The Department of Psychology Faculty

The names of full time Psychology faculty who regularly teach undergraduate courses and advise undergraduate students appear below. Also listed are each faculty member's primary teaching & research areas, office location, campus telephone number, and e-mail address. For all faculty the mailing address is Name, Department of Psychology, MSC 7704, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA 22807. Faxes should include the recipient's name and can be sent to (540) 568-3322.

Craig E. Abrahamson Professor Ph.D., Union Institute and University Miller Hall, Room 1167 (540) 568-6846 abrahace@jmu.edu Teaching: General Psychology; Life-Span Human Development; Wellness Dimensions in Individual Perspectives; Sociocultural Dimensions in Community Perspectives. Research: Teaching pedagogy; post traumatic stress disorder; domestic violence; hypnosis; human diversity.
Jeffrey T. Andre Associate Professor Ph.D., Penn State University Miller Hall, Room 1163 (540) 568-1648 andrejt@jmu.edu Teaching : Sensation & Perception; Statistics; Vision & Audition (Gen. Ed.); Research Methods; Human Factors. Research: Visual perception and performance: Guidance and wayfinding, cartography, eye movements, vision and computers, cross-modal research.
Kevin J. Apple Associate Professor and Assistant Department Head, Department of Psychology Ph.D., Ohio University Miller Hall, Room 1127 (540) 568-3696 applekj@jmu.edu Teaching: Statistics; Research Methods; General Psychology; and Psychology of the Holocaust. Research: Intergroup relations; human perception; attribution theory.
Suzanne C. Baker Professor and Assistant Dept. Head, Dept. of Psychology Ph.D., University of Georgia Miller Hall, Room 1125 (540) 568-7832 bakersc@jmu.edu Teaching: Animal Behavior; Companion Animal Behavior; Primatology; General Psychology. Research: Spatial learning and foraging; environmental effects on animal behavior; attitudes towards animals; social interaction in virtual worlds; teaching in psychology.
Kenn E. Barron Associate Professor Ph.D., University of Wisconsin Miller Hall, Room 1161 (540) 568-4065 barronke@jmu.edu Website: The Motivation Research Institute. Teaching: Research Methods; Statistics; Social Psychology; Motivation. Research: Motivation; goals; psychological well-being; college student success.
JoAnne Brewster Professor, Dept. of Graduate Psychology Ph.D., McMaster University Miller Hall, Room 1151 (540) 568-6107 brewstja@jmu.edu Teaching: Abnormal Psychology, Forensic Psychology, Police Psychology. Research: Forensic psychology; personnel selection in law enforcement; personality assessment in police officers. Drs. Brewster and Stoloff maintain the web site for the Society for Police and Criminal Psychology .
David Daniel Associate Professor Ph.D., West Virginia University Miller Hall, Room 1179 (540) 568-7359 danieldb@jmu.edu Teaching: General Psychology; Developmental Psychology. Research: Cognitive development; pedagogy, teaching and learning; mind, brain and education. Managing Editor: Mind, Brain and Education Coordinator of the Society for Research in Child Development’s Teaching Institute
Kimberly DuVall Lecturer Academic Advisor for Declared Psychology Majors Miller Hall, Room 1141 (540) 568-4914 duvallkd@jmu.edu Teaching: Life-span Human Development Research: Student Development – Academic advising and college student success.
William F. Evans Associate Professor Ph.D., The University of South Carolina Miller Hall, Room 1173 (540) 568-6373 evanswf@jmu.edu http://psychweb.cisat.jmu.edu/evanswf/ Teaching: Peer Advising, Psychology of Adulthood, Psychology of Leadership, Death and Dying, Career Development. Research: Life meaning; holistic health; leadership; psychology of religion/spirituality; stress management.
Pamela R. Gibson Professor Ph.D., University of Rhode Island Cleveland Hall, Room 202 (540) 568-6195 gibsonpr@jmu.edu Class Website Research Website Teaching: Abnormal Psychology; Women and Mental Health; Diversity Issues for Psychology; Environment, Health, and Behavior; Environmental Justice. Research: Environmental sensitivities; environmental health; women's health; disabilities.
Joann H. Grayson Professor Ph.D., Washington University Miller Hall, Room 1157 (540) 568-6771 graysojh@jmu.edu Service Project Website Teaching: Clinical Psychology; Child Clinical Psychology; Child Abuse and Neglect; Field Placement. Research: Child abuse; family violence; trauma assessment. Dr. Grayson is the editor and publisher of the Virginia Child Protection Newsletter
Michael D. Hall Associate Professor Ph.D., State University of New York at Binghamton Miller Hall, Room 1115 (540) 568-7877 hallmd@jmu.edu Teaching: Vision and Audition; Sensation and Perception; Research Methods. Research: Auditory perception and cognition; speech and music perception.
Charles M. Harris Professor Ph.D., Ohio State University Miller Hall, Room 1149 (540) 568-6443 harriscm@jmu.edu http://psychweb.cisat.jmu.edu/harriscm/ Teaching: Life-Span Human Development. Research: Multimedia-based online and hybrid instruction; information literacy.
Jessica G. Irons Assistant Professor Ph.D., Auburn University Miller Hall, Room 1177 (540) 568-6565 ironsjg@jmu.edu Research Lab Website Teaching: Psychological Research Methods; Neuroscience. Research: Behavioral pharmacology (effects of caffeine, nicotine, and alcohol); behavioral interventions of substance abuse, specifically contingency management; psychological mechanisms of addiction; delay discounting and impulsivity as it relates to substance abuse and behavioral interventions; scholarship of teaching and learning.
Arnold (Arnie) S. Kahn Professor Ph.D., Southern Illinois University Miller Hall, Room 1155 (540) 568-3963 kahnas@jmu.edu Teaching: Psychology of Gender; Social Psychology. Research: Sexual assault; social psychology of gender; impact of gender on social behavior.
Ulas Kaplan Assistant Professor Ed.D., Harvard University Miller Hall, Room 1169 (540) 568-1647 kaplanux@jmu.edu Teaching: Developmental Psychology; Psychology of Personality; Life-Span Human Development; Psychology and Culture. Research: Moral motivation and development across cultures; emotions and morality; human motivation and psychological well-being; the study of violence.
Natalie Lawrence Associate Professor Ph.D., Virginia Commonwealth University Miller Hall, Room 1147 (540) 568- 2554 lawrennk@jmu.edu http://www.psyc.jmu.edu/undergraduate/etop.html Teaching: General Psychology; Statistics; Research Methods; Social Psychology, and Social Influence. Research: Social Psychology and depression; teaching of psychology.
Matthew Lee Assistant Professor Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Miller Hall, Room 1165 (540) 568-4915 leemr@jmu.edu Teaching: Life-span Human Development; Psychology and Culture Research: Psychological effects of cultural, racial, and ethnic minority status; effects of diversity coursework and extracurricular programming; racial climate and intergroup relations; influence of phenotype on individual-level well-being.
Monica Reis-Bergan Associate Professor Ph.D., Iowa State University Miller Hall, Room 1145, (540) 568-4365 reisbemj@jmu.edu Teaching: Health Psychology; Personality Psychology; Social Psychology; Addictive Behaviors. Research: Health risk behaviors and health promotion behaviors; social comparison; social images.
Bryan K. Saville Associate Professor Ph.D., Auburn University Miller Hall, Room 1143 (540) 568-2277 savillbk@jmu.edu Teaching: Introduction to Behavior Analysis; Psychology of Learning; Psychological Research Methods. Research: Experimental analysis of social behavior; behavioral decision-making; evidence-base teaching methods.
Sherry L. Serdikoff Professor Ph.D., West Virginia University Miller Hall, Room G083 (540) 568-7089 serdiksl@jmu.edu http://www.psyc.jmu.edu/gradpsyc/bio/serdikoff.html Website: The Virginia Association for Behavior Analysis. Teaching: Behavior Analysis (basic, applied, and conceptual); Research Design and Data Analysis. Research: Basic and applied behavior analysis, including: laboratory models of psychopathology (currently, AD/HD, Anxiety, Depression, & Drug Addiction); behavioral pharmacology; contingency management interventions for health behavior change; and instructional design, performance assessment, and program evaluation in education and industry
Michael L. Stoloff Professor, Head, Dept. of Psychology Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University Miller Hall, Room 1123 (540) 568-6396 stolofml@jmu.edu Teaching: Biopsychology; Senior Seminar; Biopsychology of Human Sexual Behavior. Research: Academic program development, assessment, and improvement; college student success; forensic psychology; police selection. Drs. Brewster and Stoloff maintain the web site for the Society for Police and Criminal Psychology
Cheryl E. Talley Associate Professor Ph.D., University of Virginia Miller Hall Room 1175 (540) 568-8199 talleyce@jmu.edu Teaching: Drugs and Behavior; Biopsychology; Neuroscience. Research: Behavioral pharmacology; Behavioral pharmacology; rat model for social and environmental factors on health outcomes; campus diversity initiative.
Ashton D. Trice Associate Professor, Department of Graduate Psychology Ed.D. , West Virginia University Johnston Hall, Room 209 (540) 568-8189 tricead@jmu.edu Teaching: Life-span Human Development; Developmental Psychology; School Psychology; Educational Psychology; Psychology of Film; Psychological Research Methods; History of Psychology. Research: Children's occupational aspirations; children's understanding of disease; disability and injury; adaptation to college; images of masculinity in the media.
Krisztina Varga Assistant Professor Ph.D., University of Georgia Miller Hall, Room 2171 (540) 568-4301 vargakx@jmu.edu Teaching: Life-span Human Development. Research: Cognitive development, visual attention, symbolic understanding.
Richard F. West Professor, Dept. of Graduate Psychology Ph.D., University of Michigan Johnston Hall, Room 225 (540) 568-6502 westrf@jmu.edu http://www.psyc.jmu.edu/gradpsyc/bio/westr.html Teaching: Cognitive psychology; developmental psychology. Research: Decision making, judgment, and critical thinking; reading processes.
Tracy E. Zinn Associate Professor Ph.D., Auburn University Miller Hall, Room 1171 (540) 568- 6309 zinnte@jmu.edu Teaching: Statistics; Research Methods; Industrial/Organizational Psychology; Performance Management. Research: Effective teaching behaviors; motivation as applied to university classrooms; differential effectiveness of positive and negative reinforcement; behavior-analytic approaches to social issues; and student perceptions of diversity in universities.

Associate Faculty

Members of the Department of Graduate Psychology, JMU Administrators and Staff Members who teach and/or advise students in the Department of Psychology are listed below.

Dr. Wendy Borlabi, Counseling and Student Development Center
Dr. Robert Harmison, Department of Graduate Psychology
Dr. Donielle Janow, Counseling and Student Development Center
Ms. Kara Karr, Counseling and Student Development Center
Dr. Sharon Lovell, Interim Dean, College of Integrated Science and Technology
Dr. Sheena Rogers, Department of Graduate Psychology
Ms. Celeste Thomas, Counseling and Student Development Center

Adjunct, Emeritus and Part-Time Faculty and Teaching Graduate Assistants

Craig Asselin, asselica@jmu.edu
Dr. Jim Benedict, benedijo@jmu.edu
Mr. Hugh Brown, brownhh@jmu.edu
Steven Clemer, scelmer@harrisonburg.k12.va.us
Dr. Kristen Davidson, david2km@jmu.edu
Mr. B. Marshall Graham, grahambm@jmu.edu
Dr. William Hall, hallwo@jmu.edu
Dr. Marcus Hastings, hastinmw@jmu.edu
Rebecca Lahaie, lahaierm@jmu.edu
Molly Reams, reamsmb@jmu.edu
Dr. Judith Reifsteck, reifstjb@jmu.edu
Dr. Holly Robedeau, robedehg@jmu.edu
Dr. Bijan Saadatmand, saadatbx@jmu.edu
Dr. Michael Shutty, shuttyms@jmu.edu
Jessica Spaeth, jessica.spaeth@gmail.com
Jessica Umhoefer, umhoefja@jmu.edu
Ms. Kay Walsh, walshks@jmu.edu
Ms. Judy West, westjh@jmu.edu
Ms. Hillary Wing-Richards, wingrihx@jmu.edu

Department of Psychology

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The Department of Psychology Faculty

Associate Faculty

Adjunct, Emeritus and Part-Time Faculty and Teaching Graduate Assistants