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Department of Psychology

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 7401, 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: Guidance and wayfinding, vision and computers, cross-modal research.
Jeffrey T. Andre

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.
Kevin J. Apple

Suzanne C. Baker
Professor and Assistant Department Head, Department 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

Teaching : Research Methods; Statistics; Social Psychology; Motivation; Positive Psychology.

Research: Motivation; goals; psychological well-being; college student success.
Kenn E. Barron

JoAnne Brewster
Professor, Department 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 .
 

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.

William (Bill) F. Evans

Pamela R. Gibson
Professor

Ph.D., University of Rhode Island
Cleveland Hall, Room 202
(540) 568-6195
gibsonpr@jmu.edu

Teaching: Abnormal Psychology; Women and Mental Health, Diversity Issues for Psychology, Psychology and Ecology.

Research: Multiple chemical sensitivities; environmental & health; women's healt;, diversity issues.
 

Joann H. Grayson
P
rofessor

Ph.D., Washington University
Miller Hall, Room 1157
(540) 568-6771
graysojh@jmu.edu

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 .
Joann H. Grayson

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.

Michael Hall

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: Educational psychology; multimedia-based instruction.
Charles M. Harris

Charles J. Huffman
Assistant Professor

Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Johnston Hall, Room 104
(540) 568-2916
huffmacj@jmu.edu

Teaching: General Psychology; Cognitive Psychology; Experimental Psychology; History of Psychology; Statistics.

Research: Problem solving; decision-making; memory.
Charles J. Huffman

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

Research: Behavioral pharmacology (effects of caffeine, nicotine, and alcohol); behavioral interventions of substance abuse; psychological mechanisms of addiction; scholarship of teaching and learning.
PHOTO: Jessica Irons

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.
Arnold (Arnie) S. Kahn

Ulas Kaplan
Visiting Assistant Professor

Ed.D., Harvard University
Miller Hall, Room 1179
(540) 568-1647

Teaching: Life-Span Human Development; Psychology and Culture; Developmental Psychology; Psychology of Personality.

Research: Moral motivation and development across cultures; emotions and morality; human motivation and psychological well-being; the study of violence.
 

Natalie Lawrence
Assistant 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 and Research Methods.

Research: Persuasion; judgment and decision making; and teaching of psychology.

Natalie Kerr

Aashir Nasim
Associate Professor

(On leave during 2007-2008)

Ph.D., Howard University
nasimax@jmu.edu

Teaching: Developmental Psychology; Life Span Human Development.

Research: Protective and risk factors for substance abuse among African Americans.

Aashir Nasim

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.
Monica Reis-Bergan

Sheena J. Rogers
Professor, Head, Department of Graduate Psychology

Ph.D., Royal College of Art , London
Johnston Hall, Room 214
(540) 568-7838
rogerssj@jmu.edu

Teaching: Sensation and Perception; Art and Psychology; Statistics; Experimental Psychology.

Research: Visual perception of spatial layout; pictorial representation of 3-dimensional space; teaching and assessment of writing.
Sheena J. Rogers

Bryan K. Saville
Assistant 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.

Bryan Saville

Sherry L. Serdikoff
Associate Professor

Ph.D., West Virginia University
Miller Hall, Room G081
(540) 568-7089
serdiksl@jmu.edu
http://www.psyc.jmu.edu/gradpsyc/bio/serdikoff.html

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
Sherry Serdikoff

Zewelanji (Zewe) Serpell
Assistant Professor

(On leave during Spring 2008)

Ph.D., Howard University

serpelzn@jmu.edu

Teaching:Developmental Psychology, Life Span Human Development, Psychology and Culture, Black/African Psychology.

Research: Sociocultural factors related to social and cognitive development and performance in schools, school-based mental health and ethnic minority youth.

PHOTO: Dr. Serpell

Michael L. Stoloff
Professor, Head, Department 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
Michael Stoloff

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.
Cheryl E. Talley

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.
Ashton D. Trice

Richard F. West
Professor, Department 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.
Richard F. West

Tracy E. Zinn
Assistant 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.

Tracy Zinn

 

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. Michele Kielty Briggs, Department of Graduate Psychology
  • Dr. Lennis G. Echterling, Director of the Counseling Psychology Programs, Department of Graduate Psychology
  • Dr. William Ernst, Department of Graduate Psychology
  • Dr. Tammy D. Gilligan, Department of Graduate Psychology
  • Dr. Gregg Henriques, Department of Graduate Psychology
  • Dr. John E. McKee, Department of Graduate Psychology
  • Ms. Kara Karr, Counseling and Student Development Center
  • Dr. Sharon Lovell, Associate Dean, College of Integrated Science and Technology
  • Dr. Jack H. Presbury, Department of Graduate Psychology
  • Dr. Craig Shealy, Department of Graduate Psychology
  • Dr. A. Renee Staton, Department of Graduate Psychology
  • Dr. James Steele, Sociology and Anthropology
  • Dr. Anne L. Stewart, Department of Graduate Psychology
  • Dr. Patricia Warner, Director of the School Psychology Program, Department of Graduate Psychology
  • Ms. Hillary Wing-Richards, Assistant Director, Sexual Assault and Substance Abuse Prevention

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

  • Dr. Wendy Borlabi
  • Mr. Hugh Brown
  • Dr. W. Mark Church
  • Dr. Kristen Davidson
  • Ms. Kim Duvall-Early
  • Ms. Andrea Falzone
  • Mr. B. Marshall Graham
  • Dr. William Hall
  • Dr. Marcus Hastings
  • Dr. Donielle Janow
  • Ms. Kara Karr
  • Ms. Jennifer Kasey
  • Ms. Katherine Luci
  • Dr. Judith Reifsteck
  • Dr. Holly Robedeau
  • Dr. Bijan Saadatmand
  • Dr. Brandon Schultz
  • Ms. Sujata Sharma
  • Dr. Michael Shutty
  • Mr. Mykal Stanley
  • Ms. Celeste Thomas
  • Dr. Pamela Throckmorton
  • Ms. Kay Walsh
  • Ms. Judy West