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.
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 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.
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.
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 Professor 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 .
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: Educational psychology; multimedia-based instruction.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.

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

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The Department of Psychology Faculty

Associate Faculty

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