Available Faculty Mentors:

We encourage students interested in working with specific faculty to contact them in advance of submitting an application. Any of our research faculty can serve as mentors for our experimental psychology masters program. It is recommended that you review faculty profiles here, and reach out to individuals whose research areas most closely align with your interests. We recommend reaching out to faculty ahead of applying to the program, and we also recommend listing specific faculty you’d like to work with in your statement of purpose. We are no longer accepting applications into our clinical psychology masters program as of March 2025. The following faculty in each area of study are considering applications for admissions in the upcoming cycle (deadline December 1, 2026 for admission Fall 2027). 

· Behavioral Neuroscience Concentration:

• Dr. Rodolfo Flores Garcia – PhD & MA – (Faculty Profile)
• Dr. Laura O’Dell – PhD & MA – Neural Basis of Substance Use Lab
• Dr. Katherine Serafine – PhD & MA – Behavioral Pharmacology Lab
• Dr. Chris Tschumi – PhD – (Faculty Profile)

· Bilingualism, Language and Cognition Concentration:

• Dr. Ashley Bangert – PhD – Cognition, Aging, and Timing (CAT) Lab
• Dr. John Begeny – PhD – Faculty Page
• *Dr. Carla Contemori – PhD & MA – Language Acquisition Lab
• Dr. Wendy Francis – PhD – Bilingual Cognition Laboratory
• *Dr. Natalia Mazzaro – Language Acquisition & Linguistics Research Lab
• Dr. Christine Potter – PhD – Children’s Learning Project (Proyecto Aprendiendo en la Niñez)
• *Dr. Annie Tremblay – PhD & MA –Bilingual Speech Lab

· Legal Concentration:

• Dr. Quintan Crough – PhD – Interview Lab
• Dr. Jennifer Eno Louden – PhD – Mental Health and Criminal Justice Lab
• Dr. Krystia Reed – PhD – Legal Decision Lab

· Health Concentration:

• Dr. Theodore Cooper – Prevention and Treatment in Clinical Health (PATCH) Lab
• Dr. Craig Field – PhD & MA – Latino Alcohol & Health Disparities Research Center
• Dr. Mitchell Kirwan – PhD & MA – Sexual Violence and Emotion Regulation (SEVER) Lab
• Dr. Osvaldo Morera – HAPPY JDM

· Social/Cultural Concentration:

• *Dr. Melissa Baker – Political Engagement and Cognitive Health Lab
• Dr. Goran Pavlov – PhD & MA – Employee Psychology and Assessment Lab
• Dr. Hannah Volpert-Esmond – PhD – Race, Ethnicity, Neuroscience, and Health (RENH) Lab
• Dr. Karen Wetzel – PhD – WETSL Lab

Key:

• PhD = accepting PhD students
• MA = accepting MA students
• PhD & MA = accepting students in both programs
• * = Faculty member is affiliated outside the Psychology Department but is eligible to serve as a mentor in the Psychology PhD program.

Information about applying to graduate school on Dr. Krystia Reed's Legal Decision Lab blog:

Should I Go To Graduate School?

How to Apply to Graduate School

Psychology Graduate Program Information Session

October 8th, 2021

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