Placement of REcent PhD Students

Recent Graduates

Name: Saner, Lelyn
Year: 2008
Program: Cognitive
Dissertation: Framing in the Wild: Expressions of Decisions in Real-World Situations
Position: Post-doctoral Fellow, Dynamic Decision-Making Laboratory, Carnegie Mellon University
Email: ldsaner@gmail.com
Name: Barber, Anita
Year: 2007
Program: Cognitive Neuroscience
Dissertation: Transition Frequency and Preparation: Characterizing Task Preparation and Repetition Priming with Differing Expectancy Demands
Position: Post-doctoral Fellow
Name: Harrison, Anthony
Year: 2007
Program: Cognitive
Dissertation: Spatial Updating and Reversal of the Alignment Effect: Influence of Spatial Set Size
Position: Research Associate, Advanced Artificial Intelligence Lab, Naval Research Labs
Name: Roscoe, Rod
Year: 2007
Program: Cognitive
Dissertation: Strategies for Tutor Learning: Explaining and Responding to Questions
Position: Research Associate, Institute for Software Integrated Systems, Vanderbilt University
Email: rod.d.roscoe@vanderbilt.edu
Name: Zerwas, Stephanie
Year: 2007
Program: Clinical/ Developmental
Dissertation: Imagination in Motion: Pretense Pretense Representation as Perceptual Stimulation
Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Name: Goldbacher, Edie
Year: 2007
Program: Clinical/ Health
Dissertation: Depression and the Metabolic Syndrome in Middle-Aged Women
Position: Post-doctoral Fellow, Temple University
Name: Holt, Elizabeth Clare
Year: 2007
Program: Developmental
Dissertation: Maternal Harshness and the Mother-Child Relationship in the Toddler Years: Associations with Internalizing Problems at First Grade
Position:  
Name: Kalb, Lawrence
Year: 2007
Program: Clinical
Dissertation: Screening for Recidivism in the Juvenile Justice System: Establishing Accuracy
Position:  
Name: Lenze, Shannon
Year: 2007
Program: Clinical
Dissertation: The Role of Positive Life Events on Treatment Outcome During Acute and Maintenance IPT for Recurrent Major Depressive Disorder
Position: Post-doctoral Fellow, Washington University
Name: Petersen, Karen
Year: 2007
Program: Clinical/ Health
Dissertation: Socioeconomic Status as a Correlate of Plasma IL-6 Levels: An Association that May Be Modulated by the (-174) GIC Promoter Polymorphism
Position: Staff Psychologist, Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Name: Thompson, Amanda
Year: 2007
Program: Clinical/ Developmental
Dissertation: The Long Term Effects of Treatment for Childhood Cancer on Young Adult Close Relationships
Position: Post-doctoral Fellow, Nationwide Children's Hospital
Name: Bolger, Don
Year: 2007
Program: Cognitive
Dissertation: The Development of Orthographic Knowledge: A Cognitive Neuroscience Investigation
Position: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Northwestern University
Name: Somers, Tamara
Year: 2007
Program: Clinical/ Health
Dissertation: Imagination in Motion: Pretense Representation as Perceptual Simulation
Position: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Psychiatry, Duke University
Name: Cooper, Katrina
Year: 2006
Program: Social
Dissertation: The influence of Type of Emotion Expressed, Degree of Emotion Expressed and Relationship Type on the Provision of Social Support
Position: Assistant Professor, Bethany College
Name: Troxel, Wendy
Year: 2006
Program: Clinical/Health
Dissertation: Marital Quality, Communal Strength, and Physical Health
Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh
Name: Thompson, Judy
Year: 2006
Program: Clinical
Dissertation: Pre-onset Abnormalities, Psychosocial Stressors, and the Development of Psychosis: A Prospective Population-Based Study
Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University
Name: Ringham, Rebecca
Year: 2006
Program: Clinical/Health
Dissertation: Eating Behaviors in Overweight Children of Binge Eating Mothers
Position: Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Pittsburgh
Name: Oland, Alyssa
Year: 2006
Program: Clinical/Developmental
Dissertation: Co-Occurring Internalizing and Externalizing Symptomatology in Children: The Potential Role of Sociodevelopmental Milestones
Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Children's Hospital, Los Angeles
Name: Hart, Rhiannon
Year: 2006
Program: Cognitive
Dissertation: Intentional Supression of Emotional and Visual Stimuli
Position: Assistant Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology
Name: Bleil, Maria
Year: 2006
Program: Clinical/Health
Dissertation: Negative Affectivity: A Model of Understanding Psychosocial Risk for Impairment in Cardiac Autonomic Function
Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California
Name: Beck, Joy
Year: 2006
Program: Clinical/Developmental
Dissertation: Trajectories, Antecedents, and Outcomes of Childhood Somatization in School-Age Boys
Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Psychology and Human Development Department, Vanderbilt University
Name: Wheeler, Elizabeth
Year: 2006
Program: Cognitive
Dissertation: Examining Theories of Ventromedial Prefrontal Function
Position:  
Name: van Veen, Vincent
Year: 2006
Program: Cognitive
Dissertation: Anterior Cingulate Cortex and Conflict Detection: Representational Specificity and Timing of Activation
Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Davis
Name: Overman, Amy
Year: 2006
Program: Cognitive
Dissertation: Episodic Memory Changes Associated with Aging
Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Denison University
Email: aoverman@elon.edu
Name: Janicki, Denise
Year: 2006
Program: Biological and Health
Dissertation: Chronic Stress, Inflammation, and Progression of Carotid Artery Atherosclerosis: A Mediation Model
Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Carnegie Mellon University
Name: Givannelli, Joyce
Year: 2006
Program: Clinical/Developmental
Dissertation: Face Processing Abilities in Children With Autism
Position: Postdoctoral Psychologist, The Watson Institute
Name: Ramani, Geetha
Year: 2005
Program: Developmental
Dissertation: Cooperative Play and Problem Solving in Preschool Children
Position: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Carnegie Mellon University
Name: Schonberg, Michael
Year: 2005
Program: Clinical/Developmental
Dissertation: Risk Factors For Boys' Conduct Problems Within and Across Neighborhoods' Trajectories
Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Western psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh
Name: Landi, Nicole
Year: 2005
Program: Cognitive
Dissertation: Extending and Evaluating the Semantic Deficit Hypothesis in Adult Poor Comprehenders
Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University
Name: Hausmann, Robert
Year: 2005
Program: Cognitive
Dissertation: Collaborative Problem Solving
Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center
Name: Hausmann, Leslie
Year: 2005
Program: Social
Dissertation: "Saying is Believing" and the Development of Stereotypes: The Role of Audience Size and Consensus
Position: Project Coordinator, Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Pittsburgh Healthcare System
Name: Hart, Lesley
Year: 2005
Program: Cognitive
Dissertation: Training in an Artificial Orthography: Transfer of L1 Reading Skills to L2
Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Child Study Center, Yale University
Name: Brady, Sonya
Year: 2005
Program: Clinical
Dissertation: Impact of Violence Exposure on Hostility, Physiological Inquiries, and Health in Youth
Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Health Psychology Department, University of California
Name: Smith, Wendy
Year: 2005
Program: Developmental
Dissertation: What are the Structural Characteristics that Best Predict Quality in Preschool Classrooms in Child Care Centers
Position: Project Manager at the University of Pittsburgh Office of Child Development
Name: Newell, Lisa
Year: 2005
Program: Developmental
Dissertation: The Development of the Cross-Race Effect: A Comparison of Incidental Versus Intentional Learning
Position: Postdoctoral position, Florida International University
Name: Gilliom, Michael
Year: 2005
Program: Clinical/Developmental
Dissertation: Desistance from Childhood Physical Aggression
Position: Child Clinical Psychologist and Research Associate, Family Services , Institute for Social Development, NC
Name: Tharp-Taylor, Shannah
Year: 2004
Program: Developmental
Dissertation: The Effects of Early Social Deprivation on Social and Emotional Development After Adoption from Russian Orphanages
Position: Social Behavioral Scientist, RAND Corporation
Name: Taylor, Roger
Year: 2004
Program: Cognitive
Dissertation:  
Position: Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh, Greensburg
Name: Siler, Stephanie
Year: 2004
Program: Cognitive
Dissertation: Does Tutors' Use of Their Knowledge of Their Students Enhance One-to-One Tutoring
Position: Carnegie Mellon University
Name: Robinson, Deborah
Year: 2004
Program: Social
Dissertation: Group Reactions to Risky Prospective Members
Position: Research Scientist, Army Research Institute
Name: Raynor, Douglas
Year: 2004
Program: Clinical
Dissertation: Adherence to Pharmacological Smoking Cessation Treatment among Weight-Concerned Women
Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, State University of New York at Geneseo
Name: Goldberg, Robert
Year: 2004
Program: Clinical/Developmental
Dissertation: The Distribution and Interaction of Semantic Knowledge
Position: Postdoctoral position at the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania
Name: Cho, Kwangsu
Year: 2004
Program: Cognitive
Dissertation: When Experts Give Worse Advice than Novices: The Type and Impact of Feedback Given by Students and an Instructor on Student Writing
Position: Research Associate at the Learning Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh
Name: Chain, Jason
Year: 2004
Program: Cognitive
Dissertation: Evaluating Models Working Memory: FMRI and Behavioral Evidence on the Effects of Concurrent Irrelevant Information
Position: Postdoctoral position at the Center for the Study of Brain, Mind , and Behavior, Princeton University
Name: Dietz, Laura
Year: 2004
Program: Clinical/Developmental
Dissertation: "Associations between Family Risk Factors and Toddlers' Behavior Problems and Self-regulation"
Position: Postdoctoral position at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh
Name: Biglan, Minhnoi C. Wroble
Year: 2003
Program: Developmental
Program: Health
Dissertation: "Maternal stress during pregnancy: The relation between maternal stress, gestational complications, and neonatal health"
Position: Assistant Professor, Penn State University, Beaver
E-mail: mwroble@chatham.edu
Name: Dougal, Sonya
Year: 2003
Program: Cognitive
Dissertation: "A Dual Process Approach to Emotional Memory: Effects of Emotion on Familiarity and Retrieval Processes in Recognition"
Position: Post-doctoral Research Associate, New York University
E-mail: sonya.dougal@nyu.edu
Name: Forbes, Erika Elaine
Year: 2003
Program: Clinical/Developmental
Dissertation: "Children's Emotion Regulation: Frontal EEG Asymmetry and Behavior"
Position: Postdoctoral Fellowship, WPIC
E-mail: forbese@msx.upmc.edu
Name: Mash, Holly Barbara Herberman
Year: 2003
Program: Health
Dissertation: "Complicated Grief: Extent of Relatedness and Age Similarity as Risk Factors"
Position: Contractor/Clinical Interviewer, NIH, Bethesda, MD
E-mail: hollybhm@yahoo.com
Name: McMinn, Jamie G.
Year: 2003
Program: Social
Dissertation: "Perceiver Differences and Judgments of Group Entitativity"
Position: Assistant Professor of Psychology, Westminster College (New Wilmington, PA)
E-mail: mcminnjg@westminster.edu
Name: Scherf, Kathryn Suzanne
Year: 2003
Program: Developmental
Dissertation: "Event Representations and the Acquisition of Verb Argument Structure"
Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic
E-mail: scherf@pitt.edu
Name: Affeltranger, Mark
Year: 2002
Program: Individualized
Dissertation: "An Evaluation of Cross-Adaptation and Cross-Sensitization Effects between Orally Presented Vanilloids: Use of a Dynamic Model"
Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Bethany College
E-mail: MAffelt@msn.com
Name: Ambadar, Zara
Year: 2002
Program: Cognitive
Dissertation: "The Effects of Motion and Orientation on Perception of Facial Expression and Face Recognition"
Position: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Automated Face Analysis Group, University of Pittsburgh
E-mail: ambadar@pitt.edu
Name: Balabanis, Mark
Year: 2002
Program: Clinical
Dissertation: "Depression and Smoking Relapse: An Evaluation of Nicotine Mechanisms"
Position: Post-Doctoral Psychology Fellow
Name: Forlenza, Michael J.
Year: 2002
Program: Health
Dissertation: "Relationship Between Psychological Stress and Oxidative Stress in Victims of Motor Vehicle Accidents"
Position: Post-Doctoral Fellow, UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
E-mail: michael_forlenza@med.unc.edu
Name: Garcia, Monica Mayrick
Year: 2002
Program: Clinical/Developmental
Dissertation: "The Structure and Development of Cross-domain competence in low-income African American boys"
Position: Post-doctoral Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley
E-mail: monicamgarcia2002@yahoo.com
Name: Gwaltney, Chad J.
Year: 2002
Program: Clinical/Health
Dissertation: "Examining Social-Cognitive Models of Smoking Relapse: Joint Effects of Abstinence Self-Efficacy and Positive Smoking Outcome Expectancies"
Position: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University
Name: Hlastala, Stefanie
Year: 2002
Program: Clinical
Dissertation: "Acute and Chronic Stress, Psychotherapy, and Recovery from Episodes of Bipolar Disorder"
Position: Senior Post-Doctoral Fellow, Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington (Seattle)
E-mail: shlastal@u.washington.edu
Name: Ingoldsby, Erin
Year: 2002
Program: Clinical/Developmental
Dissertation: "Neighborhood Contextual Factors and Early-Starting Antisocial Behavior"
Position: Research Scientist, Dept. of Psychology, University of Washington (Seattle)
E-mail: erinmi@u.washington.edu
Name: O'Hearn, Kirsten
Year: 2002
Program: Developmental
Dissertation: "Objects and agents: 9-month-olds' reasoning about people"
Position: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins University
E-mail: ohearn@cogsci.jhu.edu
Name: Smith, Ashley Wilder
Year: 2002
Program: Health
Dissertation: "Physical Activity as a Moderator of Distress during BRCA1/2 Genetic Testing"
Position: Cancer Prevention Fellow, NCI
E-mail: smithas@mail.nih.gov
Name: Van Dyke, Julie
Year: 2002
Program: Cognitive
Dissertation: "Retrieval effects in sentence parsing and interpretation"
Position: Post-Doctoral Researcher, Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, CT
Name: Wertz, Joan
Year: 2002
Program: Health
Dissertation: "Perceived Smoking Opportunity: Effects on Cognitive Processing of Subliminal and Supraliminal Smoking Stimuli"
Position: Assistant Professor, Monmouth College
Name: Alegre, Maria
Year: 2001
Program: Developmental
Dissertation: "The psychological status of word formation"
Position: Associate Professor, Universidad del CEMA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Name: Browning, Laura J.
Year: 2001
Program: Social
Dissertation: "Burnout as a loss of control: A new mechanism and comprehensive model explaining the burnout phenomenon in nurses"
Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, DePaul University
E-mail: Laurabrowning@juno.com
Name: Choi, Hoon-Seok
Year: 2001
Program: Social
Dissertation: "Group Receptivity to Newcomer Innovation : Effects of Prior Performance and Strategy Choice"
Position: Visiting Assistant Professor and Post-doctoral Fellow, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University
E-mail: h-choi4@kellogg.nwu.edu
Name: Escoffery, Joelle Suchy
Year: 2001
Program: Health
Program: Social
Dissertation: "Causes and Consequences of Risk Assessment"
Position: Researcher, dbaza, inc.
E-mail: joelleescoff@yahoo.com
E-mail: jescoffery@dbaza.com
Name: Hungerford, Anne
Year: 2001
Program: Developmental
Dissertation: "Maternal Sensitivity and Attachment Security as Predictors of Socioemotional Functioning at 24 and 36 Months"
Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Developmental Science, The University of North Carolina
E-mail: hungerfo@email.unc.edu
Name: Hyman, Kelly Baker
Year: 2001
Program: Clinical
Dissertation: "The Impact of Emergency Department Intimate Partner Violence Advocacy: A Longitudinal, Randomized Trial"
Position: Health Science Practitioner, Research Coordinator, Boston VAMC, Medical Psychology Service
E-mail: Khyman2020@yahoo.com
Name: MacDonald III, Angus
Year: 2001
Program: Clinical
Dissertation: "A Differential Deficit in Context Processing Associated with the Genetic Liability to Schizophrenia: A Sibling Study"
Position: Postdoc fellow in Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh
E-mail: angus3+@pitt.edu
Name: McCaffery, Jeanne
Year: 2001
Program: Clinical/Health
Dissertation: "Variability in alpha- and beta-adrenergic receptor genes as a predictor of cardiovascular function at rest and in response to psychological challenge"
Position: Associate Professor of Research, Brown Medical School
E-mail: Jeanne_McCaffery@brown.edu
Name: Myaskovsky, Larissa
Year: 2001
Program: Social
Dissertation: "Exploring the Effects of Gender Diversity on Transactive Memory in Groups"
Position: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic
E-mail: myaskovskyl@msx.upmc.edu
Name: Posluszny, Donna
Year: 2001
Program: Clinical
Dissertation: "Psychological trauma and adjustment in women newly-diagnosed with gynecologic cancer"
Position: Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine
Name: Sandak, Rebecca L.
Year: 2001
Program: Cognitive
Dissertation: "Investigating the causal relationships among speech (and non-speech) auditory perception, phonemic awareness, and reading skill"
Position: Senior Scientist, Haskins Laboratories
E-mail: sandak@haskins.yale.edu
Web: http://www.haskins.yale.edu/haskins/STAFF/sandak.html
Name: Fiore, Stephen
Year: 2000
Program: Cognitive
Dissertation: "Problem space and problem solving failure: cognitive mechanisms in the explanation of process loss in group problem solving"
Position: Visiting Research Scientist, University of Central Florida
Name: Kinder, Leslie Smithline
Year: 2000
Program: Clinical
Dissertation: "Depression as a risk factor for coronary artery disease in Type I Diabetes Mellitus: a study of possible mechanisms"
Position: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Stanford University Center for Research in Disease Prevention
Name: Marron, Maureen
Year: 2000
Program: Cognitive
Dissertation: "What is the role of lower-level processes in the reading of low-literate adults? a descriptive study and a training study"
Position: Independent Contractor, Breakthrough to Literacy, Inc., a division of McGraw-Hill Publishers
Name: Mash, Clayton
Year: 2000
Program: Developmental
Dissertation: "Developmental change in the apprehension of perceptual similarity relations among object displays varying in part structure"
Position: Staff Scientist, NICHD, Bethesda, MD
E-mail: mashc@mail.nih.gov
Name: Moore, Ginger
Year: 2000
Program: Clinical
Dissertation: "Maternal affective behavior with infant siblings: stability and change"
Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Duke University
Name: Perna, Frank
Year: 2000
Program: Health
Dissertation: "Cognitive behavioral intervention reduces injury and illness among competitive athletes"
Position: Division of Psychiatry, Boston University Medical School
Name: Gifford-Smith, Mary
Year: 1999
Program: Clinical
Dissertation: "Developmental, gender & sociometric status differences in children's teasing and aggressive behavior"
Position: Post-doctoral Associate, Duke University
Name: Grobe, James
Year: 1999
Program: Clinical
Dissertation: "The importance of controllability over drug intake in moderating the effects of tobacco smoking"
Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Kansas
Name: Kelley, Sue
Year: 1999
Program: Developmental
Dissertation: "Socialization of helplessness in toddlers: effects of maternal control, emotional climate, and depression"
Position: Assistant Professor, Psychology, Lycoming College
Name: Booth, Amy
Year: 1998
Program: Developmental
Dissertation: "Function and infant categorization"
Position: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Northwestern University
Name: Jeong, Heisawn
Year: 1998
Program: Cognitive
Dissertation: "Knowledge co-construction during collaborative learning"
Position: Assistant Professor, Hallym University, Chunchon, South Korea
Name: Katz, Gary
Year: 1998
Program: Clinical
Dissertation: "A quantitative study of vocal acoustics in emotional expression"
Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, California State University at Northridge
Name: Mahalingam, Ramaswami
Year: 1998
Program: Developmental
Dissertation: "Essentialism, power and representation of caste: a developmental study"
Position: Assistant Professor, Psychology, University of Michigan
Name: Melcher, Joseph
Year: 1998
Program: Cognitive
Dissertation: "Perceptual and conceptual expertise mediate the verbal overshadowing effect in a training paradigm"
Position: Assistant Professor, St. Cloud State University
Name: Owens, Elizabeth
Year: 1998
Program: Clinical
Dissertation: "Resilience to chronic psychosocial stressors: a longitudinal study of preschool-aged boys at risk for developing externalizing problems"
Position: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Institute of Human Development, University of California at Berkeley
Name: Waschbusch, Daniel
Year: 1998
Program: Clinical
Dissertation: "Teachers and parents as informants about conduct problems"
Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Dalhousie University
Name: Williams, Lynne
Year: 1998
Program: Developmental
Dissertation: "Three aspects of behavioral state organization in preterm infants at 32 weeks post-conceptional age"
Position: Medical school, University of Pittsburgh
Name: Bogart, Laura
Year: 1996
Program: Social
Dissertation: "The effects of stereotypes on judgment and help-seeking behavior"
Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Kent State University
Name: Kassel, Jon
Year: 1995
Program: Clinical
Dissertation: "An attention-allocation model of cigarette smoking's impact on negative affect"
Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois, Chicago
Name: Keenan, Kate
Year: 1995
Program: Clinical
Dissertation: "Developmental trajectories of girls' and boys' early problem behavior: A longitudinal study of low-income children"
Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Chicago
Name: Beach, Scott R.
Year: 1993
Program: Social
Dissertation: "Social support in the immediate aftermath of crime: Victim and support providers perceptions"
Position: Director, Survey Research Services Program, University Center for Social and Urban Research, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh
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