Faculty

Core Faculty

Steven J. Danish
Professor; ABPP, Director, Life Skills Center, Ph.D., Michigan State University.
Developing, implementing and evaluating life skills programs for youth, adults and families, especially returning veterans and their families; using sport to teach life skills internationally; community psychology; health and nutrition.

Kathleen M. Ingram
Associate Professor; Ph.D., The Ohio State University.
Interpersonal factors in adjustment to negative life events, particularly health stressors; psychology of women; training issues in professional psychology.

Suzanne E. Mazzeo
Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Illinois.
Eating disorders and obesity; health behavior change, especially changing eating and exercise behaviors; ethnic differences in eating and exercising behaviors, and developing culturally competent interventions to promote healthy eating and exercising behaviors.

Micah L. McCreary
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Virginia Commonwealth University.
Family psychology and family therapy with a focus on culture, parenting and gender relationships; applied psychological interventions and community psychology.

Victoria A. Shivy
Associate Professor; Ph.D., University at Albany, State University of New York.
Interventions that foster career decision-making, adjustment, and career-related transitions; career-related reentry of offenders; impact of previous trauma on workplace adjustment; career and general psychological assessment; research methodology.

Marilyn Stern
Professor with joint appointment, Department of Pediatrics; Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo.   
Child health psychology; adolescents coping with cancer, communication, and transition to survivorship; developing interventions to reduce childhood and adolescent obesity and the vulnerable child syndrome.

Shawn O. Utsey
Professor; also chair, African American Studies; Ph.D., Fordham University.  
Racism, racial identity, culture-specific coping mechanisms, and quality of life, particularly how these constructs relate to the African American experience.  

Everett L. Worthington Jr.
Professor and Former Chair, Department of Psychology; Ph.D., University of Missouri.
Forgiveness; positive psychology; marriage and marital interventions; religious values.

Affiliate Faculty

Jean Corcoran
Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Virginia Commonwealth University.
Processes of therapeutic interventions, linguistic analysis, substance abuse, couples and group therapy.

Leticia Y. Flores
Assistant Professor, and Director of the Center for Psychological Services and Development; Ph.D., UT Southwestern School of Biomedical Sciences.
Chronic pain management; gender, sexual and ethnic identity development and related psychotherapy issues.

Emeritus Faculty

Stanley R. Strong
Professor Emeritus; Ph.D., University of Minnesota.
Interpersonal behavior; social psychological processes in counseling and psychotherapy.

Robert M. Tipton
Professor Emeritus; Ph.D., University of Missouri
Ethical and training issues; psychological assessment.