Faculty
Core Clinical Faculty
Jaime L. Anderson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Research interests include the conceptualization, assessment, and diagnosis of personality disorders, with particular focus on the use of dimensional trait models in understanding personality psychopathology. Dr. Anderson is the director of the Assessment of Personality Psychopathology Lab.
Accepting/Reviewing applications for Fall 2022 doctoral admissions: YES
Marcus Boccaccini, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
Associate Director of Clinical Training
Research interests include adversarial allegiance in expert witness opinions, agreement among forensic evaluators, field reliability and validity of procedures used in forensic assessment.
Accepting/Reviewing applications for Fall 2022 doctoral admissions: YES
Mary Alice Conroy, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor of Psychology
Clinic Director
Research interests include forensic clinical psychology, risk assessment, civil commitment evaluations.
Accepting/Reviewing applications for Fall 2022 doctoral admissions: NO
Laura E. Drislane, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Research interests include psychopathy, impulse control (“externalizing”) disorders, dimensional models of psychopathology, psychophysiology, environmental influences, under-served populations, quantitative methods, scale development and psychometrics.
Dr. Drislane is the director of the Measurement and Etiology of Externalizing Problems Lab.
Dr. Drislane is currently the faculty chair of the doctoral program Diversity Committee.
Accepting/Reviewing applications for Fall 2022 doctoral admissions: NO
Craig Henderson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology/Interim Director of Clinical Training
Research interests include family psychology, juvenile substance abuse treatment, college student alcohol use, exercise-based interventions, advanced data analytic methodology.
Accepting/Reviewing applications for Fall 2022 doctoral admissions: YES
Chelsea Ratcliff, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Dr. Ratcliff is Director of the Integrative Health Lab.
Research interests include health psychology; behavioral-and-mindfulness-based interventions; and understanding the relations among stress, physical health, psychosocial adjustment, and quality of life.
Accepting/Reviewing applications for Fall 2022 doctoral admissions: YES
Jared R. Ruchensky, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Research interests include personality disorders (particularly psychopathy), the Alternative Model for Personality Disorders, forensic psychology, and psychological assessment of constructs relevant to forensic/correctional settings.
Accepting/Reviewing applications for Fall 2022 doctoral admissions: YES
Tiffany D. Russell, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychology
My research interests involve understanding factors that predict the perpetration of general and sexual violence. I explore issues such as childhood maltreatment, juvenile delinquency, hostile masculinity, evolutionary drives, and substance use in the perpetration of violence. Additionally, I have lines of study investigating the dimensional model of personality disorders in clinical settings, under-served populations (e.g., LGBTQ+ patients), and forensic populations. Some of my work requires the development of new measurement instruments and predictive modeling, so advanced psychometric procedures are an important aspect of my laboratory.
Accepting/Reviewing applications for Fall 2022 doctoral admissions: NO
Associated Faculty Research Mentors
Hillary Langley, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Research interests include developmental psychology and children’s mental health; children’s eyewitness testimony and the impact of stress and anxiety on children’s memory for traumatic experiences; the protective effects of prosocial behaviors and emotions (e.g., empathy, gratitude) on children’s psychological well-being; and, the implementation of parental training programs focused on teaching parents how to effectively talk with their children about past stressful or traumatic experiences as well as children’s past behavioral transgressions.
Accepting/Reviewing applications for Fall 2022 doctoral admissions: YES
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Daniella Cash, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Research interests include a focus on social and cognitive psychology as it pertains to the legal system. This includes eyewitness testimony, jury decision-making, deception detection, and factors involving the recognition and perception of criminal events (e.g., instances of child grooming or sexual assault).
Accepting/Reviewing applications for Fall 2022 doctoral admissions: YES
Jorge G. Varela, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
Department Chair
Research interests include cultural and linguistic (Spanish) diversity issues in forensic psychology, particularly forensic assessment. I also maintain professional interests in law enforcement psychology as well as military psychology.
Accepting/Reviewing applications for Fall 2022 doctoral admissions: NO
Additional Associated Faculty
James Crosby, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology;
Associate Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Ramona Noland, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology