Postdoctoral Fellows
Max Owens, Ph.D., served as a doctoral fellow from 2013-2016. He left the lab to join the faculty in the Department of Psychology at the University of South Florida, St. Petersburg.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg
Graduate Students
Kiera James, Ph.D., 2021
Dissertation: “Physiological, affective, and neural responses to interpersonal stimuli in adolescents who engage in non-suicidal self-injury”
Current position: Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh
Cope Feurer, Ph.D., 2020
Dissertation: "Attentional biases and individual differences in adolescent stress reactivity"
Current Position: Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina School of Medicine
Aliona Tsypes, Ph.D., 2020
Dissertation: "A fine-grained EEG/ERP examination of reward processing in suicide attempters"
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh
Anastacia Kudinova, Ph.D., 2018
Dissertation: “Association between the magnitude of the immune response and major depressive disorder in humans and depression-like behaviors in animals”
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior (Research), Brown University
Mary Woody, Ph.D., 2017
Dissertation: “Using steady-state visual evoked potentials to evaluate selective attention toward emotional stimuli in remitted depressed women: Impact of a negative mood induction, brooding rumination, and heart rate variability”
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh
Katie Burkhouse, Ph.D., 2016
Dissertation: “Neural and physiological indices of emotional reactivity in adolescent depression”
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Pennsylvania State University
Andrea Hanley, Ph.D., 2016
Dissertation: “Self-injurious thoughts and behaviors in youth: Rates and correlates”
Current Position: Private Practice, Boynton Beach, Florida
Donna Crossman, Ph.D., 2015
Dissertation: "Visual attention to emotional stimuli in individuals high on psychopathic traits: Evidence from eye tracking"
Current position: Coordinator and Clinical Psychology Intership rotation supervisor in the Veterans Integration to Academic Leadership (VITAL) Program at the Jesse Brown VA, Chicago, IL
Lindsey Stone, Ph.D., 2013
Dissertation: “Risk for adolescent depression: Gender differences and contagion in peer networks”
Current position: Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Georgia Southern University
Ashley Johnson Harrison, Ph.D., 2012
Dissertation: “Attentional biases in children with depression”
Current position: Associate Professor and Program Coordinator, Department of Educational Psychology, University of Georgia
Sarah Crossett Barnum, Ph.D., 2009
Dissertation: “Interpersonal and cognitive risk factors for postpartum depression”
Current position: Assistant Professor, Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine
Jessica Benas, Ph.D., 2009
Dissertation: “Cognitive biases in depression and eating disorders”
Current position: Director of Psychology Continuing Education, Rutgers University
Dorothy Uhrlass, Ph.D., 2009
Dissertation: “Children’s self-perceived competence and changes in depression and social anxiety”
Current position: Private practice, West Hartford, Connecticut
Peggy Andover, Ph.D., 2006
Dissertation: “Self-mutilation and suicide attempts in psychiatric inpatients”
Current position: Professor and Chair, Department of Psychology, Fordham University
Project Coordinators
Holly Kobezak, B.A., served as a project coordinator from 2019-2021. She left the lab to pursue her Ph.D. in clinical psychology at Northern Illinois University.
Nathan Hall, B.A. served as a project coordinator from 2015-2016. He left the lab to pursue his Ph.D. in clinical psychology at Pennsylvania State University.
Cope Feurer, B.S., served as a project coordinator from 2013-2015. She left her position as a project coordinator, but is staying in the lab to pursue her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at Binghamton University.
Effua Sosoo, B.A., served as a project coordinator from 2013-2015. She left the lab to pursue her Ph.D. in clinical psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Eric Funk, B.A., served as a project coordinator from 2013-2015. He left the lab to pursue his B.S. in Nursing from Binghamton University.
Devra Alper, B.A., served as a project coordinator from 2012-2014. She left the lab to pursue her M.A. in Occupational Therapy from the University of Pittsburgh.
Mike Van Wie, B.S., served as a project coordinator from 2011-2013. He left the lab to pursue his M.A. in Psychology from San Diego State University.
Sydney Meadows, B.A., served as a project coordinator from 2010-2013. She left the lab to pursue her B.S. in Nursing from Binghamton University.