Advising

Below is a list of departmental faculty who have chaired theses for clinical psychology graduate students in the past. If you are planning to conduct a thesis, it is strongly recommended that you identify, in your personal statement, the faculty member with whom you want to work. You should also contact that faculty member in advance of applying to determine whether s/he will be taking on students and to discuss your research interests. While the goal is to permit students to conduct research in their area of interest, this may not always be possible (i.e., if the faculty member with whom the student wants to work is not taking new students). In this case, the student will be helped to find a suitable, alternative, thesis chair. 

Psychology Faculty Who Chair Thesis Committees for the Clinical Program

faculty name	topic areas
Bryan Devan, Ph.D./ Mark Chachich, Ph.d.	Aging, Animal Behavior, Cognition, Evolutionary Psychology, Learning, Limbic System, Memory, Music, Neuroanatomy, Neuropsychology, Neurotoxicology, Psychopharmacology, Statistics and Methodology, Treatment (Neurodegenerative Disease and Age-Related Cognitive Decline)
Christina Dardis, Ph.D.	Interpersonal violence especially among college students; PTSD
Erin Girio-Herrera	Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychology
Kerri Goodwin, Ph.D.	False memory, social factors in eyewitness memory, applied memory research
Elizabeth C. Katz, Ph.D.	Addictions, Contingency Management, Clinical Trials, Criminal Justice, Smoking, Memory, Expectancies, Treatment Outcome (Substance Abuse/Dependence, Human Behavioral Pharmacology), Treatment Engagement, Brief Interventions
Sandra Llera, Ph.D.	Generalized Anxiety; Emotion; Multicultural Issues/Diversity; Psychophysiology; Treatment (Anxiety Disorders)
Jonathan Mattanah, Ph.D.	Attachment, Family, Transition to College/Adjustment
Geoff Munro, Ph.D.	Decision-Making, Persuasion, Prejudice, Self-Serving Biases, Social Cognition
Matthew Mychailyszyn, Ph.D.	Anxiety and Depressive Disorders in youth; Meta-Analysis; Treatment (youth internalizing disorders); Pediatric Feeding Disorders; Behavior Management & Parent Training
Christa Schmidt, Ph.D.	Health Psychology, Mind/Body Connection, Positive Psychology, Career Development
Kim Shifren, Ph.D.	Caregiving
Evangeline Wheeler, Ph.D.	Cognition, Women and Race, Memory, Mind/Body, Multicultural Issues, Social Class, Statistics and Methodology, Stress

All psychology faculty members are available to serve as thesis advisors. Please click here to see a complete list of the psychology faculty and their research interests.