Faculty & Staff
Meet Our Team
Dr. Maria G. Espinosa-Hernandez
Professor & Department Chair
Primary interest: Developmental psychology and aging
Special interests: Research on sociocultural (e.g., cultural values, religion) and family factors (e.g., parenting) associated with sexuality, and mental health in Latine youth.
Teaching Lab Building 2004E
910.962.4057
hernandezm@uncw.edu
Dr. Espinosa-Hernandez's Publications
Dr. Emily L. Baxter
Assistant Professor
Primary interest: Behavior analysis
Special interest: Relapse of challenging behavior, caregiver training, ABA in schools
Teaching Lab Building 2084
910.962.2337
baxtere@uncw.edu
Dr. Katherine Bruce
Professor
Primary interests: Animal behavior and comparative cognition
Special interests: Evolutionary psychology; Learning and remembering; Behavior Analysis
Teaching Lab Building 3040
910.962.3374
bruce@uncw.edu
Dr. Tom Cariveau
Associate Professor & Graduate Coordinator
Primary interest: Applied Behavior Analysis
Special interest: Refining interventions for children with developmental disabilities; verbal behavior
Teaching Lab Building 2078
910.962.3036
cariveaut@uncw.edu
Acquisition Research Lab Website
Dr. Caroline Clements
Professor
Primary interest: Clinical Psychology
Special interests: Cognitive processes in depression, control perceptions and hopelessness, individual differences in coping, domestic violence
Teaching Lab Building 3042
910.962.7988
clementsc@uncw.edu
Dr. Dale Cohen
Professor
Primary interest: Decision science
Special interest: Numerical cognition, computational modeling.
Teaching Lab Building 3082
910.962.3917
cohend@uncw.edu
Dr. Karen A. Daniels
Associate Professor
Primary interest: Cognitive psychology
Special interests: Control of mental processes, individual differences in working memory, training of memory and attention skills
Teaching Lab Building 3094
910.962.7178
danielsk@uncw.edu
Dr. Alissa Dark-Freudeman
Associate Professor
Primary interest: Adult development, aging, and end of life.
Special interests: Self-concept, self-regulation, health and the psychology of death and dying.
Teaching Lab Building 3032
910.962.7378
freudemana@uncw.edu
Dr. Dark-Freudeman's Publications
Dr. Christine Hughes
Professor
Primary interests: Behavior analysis and behavioral pharmacology
Special interests: Behavioral and pharmacological mechanisms of drug tolerance; choice and decision making.
Teaching Lab Building 3038
910.962.7795
hughesc@uncw.edu
Dr. Anne Hungerford
Associate Professor & Undergraduate Coordinator
Primary interests: Developmental psychology
Special interests: Early socioemotional development, parenting and infant temperament
Teaching Lab Building 2004G
910.962.7586
hungerforda@uncw.edu
Dr. Julian Keith
Professor
Primary interests: Cognitive neuroscience
Special interests: Neurobiology of learning and memory; philosophy of neuroscience.
Teaching Lab Building 3030
910.962.3378
keithj@uncw.edu
Dr. Rachel A. Kohman
Professor
Primary interests: Behavioral Neuroscience
Special interests: Psychoneuroimmunology, emphasizing the neuromechanisms and regulating factors (e.g., sex, age, exercise status) of cognitive and hippocampal neurogenesis deficits associated with inflammation in a preclinical model.
Teaching Lab Building 2004D
910.962.3494
kohmanr@uncw.edu
Dr. Len Lecci
Professor & Director of Clinical Services at Memory Assessment and Research Services
Primary interests: Clinical and personality psychology
Special interests: Motivational underpinnings of mood and health related disorders; individual differences as predictors of adult mental health; juror bias
Teaching Lab Building 2072
910.962.7262
leccil@uncw.edu
Dr. Victoria Macht
Assistant Professor
Primary interests: Behavioral Neuroscience; Developmental Neuroscience
Special interests: Psychoneuroimmunology: using rodent models to untangle the role of innate immune signaling dysfunction (e.g., resulting from developmental alcohol exposure) on hippocampal circuitry and learning and memory behaviors across the lifespan
Teaching Lab Building 3036
Dr. Sally MacKain
Professor
Primary interests: Clinical psychology
Special interests: Schizophrenia, psychosocial rehabilitation, mental health treatment in correctional settings
Teaching Lab Building 2074
910.962.3732
mackains@uncw.edu
Dr. David A. MacQueen
Assistant Professor
Primary interests: Behavioral pharmacology, cognitive neuroscience, translational methods
Special interests: Cross-species task development, attention, learning, memory, pharmacogenomics
Teaching Lab Building 3090
910.962.0539
macqueend@uncw.edu
Dr. Bryan Myers
Professor
Primary interests: Forensic psychology
Special interests: Jury decision making, capital sentencing, false memories, dogmatic thinking and attitude change
Teaching Lab Building 3028
910.962.3636
myersb@uncw.edu
Jennifer Myers, M.A.
Lecturer
Primary interests: Clinical and developmental psychology
Special interests: Marriage and family therapy
Teaching Lab Building 3023
910.962.3393
myersjg@uncw.edu
Dr. Simone Nguyen
Professor
Primary interests: Cognitive development
Special interests: Categories and concepts, inductive reasoning
Teaching Lab Building 2076
910.962.7731
nguyens@uncw.edu
The Cognitive Development Lab (CDL) Website
Dr. Nora Noel
Professor
Primary interests: Clinical psychology
Special interests: Substance abuse etiology and treatment; substance use in psychiatric populations
Teaching Lab Building 3044
910.962.4044
noeln@uncw.edu
Dr. Erica C. Noles
Lecturer
Primary interests: Developmental and social psychology
Special interests: Development and measurement of racial bias, terror management theory, children's and adults' understanding of death, infants' intermodal perception of gender
Teaching Lab Building 3033
910.962.7130
nolese@uncw.edu
Dr. Kate B. Nooner
Professor & Senior Associate Dean of the College of Science and Engineering
Primary interest: Clinical child and adolescent psychology
Special interests: Trauma and adverse childhood experiences, substance use, health disparities, loneliness, neurodevelopment
Friday Hall Building 2001C
910.962.2571
noonerk@uncw.edu
Dr. Jasmine B. Norman
Assistant Professor
Primary interests: Social psychology
Special interests: Belonging and social identity; Person perception; Stereotyping and bias
Teaching Lab Building 3086
910.962.3370
normanj@uncw.edu
Dr. Todd C. Peterson
Assistant Professor
Primary interests: Behavioral neuroscience; Cellular and molecular biology
Special interests: Stroke, traumatic brain injury, and neuroinflammation
Teaching Lab Building 3096
910.962.0530
petersont@uncw.edu
Dr. Raymond C. Pitts
Professor
Primary interests: Behavioral pharmacology; Behavior analysis
Special interests: Behavioral and pharmacological mechanisms of drug action; choice and decision making
Teaching Lab Building 3092
910.962.7293
pittsr@uncw.edu
Dr. Richard S. Pond Jr.
Professor
Primary interests: Social psychology
Special interests: Aggression and violence, emotion, affiliation, social exclusion, and loneliness, self-control, statistical methods and research design
Teaching Lab Building 2080
910.962.3372
pondr@uncw.edu
Dr. Antonio E. Puente
Professor
Primary interests: Clinical neuropsychology
Special interests: Cultural neuropsychology; ethnic minorities; international psychology; policy and advocacy
Teaching Lab Building 2086
910.962.3812
puente@uncw.edu
Dr. Puente's Research Lab Website
Learn about Dr. Roger Wolcott Sperry
Dr. Eric Rawls
Assistant Professor
Primary interests: Cognition Neuroscience
Special interests: Executive function, substance use, computational modeling, EEG, and individual differences
Teaching Lab Building 3038
910.962.7841
rawlse@uncw.edu
Dr. Jessica C. Reich
Lecturer
Primary interest: Social Psychology
Special interest: Microaggressions; prejudice, stereotyping, and bias; statistical methods and research design
Teaching Lab Buiding 3006reichj@uncw.edu
Dr. Lauren Schaefer
UNCW General Psychotherapy and Assessment Clinic Director
Primary interests: Diagnosis and treatment of anxiety disorders, mood disorders, ADHD, and PTSD
Special interests: Clinical training and supervision
Note: Dr. Schaefer holds a clinical role dedicated to teaching, supervision, and directing the UNCW General Psychotherapy and Assessment Clinic, and is therefore unable to mentor students in research.
Teaching Lab Building 2092
910.962.3376
schaeferl@uncw.edu
Dr. Kaitlyn Schuler
Assistant Professor
Primary interests: Clinical Psychology
Special interests: Biopsychosocial mechanisms of suicide and co-occurring conditions, digital mental health/health technology, and meta science
Teaching Lab Building 3021910.962.7904
schulerka@uncw.edu
Dr. Schuler's ResearchGate page
Dr. Jeffrey P. Toth
Associate Professor
Primary interests: Cognitive psychology and neuroscience
Special interests: Memory and attention, cognitive control and unconscious influences, cognitive training, metacognition
Teaching Lab Building 3088
910.962.3213
tothj@uncw.edu
Dr. Carole M. Van Camp
Associate Professor
Primary interests: Applied and Translational Behavior Analysis
Special interests: Assessment and Intervention of Severe Behavior, Physical Activity, Preference and Reinforcer Assessments
Teaching Lab Building 3034
910.962.3377
vancampc@uncw.edu
Dr. Wendy Donlin Washington
Professor & Associate Dean of the Graduate School
Primary interests: Applied behavior analysis
Special interests: Substance abuse, experimental analysis of behavior, behavioral pharmacology, behavioral economics
Teaching Lab Building 3004
910.962.2453
donlinw@uncw.edu
Dr. Donlin Washington's Publications
Dr. Donlin Washington's Website
Dr. Catherine L. Williams
Assistant Professor
Primary interests: Basic and applied behavior analysis
Special interests: Stimulus control, instructional design, education
Teaching Lab Building 3084
910.962.3288
williamscl@uncw.edu
Dr. Michael Bradley
Dr. Robert Brown
Dr. Mark Galizio (Lab Website)
Dr. Lee (Andy) Jackson
Dr. Joseph M. Kishton
Dr. Kathleen Kowal
Dr. C. Sue Lamb
Dr. William H. Overman Jr.
Dr. Carol Pilgrim
Dr. D. Kim Sawrey
Dr. Carolyn Simmons
Dr. John Williams Jr.
Sonya Kelly
Administrative Specialist
910.962.4298
kellys@uncw.edu
Brooke Hebbelman
Administrative Associate
910.962.7467
hebbelmanb@uncw.edu
Rachael V. McLoud-Brophy
Undergraduate Academic Advising Coordinator
910.962.3842
mcloudr@uncw.edu
Sara Fowler
Undergraduate Academic Advisor
Deborah Lucas
Undergraduate Academic Advisor