Nora Catherine Nickels; The Relationship between acute psychosocial stress, hormones, cognition, and social … Assistant to the Chair; Faculty Affairs Administrator, Provost Postdoctoral Fellow, 2019-21; Assistant Professor, 2021-. Ph.D. 2002, Dissertation: A Study of Hindu Married Couples: The Role of Family Living Arrangements and Gender in Maintaining Happiness and Well-Being, University of Connecticut, B.A. Ph.D. 2004, Dissertation:  Varieties of Young Adult Personal Theologies: Content, formative Influences, and Current Relationships to Everyday Life, Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Portland LILIA RISSMAN, LAURA HORTON, MOLLY FLAHERTY, DIANE BRENTARI, SUSAN GOLDIN-MEADOW . Ph.D. 2002, Dissertation:  The Making of the 'Culturally Competent' Psychologist: A Study of Educational Discourse and Practice, Researcher, Research and Evaluation Division, Youth Development Practice area, American Institutes for Research Her research has yielded fundamental insights into infants' social understanding and the processes that support conceptual development early in life. Editor, The International Journal of Traditional Healing and Critical Mental Health Ph.D. 2000, Dissertation:  The impact of social status on preschoolers' display of direct and ritualized responses to peer conflict, Faculty at National Louis University Anthropology Menu. Micere Keels examines how racial-ethnic inequalities in neighborhood, school, and family contexts are associated with unequal educational outcomes. Anthropology and Latin American StudiesResearch: Psychological anthropology, imagination, altered states of consciousness, dreaming, Latin America, Amazonia, Syracuse University, B.A. Laura Horton. Comparative Human Development Ph.D. 2018, Dissertation: "Somos Uma Salada de Fruta": Adolescent Achievement in Utopian Brazilian and Colombian Structures of Opportunity, Private Practice, Clinical Psychologist & Researcher New York University, B.A. The mapping from concepts to Medical AnthropologyMaster's Thesis: Present Futures: Possibilities for Selfhood at Community Mental Health Centre in Detroit, MichiganResearch: Medical anthropology, mental illness, recovery, forms of dependence, clinical ethnography, Director of the Doctor of Ministry programs, and Professor of Evangelism and Congregational Leadership at the Virginia Theological Seminary Her research interests include cognitive development, development and plasticity of spatial skills, early quantitative development, and language development and functional plasticity in children with early brain injuries. Peking University, MA Behavioral Economics and Neuroscience, Marshall University, M.S. University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh, B.S. Ph.D 1996, Dissertation:  Exploring Optimal Personality Development: A Longitudinal Study of Adolescents, Instructor in the Department of Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine With its context and life course emphasis, scholarship focuses on resiliency promotion while unpacking the sources of and contributors to human vulnerability. Ph.D. 1995, Dissertation: The social construction of extraordinary selves: A life span study of creative individuals, Psychologist with the Mediators of Texas Ph.D. 2004, Dissertation: Retrospective Reevaluation of Personally Salient Events: A Longitudinal Study, Director, The Human Factor Consulting Group Women's Studies, Manager, Medical Volunteer Programs at Chicago Event Management Rosenwald 305A Much of her research addresses the topics of the self and language, subjectivity and social change, and language socialization. Psychology, French Language and LiteratureResearch: Identity development and performance, socioemotional development, voice, self and relationships, social imaginaries, diaspora and immigration, metacultural awareness, France, Brazil, Case Western Reserve University, B.A. UK-US Fulbright Scholar (Recipient  of the Diamond Family Foundation Award)Dissertation: Intimate Rites: Localizing Queerness through Ancestral Spiritualities in Contemporary Zimbabwe (joint with Department of Anthropology).Research Interests: Socio-cultural anthropology, gender and sexuality, religion and spirituality, subjectivity, ancestors, the politics of tradition, Christianity, land and landscapes. Ph.D. 2008, Dissertation: What Makes an Intrinsically Motivated Activity Intrinsically Motivated: The Role of Challenge, Assistant Professor of Finance and Management at DePaul University Social Sciences, 75 Years of Comparative Human Development. Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Southern Methodist University Get more with UChicago News delivered to your inbox. Assistant Professor of Psychological Science at Carthage College Laura Horton. Department of Psychology, University of Chicago Chicago, IL, USA laurahorton@uchicago.edu, sgsg@uchicago.edu . Email Oliver Garland at olivergarland@uchicago.edu. Research: Sociocultural anthropology; psychological anthropology; religion and secularism; nationalism; the family and kinship; fertility and reproduction; trauma and practices of healing; production and circulation of knowledge; Republic of Ireland, Texas A&M University, B.A. Psychology and Gender Studies Ph.D. 1989, Dissertation: TV news viewers: Making meaning out of Iran Contra, B.S. Tacoma Community College, A.A. Arts and SciencesResearch: Medical and Psychological Anthropology; Science and Technology Studies; LGBTQ Health; Youth; Embodiment; United States; Gender; Public Health; Ethnographic Methods, Associate Professor Psychology, B.A. Anthropology, minors in Biology and Natural Science, Oklahoma Baptist University Ph.D. 1989, Dissertation: The contributions of arousal and mood to health and illness, University of Chicago, B.A. Ph.D. 2013, Dissertation: Moral psychology and the socialization of helping in evangelical Christian families, Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department at McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts, Duquesne University Labs: Green Hall 212-216, 222. Social SciencesMaster’s thesis: Adolescents' Self-Perceptions of Civic Involvement: Adolescents speak on the Chicago Teacher's Union strikeResearch interests: Civic engagement, civic identity formation, racial and ethnic identity, resilience, cultural psychology, political philosophy, civic education, educational stratification, New College of Florida, B.A. Professor in the Clinical Psychology Program at California Institute of Integral Studies LAURA HORTON, SUSAN GOLDIN-MEADOW . Ph.D. 1987. Ph.D. 2003, Dissertation:  The Embodiment of Social Isolation: Bio-Behavioral Systems, Pre-Disease Pathways, and Patterns of Aging, Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Brigham Young University University of Michigan, Masters degree in Social Work (MSW)Research: care work, affect, precarity, welfare states, Britain, Professor of Experimental Psychology at Idaho State University His current main interests are, a) evolution of human behavior and its biological regulation, b) 20th century European literature. In this talk, I will present an analysis of the relationship between social context and structure in homesign systems. University of Chicago, M.A. University of Chicago, M.A. Comparative Human DevelopmentDissertation Thesis: Militarizing Affection: The Making of the Military Working Dog TeamResearch interests: Medical anthropology; science and technology studies; multispecies ethnography; affect; embodiment; anthropology of the military; United States, Assistant Professor, Department of Leadership, Educational Psychology, and Foundations, Northern Illinois University Please join us for a meeting of the Language Variation & Change Workshop, this Friday, February 1 at 3:30pm, in Rosenwald 301. The list of presentations is given below (presentation info for the meetings of the sister societies and other symposiums are not yet available). Recent work has illustrated considerable regional variation across and within African Americans’ speech communities (Yaeger Dror & Thomas 2010; Wolfram 2007, 2015; Wolfram & Kohn 2015). Collection of Sun Ra: Account Book: ACT UP Chicago. Dartmouth College, B.A. Ph.D. 1994, Dissertation: Women's Definitions of Feminity: An Investigation of Social Class Differences, Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice, Indiana University at Bloomington The fifty-two Greek texts in the corpus of papyri from Elephantine are an invaluable source of information for the Late Antique community of the 3rd to the 7th centuries CE. Anthropology Labor & Social Security Laura Horton; Conventionalization of Shared Homesign Systems in Guatemala: Social, Lexical and Morphophonological Dimensions. Studies Sign Language Linguistics, American Sign Language, and Sign Languages. Part-Time Lecturer, Department of Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago, Spring 2016 Ph.D. 2012, Dissertation: The Machine Within: An Ethnography of Asperger's syndrome, Biomedicine, and the Paradoxes of Identity and Technology in the Late Modern United States, Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department at Montana State University, Billings Winter Quarter Office Hours: sign up at https://calendly.com/eraikhel. Department of Psychology, Barnard College of Columbia University New York, USA … Margaret Beale Spencer is the Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor of Life Course Human Development. Contact Prof. Mateo for Zoom link. Ph.D. 1990, Dissertation: Freud, time, and the content of philosophy. Clinical Psychologist, Private Practice University of Chicago, MA Social SciencesResearch interests: organizational sociology; causal inference; educational interventions; culture; big data, Savitribai Phule Pune University, B.A. In 1970, Laura and Mickey's marriage began to fall apart and they separated for a time, but eventually worked things out by the end of the year. Major themes in his work include development of linear and nonlinear mixed effects regression models for analysis of longitudinal data, analysis of environmental monitoring data and inter-laboratory calibration, item response theory and computerized adaptive testing, and the development of new statistical methods in pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety. Ph.D. 2002, Dissertation: Sustaining Engagement: Continuity and Change into Later Life, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Office: Haskell 324 Using in-depth life history interviews, she is writing a book on how gender shapes second-generation American Muslims’ entry and exit into Muslim communities across the life course. Licensed clinical psychologist & Applied psychological anthropologist, in-sync Affiliated Faculty member in the Department of Sociology and the Center for Higher Education Research, Teaching, and Innovation (CHERTI) at FSU; Research Affiliate of the Joint Centers for Education Research and Population Research Center at NORC at the University of Chicago Winter Quarter Office Hours: Mondays, 10:30-11:30 am; sign up at https://calendly.com/cole_chd_office_hours/20min and by appointment. Sociocultural AnthropologyUndergraduate Thesis: Psychocultural Landscapes of Hmong Polygyny: Individualism and Collectivism ReconsideredResearch interests: psychological anthropology, far-right activism, conflict, conceptions of self and other, belonging, morality, political violence, Northern Ireland, Assistant Professor, Anthropology, Saint Louis University Join Facebook to connect with Laura Horton and others you may know. The mapping from concepts to semantics is non-isomorphic, however, as particular languages categorize conceptual … Renmin University of China, M.A. Ph.D. 1998, Dissertation: Self-Image of Malaysian Adolescents, Indiana University Bloomington, BA Political Science, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures Late Antique Cultures Boston University, B.A. Friday, February 1: Betsy Pillion (UChicago) Posted on January 28, 2019 February 4, 2019 by TT. Join Facebook to connect with Horton Laura and others you may know. Dissertation: Living With Increased Risk for Breast and Ovarian Cancer: Do Religion and Spirituality Influence Health Behavior? African-American Studies Winter Quarter Office Hours: By Appointment. Woodward has pioneered the development of experimental methods to investigate social cognition in infants and young children. Michigan State, B.S. Senior Researcher at the American Institutes for Research She recently published Other, Please Specify: Queer Methods in Sociology. View the profiles of people named Laura Horton. Laura Horton's work combines ethnographic, computational and linguistic elicitation methods and engages with the fields of linguistic anthropology, developmental … Judy & Howard Berkowitz Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania Comparative Human DevelopmentResearch interests: Career and Technical Education; Sociology of education; Educational inequality; Vocationalism; Standards-based reform; Adolescent development; Identity formation; Mixed methods. Location: Stuart 105 Teaching Assistant: Laura Horton Office Hours: By appt. Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Linguistics, University of Texas-Austin Ph.D. 2018 . Horton, Laura A. login. Papers: Abraham, Alton. Comparative Human DevelopmentResearch Interests: Medical and environmental anthropology; science & technology studies; nuclear power; North America; risk and safety, Therapist, Sexuality Specialist Forensic Biology/Chemistry, University of Central OklahomaResearch interests: psychology of morbid curiosity; behavioral biology; emotion; evolution of human social behavior, Post-Doc at The University of Iowa, Carver College of Medicine Department of Psychology, University of Chicago . Ph.D. 2018. Ph.D. 1997, Dissertation: The Experience of Interdependence and Independence in the Self-Construal Asian American and Caucasian American Adolescents: Feelings, of Connectedness and Academic Motivation, CARE Parenting & Child Counseling Winter and Spring Quarter 2021: On Leave - appointments can be scheduled via e-mail. Ella Karev, UChicago . E. Summerson Carr is an Associate Professor at the School of Social Service Administration, and an affiliate of the Department of Anthropology, Comparative Human Development and the Center for Gender Studies . Ph.D. 2012, Dissertation:  Affecting Violence: Development, Religion and Indigeneity in Kandhamal, Associate at McKinsey & Company 2009, Master's Thesis: "Nothing for Us Without Us:" Local Political Responses to City-Led Strategies of Neighbourhood Revitalization, Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Oberlin College and Conservatory, Dissertation: Atheism & Orthodoxy: An Analysis of Moral Reasoning in the American Culture Wars, Adjunct Professor, Department of Cinema Arts & Science, Columbia College Chicago Brown University, M.Sc Behavioral & Social Health SciencesResearch Interests: Medical and psychological anthropology; intersectionality; gender identity constructions; sexual subjectivity and sexual health; resilience and resistance; transnationalism, cultural pluralism, and human rights. Afficher les profils des personnes qui s’appellent Laura Horton. Ph.D. 1999, Dissertation: The Rational Experiences of African-American Adolescents and the Role of Significant Adults: An Examination of Teenage Lives During the Transition to High School, Sue H. Bae, Ph.D. & Associates Ph.D. 2006, Dissertation:  The Narrative Stalemate: Conflict, Identity and the Cultural Psychology of Israeli and Palestinian Adolescence, Junior Fellow, Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts at the Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China Robert Gibbons is a statistician interested in the areas of biostatistics, environmental statistics, and psychometrics. Laura was being kept drugged so the hospital could keep milking the Horton family for money, but after Vivian Alamain was locked up with her, Laura was able to get her help and finally be released. Sociology Office: (773)834-4694 Ph.D. 1993, Dissertation:  Individual Differences in Reproductive Behaviors and Physiology in Rats, Operations Manager for the Urban Resiliency Initiative, Research Professor in the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development Michele Friedner is a social and medical anthropologist whose work examines both the category of and experience of “deafness” and “disability,” particularly in urban India. University of Chicago, M.A Social WorkResearch: Psychological anthropology, African diaspora in the Americas, Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of California Santa Cruz Ph.D. 1991, Dissertation: Narcissistic consequences of female infertility: Disruption and restoration, Neugarten Lecturer, Winter 2019: "Uncertain Times/Precarious Futures: Youth, Hope, and the Contemporary Crisis" (CHDV 23610), Bates College, B.A. Ph.D. 1992, Dissertation: Intergenerational Continuities: The Influence of Mother-Grandmother Relationships on Parenting in the African-American Young Mother Families, Research Associate Professor, School of Social Work, Portland State University, Dissertation: Manufacturing Reality: Gender, Culture, and the Resolution of Everyday Moral Conflicts, Assistant Professor of International Studies at California State University, Long Beach Laura Horton. Fax: (773) 702-0886 Office: G 504 Prerequisites: Graduate standing or advanced undergraduate (third or fourth year). University of Chicago, M.A., International RelationsResearch Interests: Postsecondary access and persistence for minority and low income students; Research methods; constructs of national identity among immigrant communities; Education policy, Clinical Psychologist at Own Practice Sociology Ph.D 2002, Dissertation: Psychological and Hormonal Responses of Men to Sensory Cues from Women (William Henry Prize), Senior Research Scientist, NORC at the University of Chicago Laura Horton (UChicago) Categories: Conferences/Lectures, Workshops: Persons with disabilities who need an accommodation in order to participate in this event should contact the event sponsor for assistance. As a sociocultural and linguistic anthropologist who conducts ethnographic studies of social work and allied professions, Professor Carr seeks to highlight what is fundamentally cultural about professional practices and organizations. Social SciencesResearch interests: sociocultural and medical anthropology; memory; trauma; generations; youth; Rwanda. Rosenwald 305B M.A. Political Science, Minor in Language Studies (American Sign Language) Ph.D. 1982, Dissertation: Cooperation, Competion and Altruism Within Twin Sets: A Reappraisal. Educational Leadership & PolicyResearch Interests: teacher development and retention, developmental psychology, youth political participation, critical pedagogy, school systems, Adjunct Instructor in the Department of Criminal Justice, Indiana University at Bloomington Ph.D. 1991, Dissertation: The Cultural Psychology of Christmas and Easter-with Special Reference to Children, Associate Dean for Leadership Development for the Full-Time MBA Program, University of Chicago, Dissertation: Regulatory Focus in the Context of Work: The Social Impact of Promotion Tactics, Research Associate, Gehl Institute, New York City Rosenwald 318B Read more about Susan Levine on her Department of Psychology profile page. Rosenwald 305D Her current work investigates infants' sensitivity to interpersonal social structure, the effects of cultural and community contexts in shaping children's social learning strategies and the neural processes involved in early social-cognitive development. As a result of her resounding success at work, she was promoted and continues proactively managing her health with the help of her cancer care team at UChicago Medicine Ingalls Memorial.. Ph.D. 2017, Dissertation: From Mask to Mirror: Self as Object in Chinese Psychology, China Agricultural University, B.A. Professor at the Graduate School of Intercultural Communication Major in Intercultural Communication, Hosei University Psychology Political Science University of Chicago, M.A. Search Personalize. Ph.D. 2016, Dissertation: Translating Girl's Empowerment: Gender, Adolescence, and Transnational NGOs in Urban Uganda, Frank J. McLoraine Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Linguistics and the College, Phone: (773) 702-8531 Research and intervention efforts are framed by her human development theoretical framework—phenomenological variant of ecological systems theory (PVEST); it is unique from historical perspectives in its inclusiveness of life course developmental processes salient to all humans irrespective of their societal position of status and power. Eugene Raikhel is a cultural and medical anthropologist with interests encompassing the anthropology of science, biomedicine and psychiatry; addiction and its treatment; suggestion and healing; and post-socialist transformations in Eurasia. University of Chicago, M.A. Ph.D. 2018. The Divinity School President and CEO, Integrative Psyche Services, S.C. Ph.D. 2012, Dissertation: Psychotherapy Between Two Cultures: A Portrait of Psychotherapists in Egypt, Rosenwald 318J Psychology with minors in Biology, Chemistry, and Neuroscience Fax: (773) 834-0924. Ph.D. 1999, Dissertation: Vicissitudes of Hope in the Lazarus Effect: Psychological Responses of HIV-Positive Gay Men in the Post Era of HIV and AIDS, Clinical Psychologist at Aandrus Medical Center How UChicago’s carillonneur finds inspiration during the pandemic In-person classes, non-essential activities canceled Feb. 15-16 due to extreme weather At least 50% of COVID-19 infections come from people who aren’t showing symptoms, study finds Newsletter. Division of the Humanities, 1115 E. 58th Street Laura Horton est sur Facebook. University of Chicago, M.A. Associate Professor, Anthropology, Washington State University, Dissertation: Control in a World of Change: Emotion and Morality in a Northern Thai Town, Senior Research Associate, Clinical Outcomes Solution Winter Quarter Office Hours: Fridays, 11:30 am-12:30 pm. I thank all of my many collaborators for studying homesign with me since the 1970s and for making it fun: Heidi Feldman, Lila Gleitman, Carolyn Mylander, Diane Brentari, Anastasia Giannakidou, Annie Senghas, Marie Coppola, Molly Flaherty, Natasha Abner, Savi Namboodiripad, Asli Ozyurek, Elizabet Spaepen, Laura Horton, Lilia Rissman, Dea Hunsicker, … Ph.D. 2007, Dissertation: The "Business" of Culture: Morality and Practice in Islamic Finance, Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, Washington University Ph.D. 2004, Dissertation:  Cultural processes of psychosocial competence and middle childhood: Play, self-esteem, and teamwork in two distinct impoverished communities, Northeastern Illinois University, B.A. Dario Maestripieri is a Professor in Comparative Human Development and is also affiliated with the Stevanovich Institute on the Formation of Knowledge. Currently she works on two Chicago-based studies of neighborhood context and older adult health, and is examining the role of the social and physical environment in older adult well-being with the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project. English, Political Science Ph.D. 2017, Dissertation: Making Monks, Making Men: The Role of Buddhist Monasticism in Shaping Northern Thai Identities, Associate Professor, Department of Child Psychology and Education, Sungkyunkwan University Days of our Lives Spoilers: Laura Horton Dead – Gwen Rizczech in Trouble. Ph.D. 1996, Dissertation: Different Habits, Different Hearts: Orthodoxy and Progressivism in the United States and India, Senior Researcher at Huge Inc. Back to main calendar. Zhejiang University, B.Mgmt. More specifically, her work to date examines how culturally rooted ideas about language and personhood shape clinical interventions and social welfare administration, which in turn, refine these ideas by processing people and problems in accordance with them. She also focuses on the validity of such measures and the development of new neighborhood-based metrics that reflect the perceptions and experiences of older residents. Ph.D. 2003, Dissertation: Kerala Sound Electricals: Amplified sound and cultural meaning in South India, Psychologist at Human Genetics Cambridge University, B.A. In addition to its current US focus, collaborations that focus on conditions of inequality include South Africa, Kosovo, Cuba, and Australia. University of California, Berkeley, M.A. Sydney Hans is a Professor at the School of Social Service Administration. Eman Abdelhadi is a multi-method sociologist interested in religion, gender, identity, and demography. Professor Cagney's work examines social inequality and its relationship to health with a focus on neighborhood, race, and aging and the life course. Ph.D. 1998, Dissertation: Art imitates life imitates art: Evolving themes in the lives and works of creative artists, Northwestern University, B.S. Psychology, NeuroscienceResearch: early childhood education; socio-emotional development; cognitive development; early experience; stress/adversity; home environment; cross-cultural studies, Lucy Flower Professor in Urban Sociology and Chair, Department of Sociology. Ph.D. 2010, Dissertation: Re/conceiving Personhood: The Localization of Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Mexico City, Mount Holyoke College, B.A. Archaeology & Anthropology Comparative Human DevelopmentResearch interests: educational psychology; cognition and emotion; emotion regulation; anxiety; pressure; mathematics learning; STEM achievement gaps. Ph.D. 1990, Dissertation: Parental burden and a chronically mentally ill offspring's vocational outcome: Exploring the connections, Vice President of Product Development at Kindermusik International Anthropology LAURA HORTON, SUSAN GOLDIN-MEADOW . My research of the past twenty years has been primarily on morphosyntactic and semantic characteristics of Gullah, African-American Vernacular English, Jamaican Creole, and English. Inscrivez-vous sur Facebook pour communiquer avec Laura Horton et d’autres personnes que vous pouvez connaître. Her research focuses on Africa - specifically the island of Madagascar - and the legacy of Madagascar's colonial and now post-colonial encounter with France. Owner, Sarah Dunn Medical Counseling and Consulting, LLC, Driggs, ID Winter Quarter Office Hours: Mondays, 12:30-1:30 pm. Ph.D. 2013, McGill University, B.A. Ph.D. 2013, Dissertation: New Perspectives on Dolphin Whistles: Evaluating Signal Context, Categorization and Memory, Clinical Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Northwestern University Ph.D. 2017, Dissertation: Insanity, Intimacy, and Institution: Governance and Care Under the Mental Health Legal Reform in Contemporary China. University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh, M.S. Dissertation: Going the Cultural Distance: Worldview-relevant counseling at India's Premiere Psychiatric Institute, Assistant Professor in the Research Methodology Program of the Department of Psychology in Education, University of Pittsburgh Psychology and Anthropology University of Chicago, M.A. Ph.D. 2008, Dissertation: Psychiatry, Modernity and Family Values: Clenched Teeth Illness in North India, University of Chicago, A.M. School of Social Service Administration Laura Horton's work combines ethnographic, computational and linguistic elicitation methods and engages with the fields of linguistic anthropology, developmental … She is currently working on a historical sociology book project titled Conceptualizing Agnes: Exemplary Cases and the Disciplines of Gender. Jennifer Cole's work addresses the substantive topics of memory and forgetting, youth and generational change, gender, sexuality and transnational kinship. Department of Psychology, … Associate Professor, Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology and Special Education, Michigan State University Ph.D. 2013. Ph.D. 1990, Dissertation: Sibling conflict in early adolescence, Associate Professor; Director, Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies, Rosenwald 318C Ph.D. 1994, Dissertation: Meetings on the Horizon of Meanings: A Cultural Analysis of Adolescents "Reading" AIDS, Dissertation: Experience, Values, Beliefs, and the Sociocultural Context In Gambling Decision Making: A Field Study of Casino Blackjack, Professor of Psychology, Montgomery College Ph.D. 1988, Dissertation: The Interactions Between Sexual Behavior and Thermoregulation in the Male Rat, Department of Psychology, Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences, International Islamic University Malaysia Ph.D. 1991, Dissertation: Patients' experiences of therapeutic support early in treatment: The effects of current social network, general expectations, and anticipated difficulties on patients' evaluations and response to individual psychotherapy, Professor of Psychology, Saginaw Valley State University