Faculty & Staff
Tenure-Track Faculty
Patrick Neil Beymer
Asst Professor, Psychology
3264 CLIFTCT
Adam Carle
Professor-Affiliate, Psychology
Childrens Hospital Bldg R
Tony P Chemero
University Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy and Psychology , Psychology
5255 CLIFTCT
Currently, Tony is University Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy and Psychology at the University of Cincinnati (UC), and a primary member of both the Center for Cognition, Action, and Perception and the Strange Tools Research Lab. His research is both philosophical and empirical; typically, it tries to be both at the same time. He focuses on questions related to nonlinear dynamical modeling, ecological psychology, complex systems, phenomenology, and social cognition. He is the author of more than 100 articles and the books Radical Embodied Cognitive Science (2009, MIT Press) and, with Stephan Käufer, Phenomenology (2015, Polity Press; second edition, 2021). He is currently writing a book tentatively titled Intertwinings: The embodied cognitive science of self and other (Columbia University Press). His first book was a finalist for the Lakatos Prize for Philosophy of Science. He has recently received the University Distinguished Research Award, the Latino Faculty Association Excellence in Research Award , and the Rieveschl Award for Scholarly Achievement at UC.
For more information, see Tony's pages at academia.edu or google scholar
Chung-Yiu Peter Chiu
Associate Professor of Psychology and Communications Sciences and Disorders, Psychology
3272 CLIFTCT
C.-Y. Peter Chiu is an Associate Professor in Psychology with a secondary appointment in the Dept. of Communication Sciences and Disorders. He graduated from the University of Toronto (B.Sc., M.A.) and Harvard University (PhD), with training in cognitive neuroscience. His work focuses on the neural mechanisms of a variety of cognitive domains including risky decision making, behavioral economics and consumer behaviors, executive functions, social cognition, and attention, memory and language. At UC, he has taught a variety of courses such as Choice and Decision Making, Research Methods in Cognition, and Cognition.
Donna Chrobot-Mason
Associate Professor, Psychology
4130J EDWARDS 1 Edwards Center
Sarah E. Cummins-Sebree
Assistant Professor, Volunteer, Psychology
101 BA FLORY
Currently, Sarah Cummins-Sebree’s research focuses on development of postural control and other aspects of perception in children, as well as self-regulated learning in college students. She primarily teaches the Human Development sequence.
Tehran Jespah Davis
Assistant Professor, Psychology
4150M EDWARDS 1 Edwards Center
Anjali Nichole Dutt
Assoc Professor, Psychology
4130C EDWARDS 1 Edwards Center
Jeffery N. Epstein
Professor-Affiliate, Psychology
2216 Childrens Hospital Bldg R
Jeffery Epstein’s research focuses on ADHD-related cognitive deficits, examining the efficacy of pharmacological, behavioral, and cognitive treatments for patients with ADHD, and the promotion of evidence-based ADHD care in community settings.
Stacie F Furst-Holloway
Assoc Professor, Psychology
3260 CLIFTCT
Jay Holden
Associate Professor | CAP Affiliate, Psychology
3232 CLIFTCT
Farrah Jacquez
Associate Professor, Psychology
3216 CLIFTCT
Kristen Elizabeth Jastrowski Mano
Associate Professor, Psychology
5130D EDWARDS 1 Edwards Center
Her teaching interests include health psychology, child psychopathology, measurement, and clinical supervision.
Research website: https://sites.google.com/view/uccahrl/home
Heidi Kloos
Associate Professor, Psychology
3256 CLIFTCT
Tamara Lorenz
Psychology-Mechanical Engineering-Electrical Engineering (jointly appointed), Psychology
3213 CLIFTCT
Quintino Rodrigues Mano
Associate Professor, Psychology
3253 CLIFTCT
Lab website
Monica Johnson Mitchell
Co-Director, Community Engagement Core, Co-Director of INNOVATIONS , Psychology
EDWARDS 1 Edwards Center
Monica Mitchell’s research investigates child and family coping with chronic illness, and their relation to health status and outcomes, particularly in African-American populations. She also conducts community engagement projects with schools and non-profit agencies to ensure evidence-based practice related to mental health, obesity and school readiness.
Paula K. Shear
Professor & Head , Psychology
3250 CLIFTCT
Kevin Shockley
Professor, Psychology
3214 CLIFTCT
Paula L. Silva
Dr., Psychology
3212 CLIFTCT
I study human performance, both functional and dysfunctional, from the perspectives of complexity science and ecological psychology. My research primarily focuses on (a) the action strategies that individuals of different ages, with and without pathological conditions, employ when performing a variety of tasks, and (b) the perceptual capabilities that supports adaptability of action strategies to particular circumstances. I have three complimentary aims. The first is to examine and advance general theoretical principles to explain the coordination and perceptual regulation of biological movement that support successful performance in diverse circumstances. The second is to reveal and explain changes in action coordination and perceptual capabilities associated with pathological conditions. The third is to apply these principles in the design of methods to assess and enhance resilience of individuals with movement-related disability and those at risk for sports injury. My overarching goal is to promote effective cross-fertilization between theory and clinical practice in the fields of rehabilitation and sports medicine.
Complete list of Journal Publications:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=list_works&gmla=AJsN-F4CL3SrNy-iuSs5Alrk3OIvDRJyO6g0425q3xOwib09l8oZuCyFj6trqtE2ih84Yr_PXU2qhJk6m_AzKfgdeaAI7dnnZMnAKj4tMbYyrhHmA_RAoRU&user=z9FExgcAAAAJ
Matia B Solomon
Assoc Professor, Psychology
3251 CLIFTCT
Cathy Christine Stough
Assoc Professor, Psychology
3254 CLIFTCT
To learn more about research projects being conducted in the Healthy Bearcat Families Lab, please visit the lab website at: https://sites.google.com/view/odarcc-healthy-kids-lab/home
Carlie D. Trott
Assoc Professor, Psychology
3258 CLIFTCT
Climate change is increasingly recognized among the most critical challenges facing humanity. The health and well-being of individuals and societies are inextricably linked to perturbations in the natural environment, and the consequences of climate change are now visible across the globe. The effects of a rapidly changing climate will be universal—affecting everyone on the planet—but unequal, disproportionately impacting the world’s most vulnerable and marginalized. Despite its scientific foundations in physical processes of the atmosphere and its primary impacts on earth systems, the causes and consequences of climate change, as well as its solutions, are profoundly social and psychological. Moreover, despite being a global phenomenon, climate change impacts and solutions are profoundly local in the sense that they are shaped—geographically and socially—by the communities within which they take place, requiring community engagement to respond to threats, build resilience, and spur societal transformation to sustainability.
An important avenue towards reducing climate change risk and vulnerability is to center the perspectives and experiences of historically and persistently excluded groups (e.g., Communities of Color; youth; older adults) who are disproportionately impacted by climate change. As a social-community psychologist, community-engaged researcher, and action-oriented scholar, my research draws upon interdisciplinary theories and frameworks and uses a variety of methods to advance climate justice through the deliberate and substantive participation of marginalized groups in climate change dialogue, decision-making, and action. Broadly speaking, my research program addresses climate justice and environmental sustainability across three primary domains: (1) Community-Led Climate Justice Action; (2) University-Community-Policy Partnerships for Sustainable Futures; and (3) Psychologies for Climate Justice.
Methodologically, my research is guided by the question, “What types of research approaches contribute to enabling—or enacting—transformative social change?”, or put differently, “How can we, as researchers, best position ourselves to bring about a more just and sustainable world through our methodological choices?” In this area, my current research explores the concept and practice of Prefigurative Methodologies, or applying means-ends consistency (i.e., “being the change”) in research and collaboration. Much of my work revolves around broad inclusivity, democratic engagement, reflective practice, methodological creativity, and social and environmental action.
I teach undergraduate and graduate-level courses in UC’s department of psychology, and I advise psychology doctoral students in UC’s Community and Organizational Research for Action (CORA) program. (I do not advise students in UC's Clinical Psychology program.)
Dieter Frans S. Vanderelst
Biology-Mechanical Engineering-Electrical Engineering-Psychology (jointly appointed), Psychology
820G Rieveschl Hall
Shari Wade
Professor-Affiliate, Psychology
216 Childrens Hospital Bldg R
Paris Bryanne Wheeler
Asst Professor, Psychology
EDWARDS 1 Edwards Center
Sarah W Whitton
Professor, Psychology
3215 CLIFTCT
Educator Faculty
Megan Church Church-Nally
Assistant Professor- Educator, Psychology
3266 CLIFTCT
Dr. Church-Nally worked outside of academia for five year as a compensation consultant for five years at Mercer. She was the research associate on the Bridging the Talent Gap initiative in 2015, which sought to minimize the gap between employers’ needs and employee’s skill set in numerous cities. She has served as a statistical consultant for numerous dissertations and theses. She previously taught as an adjunct at Bellarmine University, St. Catherine College, Spalding University, and University of Louisville. Dr. Church-Nally also taught for the U.S Army in the University of Louisville and US Army partnership, where she earned a ROTC medal of Excellence. She also conducted several site visits of military universities during this time.
Dr. Church-Nally is heavily involved with service learning at UC. She won the Jack Twyman Award for Service Learning in 2020 and has been nominated for Cohen Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2020 and 2022.
Marlow Dae Davis
Assistant Professor Educator, Psychology
3235 CLIFTCT
M. Sima Finy
Assistant Professor Educator, Psychology
3268 CLIFTCT
Erinn Leary Green
Associate Professor, Educator, Psychology
3263 CLIFTCT
Marla I. Hall
Dr., Psychology
Dr. Hall received her Ph.D. in Psychology with a specialization in Behavior Analysis from West Virginia University where she conducted both basic and applied research in learning, motivation, and Performance Management. She also holds an M.A. degree in Psychology from West Virginia University and B.S. degrees in both Psychology and Biology from Montana State University.
Dr. Hall has been at the University of Cincinnati for 23.5 years. Prior to becoming a faculty member of her current department, she was a faculty member in the College of Applied Science and then served as the founding (Interim) Director of the Office of Nationally Competitive Awards.
In addition to teaching, Dr. Hall has been very involved in Faculty Governance at the University of Cincinnati. She has served as the Chair of the University Faculty, as a Faculty Representative to the Board of Trustees, as the Secretary of the University Faculty,as both an at-large and college senator, as a member of the Faculty Senate Cabinet, as chair of the Faculty Senate Governance Committee, as chair of the Faculty Senate Human Relations Committee, as Chair of the Faculty Senate Committee on Committees, as a member of the Ohio Faculty Council and as a member of numerous additional committees and councils including the President's cabinet, the Academic Coordinating Committee, two Presidential Search Committees, a Provostal search committee, the Just Community Steering committee, the Grievance committee, the Student Appeals committee and many others.
Brian Rounds Metcalf
Assoc Professor - Educator, Psychology
3271 CLIFTCT
With a background in psychology and neuroscience, Brian earned his PhD from the Univerisity of Georgia Department of Psychology in the Biopsychology (since renamed Behavioral and Brain Sciences) Program. His teaching experience and interests, however, are wide-ranging. Specializing in teaching courses in Introduction to Psychology, Psychobiology, Sensation & Perception, and Personality (most frequently-taught courses), he has also taught Introductory Statistics in Psychology, Research Methods in Psychology, Advanced Statistics in Psychology, Social Psychology, and "capstone" courses including History & Systems of Psychology and Research Methods in Social Psychology. Since 2012, he has regularly taught online and hybrid course sections as well as the traditional course sections he has been teaching since 1993.
Brian has been awarded by his peers with three "Golden Apple Awards for Excellence" in Mentoring, Service to Students, and the Reflective Use of Technology in his online and traditional courses. A long-time faculty advisor to multiple-award-winning student organizations including the Psychology Club and Psi Chi, the International Honor Society in Psychology, Brian has also earned "Advisor of the Year," "Western Regional Psi Chi Chapter Advisor" awards, and was nominated for Psi Chi's "Florence Denmark National Faculty Advisor Award." Psychology Club groups and officers he has mentored have earned University numerous "Club of the Year," "Most Distinguished Club," "Event of the Year," "Best Outreach," "Most Spirited," and "President of the Year" awards over the years. The Psi Chi chapter and student officers he advised received "Model Chapter" status (7 consecutive years), "Western Regional Chapter of the Year," "Research Conference Grants" (5 consecutive years), and student, Caitlin Macy, received the "Kay Wilson Leadership" (National President of the Year) award.
Thomas Mobley
Psychology
Tom’s broad background includes work with Fortune 100 firms, government agencies, start-ups, and international companies. His expertise has been sought out and included in articles in USA Today, CNBC, MSNBC, and Dow Jones’ MarketWatch. In addition to being part of the faculty at Miami University, Tom is a past State Council Director for the Ohio State Council of SHRM and has served on the SHRM Board of Director’s Membership Advisory Council Representative for SHRM’s North Central Region. In 2011, he co-founded GETDOT Cincy – a non-profit professional networking group which aids its members and has raised over $11,000 for local children’s charities.
He has been to China twice in the last two years to teach Human Resource Management and Negotiation Courses for the International MBA and Graduate School for Dalian University of Technology (ranked in the top 10 for MBA programs in China). While there he has also presented Leading Through Change for HP, Emotional Intelligence for FESCO and Overcoming Bias.
Terri Jacklyn Pelley
Asst Professor - Educator, Psychology
3252 CLIFTCT
Melissa Robin Shyan-Norwalt
Assoc Professor - Educator, Psychology
3267 CLIFTCT
Sara Speybroeck
Assistant Professor Educator, Psychology
3270 CLIFTCT
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Richard Newell Tillman
Associate Professor - Educator, Psychology
3236 CLIFTCT
Julie Ann Weast
Associate Professor, Educator , Psychology
3269 CLIFTCT
Center for Cognition, Action and Perception
Perceptual Motor Dynamics Laboratory
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Adjunct Faculty
Marievee Santana
Assistant Professor-Adjunct, Psychology
LINDHALL
Debjani Sinha
Associate Professor - Adjunct & Private Practice, Psychologist, Psychology
ARTSCI
Affiliate Faculty
Meera Rastogi
Professor, CC Psychology
215 K CLER MCDONH
Emeriti Faculty
Kathy Burlew
McMicken Professor, Psychology
3210 CLIFTCT
Kathy Burlew is a substance abuse researcher. Her current and recent projects include (1) the development and testing of culturally tailored interventions to reduce HIV risk among substance abusing males and females and (2) the evaluation of interventions for African American substance abusers and (3) the evaluation of the long term benefits of participation in family therapy for substance using adolescents.
Charles W. Ginn
Associate Professor, Psychology
The current research interest of Charles Ginn focuses on the adoption of alternative course content systems including e-texts, publisher platforms, and open resource materials. For his teaching, he has repeatedly received the Excellence in Teaching Award as well as the Senior Class award for Inspiring Students. In 2011 Dr. Ginn received an Ohio Innovator Award from the Ohio Board of Regents for his efforts to reduce content costs for students.
Richard P Honeck
Psychology
Christine A Hovanitz
Professor Emeritus, Psychology
Steven Robert Howe
Professor Emeritus, Psychology
EDWARDS 1 Edwards Center
Kenneth R. King
Associate Professor, Psychology
Kenneth King is a psychobiologist with a particular interest in how small primitive areas in lower brain regions exert great influence over higher mental functions. In addition to Introductory Psychology and Statistics/Methods, his courses include Psychobiology, Psychopharmacology, Brains on Drugs, and Broken Brains.
Daniel Langmeyer
Represented Adjunct Professor, Director of Advising and associate director of undergraduate studies, Psychology
Catherine Strathern
Professor, Psychology
Purcell Taylor Jr.
Professor, Psychology
Staff
Nicole Teresa Hochstetler
Business Manager, Psychology
3215A CLIFTCT