Alumni

Postdoctoral Fellows

Max Owens
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

Graduate Students

Kiera James
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, University of Pittsburgh Department of Psychology


Cope Feurer

Cope Feurer, Ph.D., 2020

Dissertation: "Attentional biases and individual differences in adolescent stress reactivity"

Current Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago Department of Psychiatry


Aliona Tsypes
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
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
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
Katie Burkhouse, Ph.D., 2016

Dissertation: “Neural and physiological indices of emotional reactivity in adolescent depression”

Current Position: Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, The Ohio State University College of Medicine


Andrea Hanley
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
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
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

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
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
Jessica Benas, Ph.D., 2009

Dissertation: “Cognitive biases in depression and eating disorders”

Current position: Director of Psychology Continuing Education, Rutgers University


Dorothy Uhrlass
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

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.