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Faculty and Staff |
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Standing, from left to right: Richard Hubbard, Daniel DeBrule, Ginger DeBrule, Gwynn Mettetal (Chair), Laura Talcott, Catherine Borshuk, Dennis Rodriguez, John McIntosh; Seated, from left to right: Kathy Ritchie, Michelle Verges, Dé Bryant, Frank Fujita, Kevin Ladd. Resident Faculty 2007-08 Carolyn Schult is on sabbatical leave for the 2007-08 Academic Year. |
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Catherine Borshuk, Ph.D. |
(Carleton University, 2000). Office: DW 2155. Phone: 574-520-4122. Associate Professor & Director of Women's Studies Program. Social Psychologist. IUSB faculty member since 2000. Research interests are social identity theory and intergroup relations, migration and acculturation, and psychology of women. e-mail: cborshuk@iusb.edu Associate Graduate Faculty member
(2004) |
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De Bryant, Ph.D. |
(Michigan State University, 1990). Office: DW 2157. Phone: 574-520-4447. Professor & Director of the Social Action Project. Community Psychologist. IUSB faculty member since 1990. Research objectives are "to develop and replicate models for community building and empowerment; to create psychological assessment tools sensitive to differences caused by race, gender, and class inequities; and to establish a university-community partnership to bring about social change." Other interests: international service-learning, qualitative research methodologies, diversity as social justice. e-mail: dbryant@iusb.edu Associate Graduate Faculty member
(2004) |
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Daniel DeBrule |
(University of Southern Mississippi, 2004; Ph.D. expected 2008). Office: DW 2169. Phone: 574-520-4119. Acting Assistant Professor. Doctoral Candidate in Clinical Psychology. IUSB faculty member since 2007. Research interests include traumatic experience and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD; exposure-based writing interventions, posttraumatic growth), mood disorder and creativity. Future research efforts will also examine the writing paradigm (developed by Pennbaker) and innovative writing interventions in the context of stress, mood, and psychophysiological variables in addition to trauma/PTSD. e-mail: ddebrule@iusb.edu Associate Graduate Faculty member (2007) |
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Ginger DeBrule |
(University of Southern Mississippi, 2005; Ph.D. expected 2008). Office: DW 2171. Phone: 574-520-4285. Visiting Lecturer. Doctoral Candidate in Clinical Psychology. IUSB faculty member since 2007 (visiting). Research interests include impact of childhood abuse on optimism/pessimism, MMPI factor analysis, and inpatient mental health. e-mail: gdebrule@iusb.edu |
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Frank Fujita, Ph.D. |
(University of Illinois, 1994). Office: DW 2161. Phone: 574-520-5593. Professor of Psychology and Director of the IU South Bend Honors Program. Social/Personality Psychologist. IUSB faculty member since 1994. Research interests include social comparison, emotion, subjective well-being, and social desirability. e-mail: ffujita@iusb.edu Associate Graduate Faculty member
(2005) |
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Richard Hubbard, Ph.D. |
(University of Notre Dame, 1979). Office: DW 2129. Phone: 574-520-4512. Associate Professor. Clinical Psychologist. IUSB faculty member since 1991. Research interests include health psychology, pain management, risk factor reduction and ethnic differences, and mental health and aging, especially alcohol and aging. e-mail: rhubbard@iusb.edu Full Graduate Faculty member
(2000) |
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Kevin Ladd, Ph.D. |
(University of Denver, 2000). Office: DW 2159. Phone: 574-520-5505. Associate Professor. Social Psychologist. IUSB faculty member since 2001. Research interests include the interface of science & religion, prayer, wisdom, music, ritual, health, coping, prejudice, psychometrics, physiology, neuroimaging, synesthesia, spiritual transformation, character development, personality, clergy & congregational performance/satisfaction, magic. e-mail: kladd@iusb.edu Associate Graduate Faculty member (2004) |
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John McIntosh, Ph.D. |
(University of Notre Dame, 1980). Office: AI246B. Phone: 574-520-4343. Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, and Professor of Psychology. Developmental Psychologist, Geropsychologist and Suicidologist. IUSB faculty member since 1979. Research interests include suicide, gerontology, and developmental psychology, survivors of suicide, bereavement. e-mail:
jmcintos@iusb.edu Full Graduate Faculty member
(1991) |
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Gwynn Mettetal, Ph.D. |
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1982). Office: DW 2127. Phone: 574-520-4507. Chair and Professor of Psychology (College of Liberal Arts & Sciences) and Professor of Education (School of Education). Developmental Psychologist. IUSB faculty member since 1989 (Psychology since 2005). Research interests include faculty development issues such as tenure and promotion, and encouraging the scholarship of teaching and learning. e-mail: gmetteta@iusb.edu Dr. Mettetal's office is located in
Wiekamp Hall in the Psychology area. She began a joint
appointment in summer 2005 in Psychology and Education and
began teaching courses in the Department of Psychology in
Fall 2005. She became Department Chair in January 2006. She
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Kathy Ritchie, Ph.D. |
(University of Texas at Austin, 1992). Office: DW 2135. Phone: 574-520-4889. Associate Professor. Developmental Psychologist. IUSB faculty member since 1992. Research interests include maternal behaviors and cognitions during discipline episodes; learning and development of parental attitudes and schemas; intergenerational transmission of parental attitudes and schemas; and links between parenting and religiosity. e-mail: kritchie@iusb.edu Associate Graduate Faculty member
(2005) |
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Dennis Rodriguez, Ph.D. |
(University of South Carolina, 2004). Office: DW 2131. Phone: 574-520-4396. Assistant Professor. Experimental Psychologist. IUSB faculty member since 2004. Research interests include cognition and neuroscience; the neural bases of attention and attention disorders (attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder - ADHD); attachment styles and coping styles. e-mail: pdrodrig@iusb.edu Associate Graduate Faculty member
(2005) |
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Carolyn Schult, Ph.D. |
(University of Michigan, 1996). Office: DW 2133. Phone: 574-520-4118. Associate Professor. Developmental Psychologist. IUSB faculty member since 1997. Research interests include cognitive development of preschoolers; children's understandings of beliefs, intentions, and desires; children's representational abilities; and language acquisition. e-mail: cschult@iusb.edu Associate Graduate Faculty member
(2002) Sabbatial Leave 2007-08 Academic Year |
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Laura Talcott, M.A |
(Indiana University South Bend, 2001). Office: DW2137 (Psych Lab office: DW2108A). Office Phone: 574-520-4326 (Psych Lab Office Phone: 574-520-4269). Senior Lecturer & Psychology Laboratory Coordinator. IUSB faculty member since 2001 (staff member since 1995). Research interests include childhood cognitive development, particularly theory of mind research. e-mail: ltalcott@iusb.edu Faculty Colloquium on Excellence in Teaching (FACET) member (to be inducted 2008) |
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Michelle Verges, Ph.D. |
(University of Georgia, 2005). Office: DW 2167. Phone: 574-520-4593. Assistant Professor. Cognitive Psychologist. IUSB faculty member since 2005. Research interests include: knowledge representation, social and semantic categorization; affective processing; environmentalism. e-mail: mverges@iusb.edu Associate Graduate Faculty member
(2005) |
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Other Faculty: Emeritus and Associate FacultyEmeritus Faculty
John Long, Ph.D. |
(University of Kentucky, 1962). Emeritus Associate Professor since 1996. Experimental Psychologist. IUSB faculty member from 1972-1996. Research interests included animal learning, motivation, human memory, and perceptual learning.
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(University of New Hampshire, 1972). Emeritus Professor (& former Dean of College of Liberal Arts and Sciences) since 2000. Historian of psychology. IUSB CLAS Dean from 1991-2000. Research interests included women in psychology and science. e-mail: escarbor@iusb.edu |
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(Stanford University, 1969). Emeritus Professor (& former Chancellor) since 2002. IUSB Chancellor from 1997-2002. Research interests included cerebral dominance, neurological disorders of speech and language and accreditation.
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(Johns Hopkins University, 1968). Emeritus Associate Professor since January 2005. Cognitive Psychologist. IUSB faculty member from 1971-2004. Former Department Chair. Research interests included cognition, perception, and performance; perceptual factors and thinking styles in logical thinking; perceptual organization in rhythmic patterns; selective attention in choice reaction time. e-mail: rgottwal@iusb.edu Retirement Reception Pictures: Department CLAS
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(Southern Illinois University, 1971). Emeritus Professor since September 2006. Behavioral Psychologist. IUSB faculty member from 1970-2006. Former Department Chair. Research interests included behavior therapy, child development, and preventive psychology. e-mail: tmawhinn@iusb.edu Retirement Reception Pictures: Department Dinner
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Office: DW 2173. Phone: 574-520-4506. |
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Secretary of the Psychology Department. Office: DW 2119. Phone: 574-520-4393.
e-mail: mmarkley@iusb.edu |
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Assistant Psychology Lab Coordinator. Office: DW 2108A. Phone:574-520-4269.
e-mail: nwatreas@iusb.edu |
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Send comments to: sbpsy@iusb.edu
Mail may be addressed to: Department of Psychology Indiana University South Bend P.O. Box 7111 South Bend, IN 46634-7111 Fax: (574) 520-4538 Department Phone: (574) 520-4393