Graduate Students
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Allison Borland, M.A. |
Developmental Psychology Doctoral Student Faculty Advisor, Dr. Susan Calkins ---------------------------------------- B.A., Psychology, Gannon University, Erie, PA M.A., Research Psychology, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, Dartmouth, MA ---------------------------------------- Research Interests: The role of childhood factors (particularly abuse and emotion dysregulation) to predict later antisocial and deviant behaviors. |
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Jason Boye, M.A. |
Clinical Psychology Doctoral Student Faculty Advisor, Dr. Susan Keane ---------------------------------------- B.A., Psychology, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington, NC M.A., Clinical Psychology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC ---------------------------------------- Research Interests: Teacher-child relationships, particularly the kindergarten teacher-child relationship and its impact on school outcomes including externalizing behaviors and academic success. In addition, early child and parent factors that influence the development of the teacher-child relationship and how these factors indirectly affect later outcomes. |
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Ashley Brown, B.A. |
Clinical Psychology Doctoral Student Faculty Advisor, Dr. Susan Keane ---------------------------------------- B.A., Psychology ---------------------------------------- Research Interests: |
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Anahita Kalianivala, B.S. |
Clinical Psychology Doctoral Student Faculty Advisor, Dr. Susan Keane ---------------------------------------- B.S., Psychology, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX ---------------------------------------- Research Interests: An opportunity to work with internationally adopted children and their families during undergraduate studies inspired the development of research interests in parent-child interactions, with special interests in adolescent outcomes. Specifically (and current Master's thesis plans), to examine childhood parenting behaviors (i.e., warmth, intrusiveness and monitoring) and how they predict later oppositionality. |
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Rachael Kelleher, M.S. |
Clinical Psychology Doctoral Student Faculty Advisor, Dr. Susan Calkins ---------------------------------------- B.A., English Literature, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH M.S., Human Development and Family Studies, Penn State, University Park, PA ---------------------------------------- Research Interests: Areas of major interest concentrate on the following: To better understand how psychobiological dysregulation impacts the development of self-regulation throughout childhood and adolescence as well as understand how it predicts outcomes of later psychopathology. Second, to better grasp and elaborate on how caregiving and social environments (parents, family, siblings, and peers) affect the development of emotional regulation in children. Third, to ultimately identify and understand how the study of developmental change points to processes of resilience; and how these processes may illuminate ways to guide developmental pathways toward adaptive outcomes. |
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Jessica Lorenzo, B.A. |
Clinical Psychology Doctoral Student Faculty Advisor, Dr. Susan Keane ---------------------------------------- B.S., Psychology, Minor Cognitive Sciences, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL ---------------------------------------- Research Interests: The relationship between peer acceptance and internalizing disorders. |
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Jennifer Mackler, M.A. |
Clinical Psychology Doctoral Student Faculty Advisor, Dr. Susan Calkins ---------------------------------------- B.A., Psychology, B.A. in Criminology, University of Maryland, College Park, MA M.A., Clinical Psychology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC ---------------------------------------- Research Interests: The interplay of stress and emotion regulation and how these factors contribute to maladjustment across childhood. Specifically, child and contextual factors that contribute to individual differences in emotion regulation, and how stress impacts children and parents. |
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Nneka Morris, B.A. |
Clinical Psychology Doctoral Student Faculty Advisor, Dr. Susan Keane --------------------------------------- B.A., Psychology, Hampton University, Hampton, VA M.A., Clinical Psychology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC --------------------------------------- Research Interests: Examining the role early emotion regulation has on later behavioral outcomes. |
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Jame O’Sullivan, B.A. |
Experimental Psychology Masters Student Faculty Advisor, Dr. Susan Calkins --------------------------------------- B.A., Psychology, University of North Carolina at Asheville, Asheville, NC B.A., Sociology, University of North Carolina at Asheville, Asheville, NC --------------------------------------- Research Interests: Risk and resiliency factors that influence the development and expression of externalizing behavior problems. |
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Meghan Rose, M.S. |
Developmental Psychology Doctoral Student Faculty Advisor, Dr. Susan Calkins --------------------------------------- B.A., Psychology, Minor Government, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY M.S., Experimental Psychology, Villanova University, Villanova, PA --------------------------------------- Research Interests: Developmental psychopathology and sibling relationships. |
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Rebecca Suffness, B.A. |
Clinical Psychology Doctoral Student Faculty Advisor, Dr. Susan Keane --------------------------------------- B.A., Psychology, Minor English, Duke University, Durham, NC --------------------------------------- Research Interests: Factors that influence the development of depression and anxiety in children and adolescents. |
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Margaret Whedon, B.A. |
Developmental Psychology Masters Student Faculty Advisor, Dr. Susan Calkins ---------------------------------------- B.A., Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC ---------------------------------------- Research Interests: Physiological regulation and its influence on developing emotional and cognitive control. |
