Faculty & Staff
Department Chair
Faculty
Tahirah Abdullah
Title: Associate Professor
Department: Psychology
Email: Tahirah.Abdullah@umb.edu
Expertise: Mental health among African Americans; mental illness stigma; culture, identity...
Devin Atallah
Title: Assistant Professor
Department: Psychology
Email: Devin.Atallah@umb.edu
Expertise: Decolonial clinical community psychology praxis; Trauma, resilience, and healing justice;...
Evan Auguste
Title: Assistant Professor
Department: Psychology
Email: Evan.Auguste@umb.edu
Expertise: Black liberation psychology, African-centered psychology, forensic psychology, juvenile justice...
Tashauna Blankenship
Title: Assistant Professor
Department: Psychology
Email: Tashauna.Blankenship@umb.edu
Expertise: Attention and Memory Development, Executive Functioning, Developmental cognitive neuroscience
Erik Blaser
Title: Professor
Department: Psychology
Email: Erik.Blaser@umb.edu
Expertise: Visual psychophysics
Alice Carter
Title: Professor
Department: Psychology
Email: AliceS.Carter@umb.edu
Expertise: Identification of infants and toddlers at risk for problems in...
Vivian Ciaramitaro
Title: Associate Professor
Department: Psychology
Email: Vivian.Ciaramitaro@umb.edu
Expertise: Cognitive Neuroscience, Attention and Sensory Development, Neuroimaging
Abbey Eisenhower
Title: Professor
Department: Psychology
Email: Abbey.Eisenhower@umb.edu
Expertise: Child clinical psychology, school-based interventions, teacher professional development, autism...
Carroy Ferguson
Title: Professor
Department: Psychology
Email: Carroy.Ferguson@umb.edu
Expertise: Clinical psychology; evolution of consciousness, energy, and belief systems; human...
Sarah Hayes
Title: Graduate Program Director/Associate Professor
Department: Psychology
Email: Sarah.Hayes@umb.edu
Expertise: Clinical psychology; cognitive-behavioral and acceptance and mindfulness treatments of anxiety;...
Richard Hunter III
Title: Graduate Program Director/Associate Professor
Department: Psychology
Email: Richard.Hunter@umb.edu
Expertise: Neuroendocrinology, Neuropharmacology, Neurobiology of Stress and Epigenetics
Zsuzsanna Kaldy
Title: Professor
Department: Psychology
Email: Zsuzsa.Kaldy@umb.edu
Expertise: Early development of visual attention and visual working memory in...
Heidi Levitt
Title: Professor
Department: Psychology
Email: Heidi.Levitt@umb.edu
Expertise: Psychotherapy process and outcome -- with a focus upon clients...
Lisa Maeng
Title: Assistant Professor
Department: Psychology
Email: Lisa.Maeng@umb.edu
Expertise: Sex differences in the neurobiology of stress and fear, Behavioral...
Paul Nestor
Title: Professor U of M
Department: Psychology
Email: Paul.Nestor@umb.edu
Expertise: Clinical Neuropsychology; Forensic Psychology; Attention in Schizophrenia; Violence and Psychosis
Jin Ho Park
Title: Associate Professor
Department: Psychology
Email: Jinho.Park@umb.edu
Expertise: Behavioral neuroendocrinology, reproductive behavior and physiology, behavioral genetics, behavioral
Roberto Renteria
Title: Assistant Professor
Department: Psychology
Email: Roberto.Renteria@umb.edu
Expertise: Latiné psychology; sexual & gender minority health; intersectionality, stigma, and...
Jean Rhodes
Title: Professor A
Department: Psychology
Email: Jean.Rhodes@umb.edu
Expertise: Mentoring relationships, risk and protective factors in adolescent development, emerging...
Lizabeth Roemer
Title: Professor
Department: Psychology
Email: Lizabeth.Roemer@umb.edu
Expertise: Anxiety Disorders, Cognitive-Behavioral Treatments, Mindfulness and Acceptance
Karen Suyemoto
Title: Professor
Department: Psychology
Email: Karen.Suyemoto@umb.edu
Expertise: Clinical psychology, Asian American studies, mental health and identity in...
Susan Zup
Title: Associate Professor
Department: Psychology
Email: Susan.Zup@umb.edu
Expertise: Neuroscience; Behavioral Neuroendocrinology; how hormones alter the developing brain; sex...Lecturers
Daria Boeninger
Title: Senior Lecturer
Department: Psychology
Email: Daria.Boeninger@umb.edu
Expertise: Lifespan development; developmental psychopathology and prevention of suicide; stress &...Gabrielle Gallagher
Title: Associate Lecturer
Department: Psychology
Email: Gabrielle.Gallagher@umb.edu
Susanna Gallor
Title: Senior Lecturer
Department: Psychology
Email: Susanna.Gallor@umb.edu
Expertise: Multicultural and Social Justice Psychology; Prevention Psychology; University Mental Health...
David Gorman
Title: Lecturer
Department: Psychology
Email: David.Gorman@umb.edu
Expertise: Adolescent forensics; trauma; addictions; sexualized behaviors/issues; family dynamics; active...
Kathryn Kogan
Title: Senior Lecturer II
Department: Psychology
Email: Kathryn.Kogan@umb.edu
Expertise: Addictive disorders, Impact of Chronic Illness, Adult Psychotherapy, Group Psychotherapy
Miloslava Kozmova
Title: Senior Lecturer
Department: Psychology
Email: Miloslava.Kozmova@umb.edu
Expertise: Consciousness; spirituality; emotions; motivations; mental health; development and maintenance of...
Margaret Vaughan
Title: Senior Lecturer
Department: Psychology
Email: Margaret.Vaughan@umb.edu
Expertise: Infancy and child development; early intervention; family studiesEmeritus and Retired Faculty
- Jane Adams, Associate Dean and Professor of Psychology
- Joan Liem, Professor Emerita
- Michael Milburn, Professor of Psychology
- Celia Moore, Professor Emerita
- Ester Shapiro, Associate Professor of Psychology
- Carol Smith, Professor Emerita
- Edward Tronick, Distinguished University Professor of Psychology