Faculty & Staff

Faculty

Name	Contact	Program	Research Interests
Yalcin Acikgoz Associate Professor	(828) 262-8926 acikgozy@appstate.edu	Industrial-Organizational	Employee recruitment and job search, applicant reactions in recruitment and selection, applicant decision-making, applications of social media in human resources, impression management in the workplace.
Mary Ballard Professor	(828) 262-8929 ballardme@appstate.edu	Psychological Science	Aggression; media; video games; bullying.
Doris Bazzini Professor	(828) 262-8967 bazzinidg@appstate.edu	Psychological Science	Impact of professional female athletes on women's body image Female body dissatisfaction's impact on relationship maintenance processes Factors that influence romantic relationships Dog Breed Stereotypes as a function of Race and Urban Factors
Jackie Belhumeur Wayne Senior Lecturer	(828) 262-8932 belhumeurjr@appstate.edu
Shawn Bergman Kulynych/Cline Distinguished Professor	(828) 262-8933 bergmans@appstate.edu	Industrial-Organizational	Statistical and quantitative methods, person-environment fit, and vocational choice.
Reagan Breitenstein Assistant Professor	breitensteinrs@appstate.edu Dr. Breitenstein's Website	Psychological Science	Sleep, Temperament, Qualities of the home environment and family relationships, Twin and behavior genetic designs, Developmental psychology
Joshua Broman-Fulks Professor	(828) 262-8934 bromanfulksj@appstate.edu Lab Website	Clinical	Anxiety disorders; anxiety vulnerability factors; physical exercise; taxometrics.
Dr. Brooke Burrows Assistant Professor	(828) 262-8194 burrowsbe@appstate.edu Professional Website
Will Canu Professor	(828) 262-8935 canuwh@appstate.edu Website	Clinical	Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder; social adjustment and psychological disorders; child clinical psychology; adjustment and intervention in rural contexts.
Lisa Curtin Clinical Psychology Program Director and Director of Clinical Training Aeschleman Distinguished Professor of Psychology	(828) 262-8936 curtinla@appstate.edu https://clinicalpsychpsyd.appstate.edu/	Clinical	Rural mental health services, addictive behaviors, integrated care, social factors and body image.
Kaleb Davis Lecturer	(828) 262-8951 daviskr3@appstate.edu
James R. Deni Professor	(828) 262-8938 denijr@appstate.edu	School	Specific Learning Disabilities, Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS), Intervention Fidelity, Implementation Science, & School Mental Health, Professional Issues in School Psychology, Special Education and related areas, School Psychology Accreditation, Revide Connect for ADHD students.
Chris Dickinson Associate Professor	(828) 262-8940 dickinsonca@appstate.edu Website	Psychological Science	Visual cognition, visual memory, scene perception, eye movements during visual search and scene perception.
Lauren Disselkoen Undergraduate Internship Coordinator; Lecturer	(828) 262-8931 disselkoenlj@appstate.edu
Lisa Emery Associate Professor	(828) 262-8941 emerylj@appstate.edu Website	Psychological Science	Developmental psychology; adult development & aging; emotion regulation; memory.
Sandra G. Gagnon Professor	(828) 262-8944 gagnonsg@appstate.edu	School	High school and college bullying Preschool social-emotional-behavioral development INSIGHTS Into Children’s Temperaments Child temperament Adult-child relationships Parent and teaching stress Peer interactive play Intervention fidelity Needs assessment Examiner errors in graduate student standardized test administration
Amy T. Galloway Professor	(828) 262-8945 gallowayat@appstate.edu	Psychological Science	Development of food preferences, picky eating, normal and disordered eating in children and adults; parent and child food interactions. Sustainable and community food system research.
Dr. Thomas (Tom) Gross Assistant Professor	(828) 262-8798 grosstj@appstate.edu		• Universal Social/Emotional/Behavioral Assessments and Supports • Program assessment and evaluation for social and academic support of learners • School psychology cultural competency
Jacqueline Hersh Associate Professor	(828) 262-6969 hershjr@appstate.edu Website	Clinical	Psychotherapy process and outcome; enhancing and tailoring empirically supported treatments; access and dissemination of ESTs; child and adolescent psychopathology.
Brian Higley Visiting Assistant Professor	(828) 267-6118 higleybp@appstate.edu
Robert W. Hill Associate Professor	hillrw@appstate.edu	Clinical	Perfectionism; interpersonal characteristics; self injury; personality; ethics; therapy.
Christopher Holden Associate Professor	holdencj@appstate.edu Website	Psychological Science	Personality and evolutionary psychology, romantic relationships, HEXACO model of personality, self-esteem, relationship-contingent self-esteem, mate retention behavior, open science.
Hannah Holmes Clinical Assistant Professor	(828) 262-8951 holmeshj1@appstate.edu		Health psychology, women's health, human sexuality, emotion-focused interventions for chronic pain
Timothy J. Huelsman IOHRM Program Director Professor	(828) 262-8949 huelsmantj@appstate.edu	Industrial-Organizational	Organizations; organizational culture; organizational assessment; program evaluation.
John Paul Jameson Professor	(828) 262-8950 jamesonjp@appstate.edu	Clinical	Suicide prevention; rural mental health services; empirically supported psychotherapies; community/academic partnerships; school-based mental health.
Timothy D. Ludwig Professor	(828) 262-8952 ludwigtd@appstate.edu	Industrial-Organizational	Organizational behavior management; behavioral analysis; employee performance; occupational safety.
Denise M. Martz Professor	(828) 262-8953 martzdm@appstate.edu	Clinical	Health psychology & behavioral medicine; Women's health; Fat talk, body image, eating disorders, & obesity; Interpersonal violence & physician's intervention in primary care.
Lindsay Masland Professor Executive Director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning for Student Success (CETLSS)	(828) 262-7596 maslandlc@appstate.edu	CETLSS	college student motivation and engagement, transformative teaching practices for student success, data-based decision-making about teaching, faculty development
Matthew Meier Assistant Professor	(828) 262-8947 meierme@appstate.edu Website		Cognitive Psychology, Working Memory Capacity, Individual Differences, Cognitive Control, Mind Wandering
Lynn Mosteller Undergraduate Advising Director Senior Lecturer	(828) 262-8958 mostellerlh@appstate.edu
Angela Napoli Lecturer	(828) 262-8954 napoliar@appstate.edu
Lucinda O. Payne Senior Lecturer	paynesmithlo@appstate.edu
MaryAnn Samad Visiting Assistant Professor	(828) 262-8956 samadm@appstate.edu
Dr. Cassidy Sandoval Assistant Professor	(828) 262-8300 sandovalcm1@appstate.edu		Women’s health Body image (body dissatisfaction, positive body image) Weight stigma Eating behaviors Mobile health assessment and intervention
Thomas Schwartz Lecturer	(828) 262-8928 schwartztw@appstate.edu		Identifying and addressing educational barriers for underrepresented groups
Andrew Smith Professor	(828) 262-8960 smithar3@appstate.edu Website	Psychological Science	Judgment and decision making; social cognition; risk taking; risk perception; wishful thinking; social comparisons; comparative optimism.
Kenneth M. Steele Professor	(828) 262-8961 steelekm@appstate.edu Website	Psychological Science	Learning in nonhumans and humans; visual and auditory perception; activity anorexia; music perception; color priming; the "Mozart effect."
William Stiles Adjunct Professor	stileswb@appstate.edu	Clinical	Psychotherapy process and outcome; verbal interaction; theory and epistemology.
Crystal Taylor Assistant Professor	taylorcn3@appstate.edu
Dr. Adelya Urmanche Assistant Professor	(828) 262-8942 urmancheaa@appstate.edu		Substance use and misuse Overdose prevention and harm reduction Community-based collaborations Psychotherapy process research and supervision
Douglas A. Waring Associate Professor	(828) 262-8962 waringda@appstate.edu	Psychological Science	Cognitive/Evolutionary; role of working memory and prior knowledge in comprehension, memory, persuasion, conformity, reciprocity.
Rose Mary Webb Department Chair Professor	(828) 262-8927 webbrm@appstate.edu	Psychological Science	Perceptions of personality and competence; estimation and perception of quantity; development of intellectual talent.
Richard Wilson Senior Lecturer	wilsonrp@appstate.edu
Twila Wingrove Professor Assistant Chair	(828) 262-8965 wingroveta@appstate.edu Website	Psychological Science	Legal/forensic psychology, developmental psychology.
Katie Wolsiefer Assistant Professor	(828) 262-8943 wolsieferkj@appstate.edu Website	Psychological Science	Social Psychology: stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination, social cognition, implicit and explicit attitudes, communication of bias (and bias reduction) in healthcare.
Jamie Yarbrough School Psychology Program Director	(828) 262-8966 yarbroughjl@appstate.edu	School	Empirically supported academic and behavioral interventions, implementation science, research-to-practice gap in educational settings, resistance to change, multi-tiered systems of support, response to intervention, curriculum-based measurement, progress monitoring, school consultation, and prevention of school failure.
Mark C. Zrull Professor Assistant Chair	(828) 262-8930 zrullmc@appstate.edu	Psychological Science	Experience and evoked neural activity in adolescent animals; mechanisms of sound-induced seizures; efficacy of undergraduate research.