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Department Chair

Jocelyn Newton  Profile of Jocelyn Newton  Jocelyn Newton saysMeet with me

335A Graff Main Hall
jnewton@uwlax.edu
608.785.6889

Specialty areas:

School Psychology; Assessment; Early Childhood Assessment and Intervention; Child & Adolescent Psychopathology

Associate Department Chair

Ellen Rozek  Profile of Ellen Rozek  Office hours

341E Graff Main Hall
erozek@uwlax.edu
608.785.6899

Specialty areas:

Gerontology, Lifespan Development

Cognitive Psychology (Neuropsychology)

Psych Hour (Fridays, 12:05-1:00)

Academic Department Associate

Jane Fredrick  Profile of Jane Fredrick  Office hours

335 Graff Main Hall
jfredrick@uwlax.edu
608.785.8440

School Psychology Program Assistant

Taylor Wirkus  Profile of Taylor Wirkus  Office hours

Administrative Assistant II
347 Graff Main Hall
twirkus2@uwlax.edu
608.785.8441

Full-Time Faculty

Bianca Basten  Profile of Bianca Basten  Office hours

Assistant Professor
349B Graff Main Hall
bbasten@uwlax.edu
608.785.6898

Specialty areas:

Cognitive Psychology (eyewitness memory; source memory)
Experimental design and statistics

Tracie Blumentritt  Profile of Tracie Blumentritt

Professor
341C Graff Main Hall
tblumentritt@uwlax.edu
608.785.6883

Specialty areas:

Developmental & Educational Psychology

Psychometrics

Behavior Genetics 

Autism Spectrum Disorder

Melanie Cary  Profile of Melanie Cary  Office hours

Associate Professor
335C Graff Main Hall
mcary@uwlax.edu
608.785.6884

Specialty areas:

Cognitive Psychology (strategy selection, problem solving, memory aids)

Grace Deason  Profile of Grace Deason

Professor
335B Graff Main Hall
gdeason@uwlax.edu
608.785.8442

Specialty areas:

Social Psychology (political psychology, gender)

Robert Dixon  Profile of Robert Dixon  Robert Dixon saysMeet with me

Associate Professor
331B Graff Main Hall
rdixon@uwlax.edu
608.785.6893

Specialty areas:

School Psychology, Response to Intervention (RtI), Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS), Online Service Delivery

To arrange a meeting, please use the following link

     Psychology Office Hours (349A GMH): LINK

Berna Gercek Swing  Profile of Berna Gercek Swing  Office hours

Assistant Professor
341M Graff Main Hall
bgercekswing@uwlax.edu
608.785.5236

Specialty areas:

Social and Cross-cultural Psychology (self-construal, honor/dignity and self-esteem)

Daniel Hyson  Profile of Daniel Hyson

Associate Professor
349A Graff Main Hall
dhyson@uwlax.edu
608.785.8444

Specialty areas:

Equity-Minded Teaching

School Psychology (especially Teacher-Student Relationships, Alternative Approaches to Working with Behaviorally Challenging Students, Systems-Level Data-Driven Decision Making)

Katherine Kortenkamp  Profile of Katherine Kortenkamp  Office hours

Professor
341L Graff Main Hall
kkortenkamp@uwlax.edu
608.785.8445

Specialty areas:

Psychology of Environmental Issues

Research Methods & Statistics

Tesia Marshik  Profile of Tesia Marshik

Professor
341G Graff Main Hall
tmarshik@uwlax.edu
608.785.8625

Specialty areas:

Developmental and Educational Psychology (motivation, effective teaching and learning strategies, self-regulation, and teacher-student relationships)

Ryan McKelley  Profile of Ryan McKelley  Ryan McKelley saysMeet with me  Office hours

Professor
341D Graff Main Hall
rmckelley@uwlax.edu
608.785.6879

Specialty areas:

Clinical/counseling psychology; men and masculinities; health psychology (stress, resilience; biofeedback; sleep); behavior modification; group counseling; psychopharmacology (i.e., drugs and behavior)

Jocelyn Newton  Profile of Jocelyn Newton  Jocelyn Newton saysMeet with me

Professor
335A Graff Main Hall
jnewton@uwlax.edu
608.785.6889

Specialty areas:

School Psychology; Assessment; Early Childhood Assessment and Intervention; Child & Adolescent Psychopathology

Alexander O'Brien  Profile of Alexander O'Brien  Office hours

Associate Professor
341P Graff Main Hall
aobrien@uwlax.edu
608.785.6886

Specialty areas:

Visual and auditory perception, Research methods, Teaching methods, Memory

Alessandro Quartiroli  Profile of Alessandro Quartiroli  Alessandro Quartiroli saysMeet with me  Office hours

Professor
331G Graff Main Hall
aquartiroli@uwlax.edu
608.785.6897

Specialty areas:

Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology & Counseling

  • professional training, development, and practice in sport psychologists,
  • self-care and wellbeing in sport psychologists and other professionals,
  • cultural competence, humility, and safety in psychology practitioners,
  • identity in psychology practitioners,
  • performance psychology in esports,
  • organizational culture in sport and health organizations.
Ellen Rozek  Profile of Ellen Rozek  Office hours

Associate Professor
341E Graff Main Hall
erozek@uwlax.edu
608.785.6899

Specialty areas:

Gerontology, Lifespan Development

Cognitive Psychology (Neuropsychology)

Psych Hour (Fridays, 12:05-1:00)

Erica Srinivasan  Profile of Erica Srinivasan

Associate Professor
341B Graff Main Hall
esrinivasan@uwlax.edu
608.785.6882

Specialty areas:

Developmental psychology, gerontology (dementia, caregiving, intergenerational relationships, ageism), thanatology (aid-in-dying, disenfranchised grief, ambiguous loss, prolonged grief disorder, COVID-19, medical ethics, writing tools for grief), qualitative methods, applied research impacting community programming and policy development. 

Tanvi Thakkar  Profile of Tanvi Thakkar  Office hours

Assistant Professor
331A Graff Main Hall
tthakkar@uwlax.edu
608.785.5235

Specialty areas:

Cochlear Implants; Psychoacoustics; Binaural Hearing

Casey Tobin  Profile of Casey Tobin  Casey Tobin saysMeet with me  Office hours

Associate Professor
341J Graff Main Hall
ctobin@uwlax.edu
608.785.6890

Specialty areas:

Clinical/Counseling Psychology; Child Abuse and Neglect; Sexuality (attitudes and experiences); Sexual Health; Sexual Abuse; Volunteer Experiences; Internship and Fieldwork Experiences

Suthakaran Veerasamy  Profile of Suthakaran Veerasamy

Assistant Professor
331D Graff Main Hall
sveerasamy@uwlax.edu
608.785.6887

Specialty areas:

Counseling Psychology (racial identity, religious identity, multicultural education)

Kevin Zabel  Profile of Kevin Zabel  Office hours

Associate Professor
341A Graff Main Hall
kzabel@uwlax.edu
608.785.6896

Specialty areas:

Social Psychology

Social Cognition

 

Part-Time Faculty

Chelsea Ale  Profile of Chelsea Ale  Office hours

Lecturer
341F Graff Main Hall
cale@uwlax.edu
608.785.5017

Specialty areas:

Clinical child and adolescent psychology. Dr. Ale has focused her research and clinical work on childhood anxiety disorders, parental accommodation of anxiety disorders, family interventions for early childhood disruptive behavior disorders, and chronic pain and functional impairment in adolescents. 

Ericka Check  Profile of Ericka Check  Ericka Check saysMeet with me  Office hours

Lecturer
335 Graff Main Hall
echeck@uwlax.edu
608.785.8440