Jorge Barraza, PhD
Program Director, Associate Professor (teaching)
Areas of Expertise: Consumer Behavior, Experience Design, Consumer Neuroscience, Entertainment
Courses Taught: Proseminar in Human Behavior (Foundations, Applications)
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Mona Farid-Nejad, PhD
Assistant Professor (practice)
Areas of Expertise: Organizational Development, Culture, Change Management, Evaluation
Courses Taught: Organizational Psychology, Group Dynamics and Leadership, Treatise, Proseminar in Human Behavior (Applications)
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Meredith Lepley, PhD
Associate Professor (practice)
Areas of Expertise: Work Environments, Employee Engagement, Survey Research
Courses Taught: Research Methods
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Steve Westberg, PhD
Associate Professor (practice)
Areas of Expertise: Consumer Behavior, Consumer Psychology, Marketing, Consumer Research, Research Methods
Courses Taught: Consumer Psychology, Treatise, Proseminar in Human Behavior, Research Methods
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Jason Buhle, PhD
Associate Professor (Practice)
Areas of Expertise: User Experience Research, Research Methods, Cognitive Neuroscience, Executive Function, Emotion Regulation
Courses Taught: User Experience Research, Consumer Psychology Treatise
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Francesca Puggelli, PhD
Full Time Lecturer
Areas of Expertise: Social psychology, advertising, public service advertising, mass media, social media, emotion management at work and organizational development.
Courses Taught: Psychology of Interactive Media; Internship
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Kathleen Marker, PhD
Lecturer
Areas of Expertise: Consumer Behavior, Qualitative Research Methods, User Experience Research, Brand Positioning
Courses Taught: Proseminar in Human Behavior (Applications)
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Maura J. Harrington Roggero, PhD
Lecturer
Areas of Expertise: Proseminar in Human Behavior (Applications)
Courses Taught: Proseminar in Human Behavior (Applications)
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Melissa Lopez, PhD
Lecturer
Areas of Expertise: Organizational Behavior, Program Development
Courses Taught: Organizational Psychology
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Julie Lyon, PhD
Lecturer
Areas of Expertise: Organizational Psychology, Organizational Climate and Culture, Reducing Adverse Impact in Selection, Women and Leadership, Virtual Teams, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Courses Taught: Organizational Psychology
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Catherine Neubauer, PhD
Lecturer
Areas of Expertise: Human Factors, Psychophysiology
Courses Taught: Proseminar in Human Behavior (550A Foundations + 550B Applications)
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Michael V. Nguyen, PhD
Lecturer
Areas of Expertise: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB), Institutional Effectiveness, and Organizational Culture Development
Courses Taught: Cross-Cultural Psychology in Applied Settings
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Lauren Young, PhD
Lecturer
Areas of Expertise: Organizational Change; Leadership; Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB).
Courses Taught: Group Dynamics and Leadership
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Jenna Rubenstein, PhD
Lecturer
Areas of Expertise: Leadership Development; Change Leadership; Engagement and Culture; Organization Development;
Courses Taught: Group Dynamics and Leadership; Internship
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Naomi Grewal, PhD
Lecturer
Areas of Expertise: User Experience Research; Consumer Behavior; People Analytics; Decision-Making; Leadership
Courses Taught: Proseminar in Human Behavior (Foundations)
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Lexi Keaveney Breitz, PhD
Lecturer
Areas of Expertise: User Experience Research, Decision-Making, Social Psychology, Quantitative Methods
Courses Taught: User Experience Research
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Luke Thelen, PhD
Lecturer
Areas of Expertise: Quantitative Methods
Courses Taught: Research Methods, Advanced Quantitative Methods
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Khatera Sahibzada, PhD
Lecturer
Areas of Expertise: Employee Assessment and Selection; Leadership Development; Performance Management
Courses Taught: Employee Selection and Assessment
Staff
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Donald Lenzy Ward
Associate Director
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Jessica Singer
Senior Program Specialist
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Desiree Mendez
Admissions Counselor
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Tahnia Alam
Student Services Assistant
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Urmila Patil
Senior Career Advisor
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Dipti Agrawal
Media Manager