{"id":150,"date":"2022-11-09T01:49:40","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T01:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/map\/?page_id=150"},"modified":"2026-01-08T14:18:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T22:18:32","slug":"faculty","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/map\/faculty\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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\n \n \n Jorge Barraza, PhD\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Program Director, Associate Professor (teaching)<\/p>\n

Areas of Expertise: Consumer Behavior, Experience Design, Consumer Neuroscience, Entertainment<\/span><\/p>\n

Courses Taught: Proseminar in Human Behavior (Foundations, Applications)<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n Mona Farid-Nejad, PhD\n\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Assistant Professor (practice)<\/span><\/p>\n

Areas of Expertise: Organizational Development, Culture, Change Management, Evaluation<\/span><\/p>\n

Courses Taught: Organizational Psychology, Group Dynamics and Leadership, Treatise, Proseminar in Human Behavior (Applications)<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n Meredith Lepley, PhD\n\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Associate Professor (practice)<\/span><\/p>\n

Areas of Expertise: Work Environments, Employee Engagement, Survey Research<\/span><\/p>\n

Courses Taught: Research Methods<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n Steve Westberg, PhD\n\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Associate Professor (practice)<\/span><\/p>\n

Areas of Expertise: Consumer Behavior, Consumer Psychology, Marketing, Consumer Research, Research Methods<\/span><\/p>\n

Courses Taught: Consumer Psychology, Treatise, Proseminar in Human Behavior, Research Methods<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n Jason Buhle, PhD\n\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Associate Professor (Practice)<\/span><\/p>\n

Areas of Expertise: User Experience Research, Research Methods, Cognitive Neuroscience, Executive Function, Emotion Regulation<\/span><\/p>\n

Courses Taught: User Experience Research, Consumer Psychology Treatise<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n Francesca Puggelli, PhD\n\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Full Time Lecturer<\/p>\n

Areas of Expertise: Social psychology, advertising, public service advertising, mass media, social media, emotion management at work and organizational development. <\/span><\/p>\n

Courses Taught: Psychology of Interactive Media; Internship<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n Kathleen Marker, PhD\n\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Lecturer<\/p>\n

Areas of Expertise: Consumer Behavior, Qualitative Research Methods, User Experience Research, Brand Positioning<\/p>\n

Courses Taught: Proseminar in Human Behavior (Applications)<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n Maura J. Harrington Roggero, PhD\n\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Lecturer<\/p>\n

Areas of Expertise: Proseminar in Human Behavior (Applications)<\/span><\/p>\n

Courses Taught: Proseminar in Human Behavior (Applications)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n Julie Lyon, PhD\n\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Lecturer<\/p>\n

Areas of Expertise: Organizational Psychology, Organizational Climate and Culture, Reducing Adverse Impact in Selection, Women and Leadership, Virtual Teams, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning<\/p>\n

Courses Taught: Organizational Psychology<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n Catherine Neubauer, PhD\n\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Lecturer<\/p>\n

Areas of Expertise: Human Factors, Psychophysiology<\/p>\n

Courses Taught: Proseminar in Human Behavior (550A Foundations + 550B Applications)<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n Michael V. Nguyen, PhD\n\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Lecturer<\/p>\n

Areas of Expertise: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB), Institutional Effectiveness, and Organizational Culture Development<\/p>\n

Courses Taught: Cross-Cultural Psychology in Applied Settings<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n Lauren Young, PhD\n\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Lecturer<\/p>\n

Areas of Expertise: Organizational Change; Leadership; Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB).<\/p>\n

Courses Taught: Group Dynamics and Leadership<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n Jenna Rubenstein, PhD\n\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Lecturer<\/p>\n

Areas of Expertise: Leadership Development; Change Leadership; Engagement and Culture; Organization Development;<\/p>\n

Courses Taught: Group Dynamics and Leadership; Internship<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n Naomi Grewal, PhD\n\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Lecturer<\/p>\n

Areas of Expertise: User Experience Research; Consumer Behavior; People Analytics; Decision-Making; Leadership<\/p>\n

Courses Taught: Proseminar in Human Behavior (Foundations)<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n Lexi Keaveney Breitz, PhD\n\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Lecturer<\/p>\n

Areas of Expertise: User Experience Research, Decision-Making, Social Psychology, Quantitative Methods<\/p>\n

Courses Taught: User Experience Research<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n Luke Thelen, PhD\n\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Lecturer<\/p>\n

Areas of Expertise: Quantitative Methods<\/p>\n

Courses Taught: Research Methods, Advanced Quantitative Methods<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n Khatera Sahibzada, PhD\n\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Lecturer<\/p>\n

Areas of Expertise: Employee Assessment and Selection; Leadership Development; Performance Management<\/p>\n

Courses Taught: Employee Selection and Assessment<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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