Get to Know the Department of Psychological Science

The Department of Psychological Science is dedicated to fostering academic excellence, research innovation, and student success. With a diverse faculty committed to advancing the field of psychology, we offer a dynamic learning environment for students pursuing undergraduate and graduate studies. Whether you're seeking faculty expertise, research opportunities, or student resources, our department is here to support you.

Explore our programs, connect with our experienced faculty, and discover how we contribute to the understanding of human behavior.

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Contact Information

Campus Location

Kennesaw Campus
Social Sciences Building (402), Rm 4030

Email, Phone, & Fax

Phone: (470) 578-6225
Fax: (470) 578-9146                           Email: psychology@kennesaw.edu

Mailing Address

Department of Psychological Science
402 Bartow Ave NW
Kennesaw, Georgia, 30144

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Faculty & Staff

Listed below are the current faculty and staff for the Department of Psychological Science at Kennesaw State University.

Administration

Name
Position
  • Corinne McNamara, Chair of the Department of Psychological Science and Professor of
                                    Psychology at KSU

    Chair of the Department of Psychological Science and Professor of Psychology

    cmcnama4@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6225
    SO 4034

    Area of Expertise: Neuroscience, Experimental Psychology

    Research Interests: Interpersonal violence

    Faculty website
  • Jennifer Willard, Associate Chair of the Department of Psychological Science and Professor
                                    of Psychology at KSU

    Associate Chair of the Department of Psychological Science and Professor of Psychology

    jwillar3@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6225
    SO 4038

    Area of Expertise: Social Psychology

    Research Interests: Social psychology (e.g., self-fulfilling prophecies and person perception); intersections between psychology and law (e.g., false confessions); scholarship of teaching and learning (e.g., cheating in higher education)

    Faculty website
  • Faculty Athletic Representative, Assistant Chair of the Department of Psychological Science and Associate Professor of Psychology

    dniederj@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6225
    SO 4016

    Area of Expertise: Clinical Psychology

    Research Interests: Fear related to post graduation plans, student-athlete academic performance, High Impact Practices (HIP), and increasing self-efficacy related to academic achievement

    Faculty website
  • Psychology Program Coordinator and Professor of Psychology

    dmarsil@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-3259
    SO 4040

    Faculty website
  • General Education Coordinator and Professor of Psychology

    ltaglial@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6225
    SO 4036

    Facutly website
  • Online Degree Program Coordinator and Senior Lecturer of Psychology

    awolfe7@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6225
    SO 2008

    Faculty website
  • Assessment Coordinator and Professor of Psychology

    awill176@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-4350
    SO 4014

    Faculty website
  • Erica Holliday, Research Coordinator and Assistant Professor of Psychology at KSU

    Assistant Professor of Psychology

    ehollid1@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-7820
    SO 4010

    Faculty website
  • Danyelle Denham, Administrative Assistant at KSU

    Administrative Assistant

    ddenham3@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6225
    SO 4030

  • Office Manager

    dlee23@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6225
    SO 4030

  • Destiny Pappas, Program Coordinator at KSU

    Academic Program Support Specialist

    ddotson2@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6225
    SO 4030

Full-Time Faculty

Name
Position
  • Anisah Bagasra, Associate Professor of Psychology at KSU

    Associate Professor of Psychology

    abagasra@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-5254
    SO 2003

    Research Interests: Mental health disparities; behavioral health research in college student populations (HBCU); religious commitment and acculuration among Mulsim Americans

    Faculty website
  • Senior Lecturer of Educational Psychology

    mbankhe1@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6225
    SO 2010

    Area of Expertise: Educational Psychology

    Faculty website
  • Associate Professor of Psychology

    sbeshai@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6225
    LB 4226

    Faculty website
  • Amy Buddie, Director of Undergraduate Research and Professor of Psychology at KSU

    Director of Undergraduate Research and Professor of Psychology

    abuddie@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6255
    ALC 5501

  • Assistant Professor of Psychology

    ccease@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6225
    SO 4013

    Faculty website
  • Associate Dean for Student Success and Engagement and Professor of Psychology

    hchen33@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-2566
    SO 5009

  • Assistant Professor of Psychology

    tcollet1@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6225
    HSE 51 (3217) 108

    Research Interests: Mechanisms for risk and resilience after trauma, cross-cultural psychology, health disparities, and research design

  • Assistant Professor of Psychology

    acrens13@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6225
    SO 2017A

    Faculty website
  • Patrick Devine, Professor of Psychology at KSU

    Professor of Psychology

    pdevine@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6225
    SO 4002

    Faculty website
  • Lecturer of Psychology

    adimercu@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6225
    SO 2002

    Faculty website
  • Professor of Psychology

    rdonova4@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6920
    SO 2003

    Area of Expertise: Clinical Psychology & Certificate in Women's Studies

    Research Interests: Inclusion, diversity, and equity including ally development, social justice education, and social justice parenting

    Faculty website
  • Associate Professor of Educational Psychology

    oedward4@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-5212
    SO 4023

    Faculty website
  • Ebony Glover, Associate Professor of Neuroscience at KSU

    Associate Professor of Neuroscience

    eglove12@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-4281
    UC 226

    Area of Expertise: Neoroscience and Animal Behavior

    Research Interests: Biological and social basis of affective behaviors (such as fear and anxiety) and their implications for mental health

    Faculty website
  • Lecturer of Psychology

    aguitar@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6225
    SO 2002B

    Faculty website
  • Jeffrey Helms, Professor at KSU

    Professor of Psychology

    jhelms@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6225
    SO 4030

    Area of Expertise: Clinical Psychology 

    Research Interests: Scholarship of teaching and understanding attitudes and prejudice towards individuals who identify as bisexual

    Faculty website
  • Chanler Hilley, assistant professor at KSU

    Assistant Professor of Psychology

    chilley2@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6225
    SO 4011

    Research Interests: Transition to adulthood; behavioral health; risk & resilience; prevention science; positive youth development

    Faculty website
  • Assistant Professor of Psychology

    ehollid1@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-7820
    SO 4010

    Faculty website
  • Associate Professor of Psychology

    khoran1@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6225
    H51-3217 104A

    Research Interests: Occupational health psychology, workplace safety and health interventions, high-risk occupations, health behaviors

    Faculty website
  • Professor of Psychology

    kjung2@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-7447
    SO 4018

    Area of Expertise: Experimental Psychology 

    Faculty website
  • Assistant Professor of Psychology

    sjustus2@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-2633
    SO 4021

    Research Interests: Episodic memory, autism spectrum disorder, emotion, cognition

    Faculty website
  • Assistant Professor of Psychology

    dkuliber@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6225
    SO 2015

    Faculty website
  • Lecturer of Psychology

    elair@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6225
    SO 4015

    Area of Expertise: Social Psychology and Quantitative Methods

    Research Interests: Affect and cognitive information processing styles; intersection of social cognition and clinical psychology, specifically risk, resilience, and coping

    Faculty website
  • Suma Mallavarapu, professor at KSU

    Professor of Psychology

    smallava@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6225
    SO 4008

    Faculty website
  • Psychology Program Coordinator and Professor of Psychology

    dmarsil@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-3259
    SO 4040

    Faculty website
  • Associate Professor of Psychology

    tmarti61@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-2903
    SO 4011A

    Area of Expertise: Experimental Psychology

    Research Interests: Mesoscopic brain dynamics, motion perception, gaze dynamics, visual attention, dynamic attention, and the relationship between behavioral inhibition and neural inhibition; Past research has covered these topics as well as psychotherapy outcome (particularly in motivational interviewing) and recovery of cortical functions after stroke

    Faculty website
  • Associate Professor of Psychology

    nmarti40@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6225
    SO 4022

    Area of Expertise: Developmental Psychology

    Research Interests: Infant emotional development, the ontogeny of social referencing in infancy, post-adoption depression in mothers adopting children internationally, and gender and sexual development in children

    Faculty website
  • Associate Professor of Psychology

    alm8737@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-5211
    SO 4017

    Area of Expertise: Experimental Psychology

    Research Interests: Captive animal management, animal training, animal welfare, operant conditioning, applied behavior analysis

    Faculty website
  • Assistant Professor of Psychology

    cmashb10@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6225
    SO 4019

    Area of Expertise: Neuroscience, Experimental Psychology

    Research Interests: Interpersonal violence

    Faculty website
  • Corinne McNamara, Chair of the Department of Psychological Science and Professor of
                                    Psychology at KSU

    Chair of the Department of Psychological Science and Professor of Psychology

    cmcnama4@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6225
    SO 4034

    Area of Expertise: Neuroscience, Experimental Psychology

    Research Interests: Interpersonal violence

    Faculty website
  • Brian Moore, assistant professor at KSU

    Director of the Center for the Advancement of Military and Emergency Services Research and Associate Professor of Psychology

    bmoore50@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-7281
    House 3217 - 103

    Research Interests: Trauma, military psychology, resilience, sleep, health psychology

    Faculty website
  • Daniel Niederjohn, Assistant Chair, Faculty Athletic Representative and Associate
                                    Professor of Psychology at KSU

    Faculty Athletic Representative, Assistant Chair of the Department of Psychological Science and Associate Professor of Psychology

    dniederj@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6225
    SO 4016

    Area of Expertise: Clinical Psychology

    Research Interests: Fear related to post graduation plans, student-athlete academic performance, High Impact Practices (HIP), and increasing self-efficacy related to academic achievement

    Faculty website
  • Professor of Psychology

    spearcey@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6225
    SO 4020

    Faculty website
  • Professor of Psychology

    crandal2@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6225
    SO 4030

    Area of Expertise: Experimental Psychology

    Research Interests: Learning & behavior, comparative psychology, and evolutionary psychology

    Faculty website
  • Assistant Professor of Psychology

    hrheem@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-3011
    LB 4228

    Faculty website
  • Daniel Rogers, professor at KSU

    Professor of Psychology

    droger29@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6225
    SO 4024

    Area of Expertise: Clinical Psychology

    Research Interests: Scale development / measurement / psychometric; student-teacher alliance; majoring in psychology / career development / student advising; interpersonal functioning; psychoanalytic and psychodynamic theory

    Faculty website
  • Lecturer of Psychology

    csalnait@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6668
    SO 2013A

    Area of Expertise: Educational Psychology and Human Neuropsychology

    Research Interests: Neuropsychology, Executive Function, Cognition and Emotion, Diversity across the Curriculum

    Faculty website
  • Israel Sanchez-Cardona, associate professor at KSU

    Associate Director of the Center for the Advancement of Military and Emergency Services Research and Associate Professor of Psychology

    isanche7@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-7338
    House 3217

    Faculty website
  • Lecturer of Psychology

    ksargen4@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6225
    SO 2013B

  • Sandra Scheier, Lecturer of Psychology at KSU

    Lecturer of Psychology

    sscheier@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6225
    SO 2011A

    Area of Expertise: Clinical Psychology

    Research Interests: Physical health & mental well-being relationship, stress & coping, grit, and mindfulness. 

    Faculty website
  • Senior Lecturer of Psychology

    gscott12@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6883
    SO 2003

    Faculty website
  • Lecturer of Industrial/Organizational Psychology

    ksmit337@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6225
    SO 2011B

    Area of Expertise: Applied Industrial/Organizational Psychology

    Faculty website
  • Associate Director for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and Professor of Educational Psychology

    hsteiner@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6147
    House 3211 - 103

    Area of Expertise: Educational Psychology (Applied Cognition and Development)

    Research Interests: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), metacognition and self-regulated learning, postsecondary students' study strategies

    Faculty website
  • Tracie Stewart, Research Coordinator and Professor of Psychology at KSU

    Professor of Psychology

    tstewa44@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6244
    SO 5005B

    Area of Expertise: Psychological Science (Social Psychology)

    Research Interests: Intergroup Relations; Stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination: Causes and consequences of implicit biases and strategies to reduce their negative effects, Motivating social action, Individual differences in implicit and explicit intergroup biases; Cognitive and physiological measures of attitudes and social judgments; Pedagogical techniques for teaching multicultural perspectives: Development and assessment

    Faculty website
  • Associate Professor of Psychology

    pstory@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6594
    SO 2019A

    Research Interests: Basic and applied topics in Industrial/Organizational psychology

    Faculty website
  • General Education Coordinator and Professor of Psychology

    ltaglial@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6225
    SO 4036

    Faculty website
  • Jennifer Willard, Associate Chair of the Department of Psychological Science and Professor
                                    of Psychology at KSU

    Associate Chair of the Department of Psychological Science and Professor of Psychology

    jwillar3@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6225
    SO 4038

    Area of Expertise: Social Psychology

    Research Interests: Social psychology (e.g., self-fulfilling prophecies and person perception); intersections between psychology and law (e.g., false confessions); scholarship of teaching and learning (e.g., cheating in higher education)

    Faculty website
  • Assessment Coordinator and Professor of Psychology

    awill176@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-4350
    SO 4014

    Faculty website
  • Online Degree Program Coordinator and Senior Lecturer of Psychology

    awolfe7@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6225
    SO 2008

    Faculty website
  • Yian Xu, Assistant Professor at KSU

    Assistant Professor of Psychology

    yxu11@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-2334
    SO 4006

    Research Interests: Individual and cultural differences in essentialist thinking, as well as its implications in legal and clinical decision-making

    Faculty website
  • Professor of Psychology

    gzhan@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6225
    SO 4012

    Area of Expertise: Developmental Psychology

    Research Interests: Cross-cultural developmental topics, Asian-American identities, and teaching-related areas

    Faculty website
  • Dianhan Zheng, Associate Professor at KSU

    Associate Professor of Psychology

    dzheng4@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6225
    SO 2014

    Area of Expertise: Industrial/Organizational Psychology

    Research Interests: Employee-organization relationship, emotions in the workplace, and employee wellbeing

    Faculty website

Part-time and Limited Term Faculty

Name
Position
  • Part-Time Instructor of Psychology

    hagha1@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6225
    SO 4030

  • Part-Time Assistant Professor of Psychology

    calle177@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6225
    SO 4030

  • Part-Time Assistant Professor of Psychology

    ablalock@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6225
    SO 4030

  • Part-Time Instructor of Psychology

    kbutun@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6225
    SO 4030

  • Part-Time Assistant Professor of Psychology

    mrisi@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6225
    SO 4030

  • Part-Time Instructor of Psychology

    lendberg@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6225
    SO 4030

  • Part-Time Assistant Professor of Psychology

    kferrei4@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6225
    SO 4030

  • Limited Term Assistant Professor of Psychology

    egottste@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6225
    SO 4030

  • Part-Time Instructor of Psychology

    egriner2@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6225
    SO 4030

  • Part-Time Assistant Professor of Psychology

    jhill96@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6225
    SO 4030

  • Part-Time Assistant Professor of Psychology

    nmille64@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6225
    SO 4030

  • Extended LOA & Part-Time Assistant Professor of Psychology

    jingra35@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6600
    KH 2409

  • Part-Time Instructor of Psychology

    cwest112@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6225
    SO 4030

  • Part-Time Instructor of Psychology

    djk9723@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6225
    SO 4030

  • Part-Time Instructor of Psychology

    dkinney1@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6225
    SO 4030

  • Part-Time Assistant Professor of Psychology

    jlong88@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6225
    SO 4030

  • Graduate Programs Associate Director, MBA and WebMBA & Part-Time Instructor of Psychology

    sluthur@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6673
    KC 431

  • Limited Term Assistant Professor of Psychology

    smichae2@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6225
    SO 4030

  • Associate Director, Career Advising and Planning & Part-Time Instructor of Psychology

    amill324@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6555
    A 160H

  • Part-Time Instructor of Psychology

    cmoral37@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6225
    SO 4030

  • Part-Time Assistant Professor of Conflict Management and Psychology

    aneiner@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6225
    SO 4030

  • Part-Time Assistant Professor of Psychology

    wperezm1@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6225
    SO 4030

  • Psychologist & Part-Time Assistant Professor of Psychology

    srifkin@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6600
    KH 2419

  • Part-Time Instructor of Psychology

    asarris3@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6225
    SO 4030

  • Part-Time Assistant Professor of Psychology

    dschwar5@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6225
    SO 4030

  • Limited Term Assistant Professor of Psychology

    mswallow@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6225
    SO 4030

  • Part-Time Assistant Professor of Psychology

    mtoups@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6225
    SO 4030

  • Part-Time Assistant Professor of Psychology

    kwatkin7@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6225
    SO 4030

  • Part-Time Assistant Professor of Psychology

    jwil1489@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6225
    SO 4030

  • Part-Time Instructor of Psychology

    bwill533@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6225
    SO 4030

  • Part-Time Assistant Professor of Clinical and Counseling Psychology

    vwood4@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6225
    SO 4030

Emeriti Faculty

NAME POSITION
Michael Firment Associate Professor Emeritus
Grace Galliano Professor Emeritus
Ruth Hepler Professor Emeritus
William Hill, IV Professor Emeritus
Pam Marek Professor Emeritus
Linda Noble Professor Emeritus
Thomas Pusateri Professor Emeritus
Betty Siegel Professor Emeritus
Valerie Whittlesey Professor Emeritus
Christine Ziegler Professor Emeritus

Awards

Please join us in congratulating our 2021 Department of Psychological Science Faculty Award winners!

Dr. Jonathan Hill - RCHSS Part-Time Faculty Teaching Award

Dr. Tracie Stewart - RCHSS Outstanding Teaching Award

 

Past Award Winners 2020

Dr. Julia Brown-Rauton - RCHSS Part-Time Faculty Teaching Award

Dr. Jennifer Willard - RCHSS Outstanding Teaching Award

A trophy sitting on top of a pile of vintage books.

 

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