Faculty & Staff

Faculty

Mark Hallahan

Associate Professor
Chair, Department of Psychology
Ph.D., Harvard University
Fields: Social psychology, person perception, impression formation, causal attribution
Email:mhallaha@holycross.edu 
Office: Beaven 328 PO Box 164A Phone: (508) 793-2279
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Florencia Anggoro

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Professor
Ph.D., Northwestern University
Fields: Language and conceptual development; science learning; relational thinking; culture and cognition
Email: fanggoro@holycross.edu 
Office: Beaven 323 PO Box: 224A Phone: (508) 793-2748
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Alo C. Basu

Associate Professor
Ph.D., Harvard University
Fields: Neurobiology of learning and memory, stress-related neuroplasticity, genetic and environmental risk factors for neuropsychiatric disorders
Email:abasu@holycross.edu 
Office: Beaven 403A PO Box:107A Phone: (508) 793-3750
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Noah Berman

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Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Fields: Clinical psychology; obsessive compulsive disorder and related conditions (e.g., body dysmorphia; trichotillomania); cognitive-behavioral therapy
Email: nberman@holycross.edu
Office: Beaven 316  PO Box: 38A      Phone: 508-793-2668
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Daniel Bitran

Daniel Bitran Professor Psychology

Professor
Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo
Fields: Behavioral neuroscience, psychopharmacology, and biological psychiatry; role of science and medicine in the Holocaust.
Email:dbitran@holycross.edu 
Office: Beaven 426 PO Box: 39A Phone: (508) 793-3329
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Alexander Browman

Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Northwestern University
Fields: Motivation; self and identity; societal and classroom conditions that influence academic motivation, learning, and achievement; economic inequality; youth and young adults from less advantaged backgrounds
Email: abrowman@holycross.edu
Office: Beaven 332 PO Box: 38A  Phone: (508) 793-3761
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Danuta Bukatko

Professor
Affiliate, Women's and Gender Studies
Ph.D., University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Fields: Child development, cognitive development in early childhood including memory and representation, social cognition, gender-role development
Email:dbukatko@holycross.edu 
Office: Beaven 322 PO Box: 175A Phone: (508) 793-3433
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Lindsey Caola

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Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Boston College
Fields: Developmental psychology; adolescent development, college student motivation and well-being, educational psychology; math learning
Emaillcaola@holycross.edu
Office : Beaven Hall 334 Phone: (508) 793-3429

 

 

Stephenie R. Chaudoir

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Professor
Ph.D., University of Connecticut
Fields: Social and health psychology, stigma, disclosure, HIV/AIDS and other concealable stigmatized identities, health disparities
Email:schaudoi@holycross.edu 
Office: Beaven 326 PO Box: 125A Phone: 508-793-3620
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Michael Creane

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Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley 
FieldsMoral Development; Cross-cultural human development; Developmental changes in reasoning about deception; and Transactive discourse
Email: mcreane@holycross.edu
Office: Beaven 335-F Phone: (508) 793-3987

 

Gregory J. DiGirolamo

Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Oregon
Fields:  Cognitive neuroscience, cognitive control and its disturbance, visual attention
Email:gdigirol@holycross.edu 
Office: Beaven 402 PO Box: 216A Phone: (508) 793-3595
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Elianny Edwards

Elianny Edwards

Assistant Professor
Ph.D., UCLA
Fields: School Climate & Safety; Black Youth in Schools; Race, Class, & Gender in U.S Education; Adolescent Development & Psychosocial Outcomes of Schooling; Community Contexts; Critical & Decolonial Perspectives in Psychology; Critical Wellness
Email: eedwards@holycross.edu 
Office: Beaven Hall Rm 336 Phone: 508-793-3569
Lab: Beaven Hall Rm 335-B, HEEL at Holy Cross


 

Mark Freeman

Professor Emeritus of Ethics and Society
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Fields: History and philosophy of psychology; the self; narrative psychology; psychology of art and creativity
Email:mfreeman@holycross.edu 
Office: Beaven 331  PO Box: 26A  Phone: (508) 793-3081
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Jumi Hayaki

Professor
Health Professions Advising
Ph.D., Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
Fields: Clinical psychology; eating disorders; substance use disorders; emotional dysregulation
Email: jhayaki@holycross.edu 
Office: Fenwick 116 PO Box 217A Phone: (508) 793-2612
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Neal E. Lipsitz

Distinguished Visiting Lecturer
Ph.D., Boston College
Fields: Counseling
Email: nlipsitz@holycross.edu 
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Alison Bryant Ludden

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Professor
Ph.D., University of Michigan
Fields: Adolescent development, youth risk and resiliency, motivation and schooling, adolescents' use of caffeine and other substances, and civic engagement
Email:aludden@holycross.edu
Office: Beaven 334 PO Box 114A Phone: (508) 793-3898
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Lijing (Lily) Ma

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Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Saint Louis University
Fields: social psychology, close relationships, sexuality, physical and mental health
Email: lma@holycross.edu
Office: Beaven 409-B Phone: (508) 793-2665

 

 

Robert Paul Malchow

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Visiting Professor
Ph.D. SUNY Stony Brook
Fields: Neuroscience & Sensory Physiology
Emailrmalchow@holycross.edu
Office: Swords 234 Phone: (508) 793-3069

 

 

Ruth McLeod

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Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Connecticut 
Fields of interest: Behavioral Neuroscience, perinatal neurodevelopment, early brain injury, premature infant brain injury, treatment and outcomes.
Email: rmcleod@holycross.edu
Office:  Beaven Hall, 335-F Phone: (508) 793-2201

 

Ryan Mruczek

Associate Professor
Ph.D., Brown University
Fields: Primate vision, object and tool representations, experience-dependent plasticity, visual illusions, systems neuroscience methods
Emailrmruczek@holycross.edu
Office: Beaven 403B   PO Box: 38A   Phone: (508)793-2328
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Jad Nasrini

Jad Nasrini

Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Emory University
Fields: Animal cognition, working memory, social learning
Email: jnasrini@holycross.edu
Office: Beaven Hall Rm 410  Phone: (508) 793-3813

 

 

Muhammad Ali Qadri

Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Tufts University
Fields: Animal cognition, comparative psychology, animal behavior, visual perception, action recognition, decision making
Email: mqadri@holycross.edu
Office: Beaven 410 PO Box: 38A  Phone: (508) 793-3760
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Anurag Rimzhim

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Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Connecticut
Fields: Cognitive Science, Psycholinguistics, Reading, Virtual Reality, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Email: arimzhim@holycross.edu
Office:  Beaven 409-A PO BoxPhone: 508-793-3933
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Özge Savaș

Ozge Savas

Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Michigan
Fields: Decolonial feminist psychology; Intersectionality; Politics; Migration;Globalization
Email: osavas@holycross.edu
Office: Beaven Hall Rm 331  Phone: (508) 793-3375

 

 

 

Richard Schmidt

Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts
Ph.D., University of Connecticut
Fields: Cognitive Science, interpersonal coordination, interlimb coordination, dynamical theories of behavior, ecological psychology
Emailrschmidt@holycross.edu 
Office: Beaven 330 PO Box 176A Phone: (508) 793-2244
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Colleen Smith

Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Syracuse University
Fields: Psychology; Social Psychology
Email: cjsmith@holycross.edu
Office: Beaven 409-B PO Box: 38A  Phone: (508) 793-3843
 

 

Francis Stevens

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Assistant Visiting Professor
Ph.D., Tennessee State University
Fields: Clinical Affective Neuroscience
Email: fstevens@holycross.edu
Office: Beaven Hall Rm 316 Phone: (508)-793-3983

 

 

Staff

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Laura Cortés 
Administrative Assistant
Emaillcortes@holycross.edu
Office: Beaven 327 PO Box 38A Phone: (508) 793-3578

 

 

 

Kayla Joyce

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 Lab Supervisor
Office:  Beaven 329 Phone: (508) 793-2792.
Emailkjoyce@holycross.edu

 

 

 

Faculty Emeriti

John F. Axelson

Professor, Emeritus
Ph.D., Tulane University
Fields: Neuroendocrinology, hormones and behavior, neuroanatomy, health and medicine
Email: jaxelson@holycross.edu 
 

 

Patricia E. Kramer

Associate Professor Emerita
Charles A. Dana Faculty Fellow and Associate Professor
Ph.D., Columbia University
Fields: Visual perception, face perception
Email: pkramer@holycross.edu 
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Charles Weiss

Associate Professor Emeritus
Email: cweiss@holycross.edu
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Suzanne Kirschner

Professor Emerita
Ed.D., Harvard University
Fields: History and philosophy of psychology; cultural psychology; sociocultural studies of psychology/psychiatry; theories of personality
Email: skirschn@holycross.edu 
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Charles M. Locurto

Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., Fordham University
Fields: Animal behavior, comparative intelligence, individual differences in animal problem solving, behavioral genetics
Email:clocurto@holycross.edu
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