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Faculty

Kristin Buss, Ph.D.

Psychology Department Head
Tracy Winfree and Ted H. McCourtney Professor in Children, Work, and Families and Professor of Psychology & Human Development and Family Studies
Accepting graduate students for fall 2022
Pronouns: she/her/hers

(814) 865-9514

kbuss@psu.edu

Katharine Donnelly Adams

Assistant Teaching Professor
Pronouns: she/her/hers

(814) 865-7360

kda11@psu.edu

Rina D. Eiden, Ph.D.

Professor of Psychology; Consortium for Combating Substance Abuse. Associate Editor of Child Development.
Pronouns: she/her/hers

(814) 863-7767

rde5106@psu.edu

Rick Gilmore, Ph.D.

Professor of Psychology
Pronouns: he/him/his

(814) 865-3664

rog1@psu.edu

Lynn Liben, Ph.D.

Evan Pugh University Professor of Psychology, Human Development and Family Studies, and Education
Pronouns: she/her/hers

(814) 863-1718

liben@psu.edu

Erika Lunkenheimer, Ph.D.

Professor of Psychology
Associate Director of Education, Child Maltreatment Solutions Network
Accepting graduate students for fall 2022
Pronouns: she/her/hers

(814) 863-1991

ezl5238@psu.edu

Sarah Myruski, Ph.D.

Assistant Research Professor
Pronouns: she/her/hers

(814) 865-9514

sfm6016@psu.edu

Jenae Neiderhiser, Ph.D.

Associate Department Head for Research,
Distinguished Professor of Psychology and
Human Development and Family Studies
Accepting graduate students for fall 2022
Pronouns: she/her/hers

(814) 865-4818

jenaemn@psu.edu

Koraly Perez-Edgar, Ph.D.

McCourtney Professor of Child Studies and Professor of Psychology
Pronouns: she/her/hers

(814) 865-9272

kxp24@psu.edu

Suzy Scherf, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Psychology
Accepting graduate students for fall 2022
Pronouns: she/her/hers

(814) 867-2921

suzyscherf@psu.edu

Janet van Hell, Ph.D.

Professor of Psychology and Linguistics
Co-Director of the Center for Language Science
Pronouns: she/her/hers

(814) 867-2337

jgv3@psu.edu

Dawn Witherspoon, Ph.D.

McCourtney Family Early Career Professor in Psychology; Associate Professor, Developmental Area
Accepting graduate students for fall 2022
Pronouns: she/her/hers

(814) 867-3112

dpw14@psu.edu