Psychology Faculty

Shawn Aarde, Adjunct Assistant Professor

PhD, University of California at Los Angeles

 

Meaghan N. Altman, Instructor

PhD, Purdue University

Specialty: Integrative neuroscience

Jared B. Bagley, Adjunct Assistant Professor

PhD, University of California at Berkeley

 

Christina M. Balderrama-Durbin, Associate Professor

BA, University of Colorado at Boulder; MA, University of Colorado at Denver; PhD, Texas A&M University

Specialty: Co-morbid psychological and intimate relationship distress, particularly intra- and interpersonal reactions to acute stress and trauma

Christopher R. Bishop, Professor

BA, Hope College; MA, PhD, Wayne State University

Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2017-2018

Affiliated: Center for Development and Behavioral Neuroscience (CDBN); First-Year Research Immersion (FRI); Integrative Neuroscience Program; Center for Advanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging Science (CAMRIS)

Specialty: Parkinson's disease; neuroplasticity; drug development

Jason M. Blackwell, Adjunct Assistant Professor

BA, Wichita State University; MA, PhD, 绿帽社 (SUNY)

 

Nicole M. Cameron, Associate Professor

PhD, Boston University

Affiliated: Biological Sciences; Center for Development and Behavioral Neuroscience (CDBN); Developmental Exposure Alcohol Research Center (DEARC); Integrated Electronics Engineering Center (IEEC); Integrative Neuroscience Program

Specialty: The effects of early environment on the neuroendocrine system; mood disorders and alcohol abuse

Gregory Carlson, Lecturer

PhD, University of Maryland-Baltimore

Affiliated: Integrative Neuroscience Program

Meredith E. Coles, Professor

BA, Dickinson College; MA, PhD, Temple University

Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities, 2013-2014

Affiliated: Center for Development and Behavioral Neuroscience (CDBN); Center of Biomanufacturing for Regenerative Medicine (CBRM); Center for Advanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging Science (CAMRIS)

Specialty: Nature and treatment of anxiety in adults and children, particularly social phobia and obsessive-compulsive disorder, role of sleep and circadian rhythms in psychopathology

Cynthia M. Connine, Professor Emerita

PhD, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

 

Stefania Conte, Assistant Professor

PhD, University of Milano-Bicocca

Specialty: Experimental psychology, linguistics, and cognitive neuroscience

Terrence Deak, Professor

BS, Bowling Green State University; MA, PhD, University of Colorado

Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities, 2010-2011

Affiliated: Center for Development and Behavioral Neuroscience (CDBN); Developmental Exposure Alcohol Research Center (DEARC); First-Year Research Immersion (FRI); Integrative Neuroscience Program; Center for Advanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging Science (CAMRIS)

Specialty: Stress responsive systems; neuroendocrinology; neural-immune interactions; behavior

Patricia M. Di Lorenzo, Professor

BS, PhD, University of Rochester

Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities, 2006-2007

Affiliated: Center for Development and Behavioral Neuroscience (CDBN); Evolutionary Studies Program (EvoS); Integrative Neuroscience Program

Specialty: Neural code for taste

Marvin Diaz, Associate Professor

BS, University of North Carolina - Wilmington; MA, PhD, Wake Forest University School of Medicine

Affiliated: Center for Development and Behavioral Neuroscience (CDBN); Developmental Exposure Alcohol Research Center (DEARC); Integrative Neuroscience Program

Specialty: Fetal alcohol and drug; alcoholism; synaptic physiology; neurodevelopment

Lanora Duell, Adjunct Lecturer

MA, PsyD, Alfred University

Specialty: School psychology; assessment and treatment of children and adults with disabilities

Michael R. Dulas, Assistant Professor

PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology

Specialty: Cognitive neuroscience, aging

Jerry D. Duvinsky, Adjunct Lecturer

Sheri E. Esteban-Elie, Adjunct Lecturer

Arthur W. Frenz, Adjunct Lecturer

Alice G. Friedman, Associate Professor

BA, Goucher College; MS, PhD, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Specialty: Clinical psychology

Peter C. Gerhardstein, Professor

BA, Carleton College; PhD, University of Minnesota

Affiliated: Center for Cognitive Applications (CAPS); Center for Development and Behavioral Neuroscience (CDBN); Center for Imaging, Acoustics and Perception Science (CIAPS); Integrative Neuroscience ProgramCenter for Advanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging Science (CAMRIS)

Specialty: Visual perception and memory and the development of abilities in these areas

Brandon E. Gibb, Professor

BA, University of Georgia; MA, PhD, Temple University

Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities, 2012-2013

Affiliated: Center for Development and Behavioral Neuroscience (CDBN); Institute for Justice and Well-Being (IJWB); Center for Advanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging Science (CAMRIS)

Specialty: Factors that contribute to the development and maintenance of depression across the lifespan (genetic, molecular, neural, physiological, behavioral, environmental, and developmental)

Jennifer Gillis Mattson, Professor

BA, MA, PhD, 绿帽社 (SUNY)

University Award for Excellence in International Education, 2021-2022

Affiliated: Institute for Child Development (ICD); Institute for Justice and Well-Being (IJWB); Center for Development and Behavioral Neuroscience (CDBN)

Specialty: Autism Spectrum Disorder; barriers to effective intervention; parent and provider training and well-being

Thomas P. Harding, Lecturer

PhD, Fairleigh Dickinson University

Specialty: Psychological and forensic assessment; disability determinations

Laura Haus, Adjunct Assistant Professor

PsyD, Chestnut Hill College

William M. Hayes, Assistant Professor

PhD, University of South Carolina

Specialty: Cognitive neuroscience

Jessica Hussar Boyle, Adjunct Lecturer

Albrecht W. Inhoff, Professor Emeritus

PhD, University of Massachusetts

University Award for Excellence in Graduate Mentoring, 2009-2010; Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities, 2003-2004

J. David Jentsch, Professor

BA,  Johns Hopkins University; MA, PhD, Yale University

Affiliated: Center for Development and Behavioral Neuroscience (CDBN); Developmental Exposure Alcohol Research Center (DEARC); Integrative Neuroscience Program; Center for Advanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging Science (CAMRIS)

Specialty: Behavior genetics of impulsivity, incentive motivation and drug self-administration; neural circuitry involved in susceptibility for addictions; neurobiology of reinforcement learning

Matthew D. Johnson, Professor

BA, University of Denver; MA, PhD, University of California at Los Angeles

Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2012-2013

Affiliated: Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program (WGSS)

Specialty: Marriage and family functioning

Anushree N. Karkhanis, Assistant Professor

BA, PhD, Rutgers University

Affiliated: Center for Development and Behavioral Neuroscience (CDBN); Developmental Exposure Alcohol Research Center (DEARC); Integrative Neuroscience Program; First-Year Research Immersion (FRI); Center for Advanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging Science (CAMRIS)

Specialty: Neurobiology of addiction vulnerability, alcoholism, monoaminergic transmission, impact of adolescent stress and drug exposure on subsequent stress, reward, and pain processing

Celia M. Klin, Dean and Professor

BS, Cornell University; MS, PhD, University of Massachusetts

Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Faculty Service, 2012-2013; Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1998-1999

Affiliated: Center for Cognitive Applications (CAPS); Linguistics Program

Specialty: Psycholinguistics; reading; comprehension memory for text; Judeo-Spanish and Spanish linguistics

Adam R. Krantweiss, Adjunct Lecturer

Kenneth J. Kurtz, Professor

BS, Brown University; PhD, Stanford University

Affiliated: Center for Cognitive Applications (CAPS); Center for Information Assurance and Cybersecurity (CIAC); Evolutionary Studies Program (EvoS); Center for Advanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging Science (CAMRIS)

Specialty: Concepts and category learning; similarity and analogy; neural network models of cognition; knowledge representation

Mark F. Lenzenweger, SUNY Distinguished Professor

BA, Cornell University; MA, PhD, Yeshiva University

Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities, 2005-2006

Specialty: Schizophrenia and schizotypy; longitudinal study of personality disorders; quantitative methods

Donald J. Levis, Professor Emeritus

PhD, Emory University

Sung-Joo Lim, Assistant Professor

BS, PhD, Carnegie Mellon University

Affiliated: Center for Cognitive Applications (CAPS); Integrative Neuroscience Program; Center for Advanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging Science (CAMRIS)

Specialty: Auditory cognitive neuroscience, speech perception and communication, multi-modal neuroimaging (fMRI, EEG)

Stephen A. Lisman, SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus

PhD, Rutgers University

Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Faculty Service, 2005-2006; University Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching, 1987-1988

Affiliated: Center for Development and Behavioral Neuroscience (CDBN)

Steven Jay Lynn, SUNY Distinguished Professor

BA, University of Michigan; PhD, Indiana University

Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities, 2002-2003

Affiliated: Evolutionary Studies Program (EvoS); Center for Advanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging Science (CAMRIS)

Specialty: Clinical applications of cognitive psychology, hypnosis, experimental psychopathology, psychology of consciousness, sleep and dissociation, memory trauma and risk prevention, and science versus pseudoscience

Nadine Mastroleo, Associate Professor

BA, University at Buffalo (SUNY); MA, University of San Diego; PhD, Pennsylvania State University

Affiliated: Center for Development and Behavioral Neuroscience (CDBN); Developmental Exposure Alcohol Research Center (DEARC); Integrative Neuroscience Program

Specialty: College student drinking; college student athletes; motivational interviewing; prevention and intervention science; quantitative methods

Richard Mattson, Associate Professor

BA, SUNY Geneseo; MA, PhD, 绿帽社 (SUNY)

Affiliated: Center for Development and Behavioral Neuroscience (CDBN)

Specialty: Processes, perceptions, and attitudes relevant to communication in intimate dyads across a wide range of important domains; including social support, conflict; intimate partner violence, sexual consent, and intimate touch

Ann M. Merriwether, Instructor

BA, MA, PhD, Pennsylvania State University

Provost鈥檚 Award for Excellence in Teaching 2013; Harpur College Teaching Award (Large Lecture Category), 2016


Affiliated: Evolutionary Studies Program (EvoS), Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program (WGSS), 绿帽社 Scholars Program

Ralph R. Miller, SUNY Distinguished Professor

BS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; MS (Physics), MS (Psychology), PhD, Rutgers University

University Award for Excellence in Graduate Mentoring, 2004-2005; University Award for Excellence in Research, 1996-1997

Affiliated: Center for Cognitive Applications (CAPS); Evolutionary Studies Program (EvoS); Integrative Neuroscience Program

Specialty: Elementary information processing (humans/animals)

Richard E. Pastore, SUNY Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus

PhD, Purdue University

Joshua A. Peck, Adjunct Associate Professor

PhD, The City University of New York (CUNY)

Brittany N. Race, Lecturer

BA, MA,PhD,  University of Arkansas at Fayetteville

Raymond G. Romanczyk, SUNY Distinguished Service Professor

BA, Stony Brook University (SUNY); MS, PhD, Rutgers University

Lois B. DeFleur Award for Academic Achievement at 绿帽社, 2014

Affiliated: Institute for Child Development (ICD); Center for Development and Behavioral Neuroscience (CDBN)

Specialty: Autism spectrum disorders; professional ethics; applied behavior analysis; behavior therapy; technology application to human services; large scale service delivery systems

Maria Teresa Romero, Associate Professor Emerita

PhD, Associate Professor

Lisa M. Savage, Professor

BA, University of Minnesota at Duluth; PhD, University of Minnesota at Minneapolis

Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities, 2014-2015; Provost's Award for Faculty Excellence in Undergraduate Research Mentoring, 2013-2014

Affiliated: Center for Development and Behavioral Neuroscience (CDBN); Developmental Exposure Alcohol Research Center (DEARC); Integrative Neuroscience Program

Specialty: Animal models of memory disorders; neurobiology of memory and reward

Stanley R. Scobie, Associate Professor Emeritus

PhD, Princeton University

Jiyun Elizabeth Shin, Lecturer

BA, SUNY Geneseo; PhD, Stony Brook University (SUNY)

Affiliated: Ellyn Uram Kaschak Institute for Social Justice for Women and Girls

Norman E. Spear, SUNY Distinguished Professor Emeritus

PhD, Northwestern University

Lois B. DeFleur Award for Academic Achievement at 绿帽社, 2013; University Award in Excellence in Research, 1994-1995

Andrew Strouthes, Associate Professor Emeritus

PhD, Temple University

Cyma K. Van Petten, Professor

BA, Reed College; PhD, University of California at San Diego

Affiliated: Center for Cognitive Applications (CAPS); Integrative Neuroscience Program; Linguistics Program

Specialty: Language processing, focusing on sentence comprehension and the interface between semantic processing and spoken word identification. Memory, with an emphasis on executive processes that contribute to memory and the role of prefrontal cortex

Lena Varlinskaya, Research Professor

Affiliated: Center for Development and Behavioral Neuroscience (CDBN); Developmental Exposure Alcohol Research Center (DEARC); Integrative Neuroscience Program

Florence P. Varodayan, Assistant Professor

MPhil, PhD, Columbia University

SUNY Chancellor鈥檚 Early-Career Scholar, 2020

Affiliated: Center for Development and Behavioral Neuroscience (CDBN); Developmental Exposure Alcohol Research Center (DEARC); Integrative Neuroscience Program

Specialty: Alcohol use disorder, cognitive function; neuropharmacology; synaptic transmission; neuroimmune signaling

David F. Werner, Associate Professor

BS, Ashland University; PhD, University of Pittsburgh

Affiliated: Center for Development and Behavioral Neuroscience (CDBN); Developmental Exposure Alcohol Research Center (DEARC); Evolutionary Studies Program (EvoS); Integrative Neuroscience Program; Center for Advanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging Science (CAMRIS)

Specialty: Alcohol and anesthetic action; addiction; neuroplasticity; neuropharmacology; molecular genetics

Deanne L. Westerman, Professor

BS, John Carroll University; MA, PhD, Case Western Reserve University

Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2002-2003

Affiliated: Center for Cognitive Applications (CAPS); Center for Advanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging Science (CAMRIS)

Specialty: Human memory

Emily Zale, Assistant Professor

BA, University of Rochester; MS, Texas A&M University; PhD, Syracuse University

Affiliated: Center for Development and Behavioral Neuroscience (CDBN); Center for Imaging, Acoustics and Perception Science (CIAPS); Integrative Neuroscience Program

Specialty: Behavioral medicine and health psychology, with an emphasis on substance use (e.g., smoking, alcohol) and pain