Karissa Beesley
Karissa Beesley is a PhD student in the Personality and Social Contexts area of psychology. Her research interests examine employee well-being, emerging technology in the workplace, and professional identity. Her current research focuses on how the rise of generative AI may be shaping the professional and personal identities of workers in creative industries.
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Corrinne Chase
Corrinne Chase is a PhD student in the Joint Program in Psychology and Women’s and Gender Studies. Her research interests broadly include gender socialization, sexual violence, and reproductive justice. More specifically, she is looking at protective factors to masculinity contest culture in the workplace. Additionally, she is interested in studying the gender socialization of young people through the use of social media, including the adultification of young girls and the normalization of violence for young boys.
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Silvia Navarro Hernandez
Silvia Navarro Hernandez is pursuing a Joint PhD in Psychology and Women’s and Gender Studies. Research interests are focused on the experiences of food service workers, farm workers, and those identified as “essential” during COVID-19. Specifically looking into the impact of intersectional identities of race, socioeconomic status, immigration status, and gender to measure the impact of work demands on their mental and physical health in long-term workers.
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Sherlock (Mingjia) Liu
Sherlock (Mingjia) Liu is a Ph.D. student in the Personality and Social Contexts area of Psychology. She earned her M.S. in Psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and her B.A. in Psychology and Sociology from the University of British Columbia. Sherlock’s research interests center on two main areas: (1) women of color’s leadership experiences and treatment in the workplace, and (2) racial identity-based stereotypes and cross-racial relationships. Outside of research, she enjoys bouldering, café hopping, and traveling.
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Evita Schaefer
Evita Schaefer is a PhD candidate in Psychology in the Personality and Social Contexts area. She earned her BSc in Psychology from the Universität Regensburg and her MSc in Psychology from the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg in Germany. She gained applied experience through internships at multinational companies, including BMW and Bosch. Her research examines how career-related conversations between immigrant parents and their children, for example, about the “American Dream,” shape the career development of second-generation immigrants.
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Yuliya Shyrokonis
Yuliya Shyrokonis is a Doctoral Candidate in the Joint PhD Program in Social Work and Social Science (Clinical Psychology). She is interested in predictors, outcomes, and treatments of multiple types of interpersonal violence, including domestic, sexual, police, and military violence. Yuliya’s dissertation work focuses on moral injury among military veterans. Yuliya is co-advised by Drs. Lisa Fedina and Lilia Cortina.
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Doctoral Alumni
Jessica Kiebler, PhD 2024
Allura Casanova, PhD 2023
Mayra del Carmen, PhD 2023
Kathrina (Kathy) Robotham, PhD 2021
Emily Vargas, PhD 2019
Kevin Goodman, PhD 2018
Kathryn (Katy) Holland, PhD 2017
Verónica (Veró) Caridad Rabelo, PhD 2017
Rita Seabrook, PhD 2017
Cathleen Clerkin, PhD 2013
Melanie Henderson, PhD 2013
Elma Lorenzo-Blanco, PhD 2013
Dana Kabat-Farr, PhD 2012
Emily Leskinen, PhD 2012
Lisa Marchiondo, PhD 2012
Quyen Ngo, PhD 2011
Nicky Newton, PhD 2011
Brianna Barker Caza, PhD 2007
Marisela Huerta, PhD 2007
Perry Silverschanz, PhD 2006
Cindy Torges, PhD 2006
Julie Konik, PhD 2005
Sandy Geok Peng Lim, PhD 2005
Kathi Miner, PhD 2004
Sheryl Pimlott Kubiak, PhD 2002