Student Directory and Profiles 2006-2007

Department Chair: Dr. Allan Wigfield
Graduate Director: Dr. Melanie Killen

Name	E-mail	Advisor	Area of Interest
Baek, Seunghyun	sbaek@umd.edu	Wang, Kushner	Second language acquisition
Baker, Sandra	sannbaker@yahoo.com	Wentzel	motivation, self-regulation
Baliber, Robyn	Balibear7@aol.com	Klein	Early childhood education
Barber, Carolyn	cbarber@umd.edu	Torney-Purta	Social psychology of education, educational inequality, school effects research, and social impacts of gifted education
Brenick, Alaina	abrenick@umd.edu	Killen	Social and moral development, stereotyping, teaching tolerance especially in Mid-East
Buskirk, Alli	abuskirk@gmail.com	Rubin	Peer Relationships
Cannon, Corinne	ccannon@umd.edu	Torney-Purta	Cultural modes of knowledge transfer, cognitive universals, cognition in context
Cheng, Chenxi	cxc@umd.edu	Wang	Reading acquisition
Coddington, Cassie	cshular@umd.edu	Guthrie	Reading and reading motivation
Costich, Claudine	ccostich@umd.edu	Alexander	Ed Psyc, motivation, teacher-student relationships, adolescent development
D'Amour, Ally	acd10@umd.edu	Jones Harden	Quality of childcare
Dashiell, Ebony	edashiell@yahoo.com	Rubin
Denmark, Nicole	ndenmark@umd.edu	Cabrera	Child care, social development, policy in early childhood education
Dinsmore, Dan	dinsmore@umd.edu	Alexander	Expertise, Teacher Education, Music Education
Duchene, Melissa	Melissa_Duchene@yahoo.com	Rubin
Dwyer, Kathleen	kdwyer@umd.edu	Rubin	Children's social and emotional development, attachment, parent-child peer relationships
Epstein, Dale	depstein@umd.edu	Cabrera	Parental involvement with minority at-risk children
Fountain, Lily	fountain@son.umaryland.edu	Alexander	Motivation, professional education
Fox, Emily	emilywfox@hotmail.com	Alexander	Reading expertise
Fredstrom, Bridget	bfred@umd.edu	Rubin	Children's peer relationships, sosical information processing & children's social & emotional development
Gao, Wei	wgao@umd.edu	Wang	Bilingual Cognitive Development, Learning Chinese as a second language
Ghera, Melissa	mghera@umd.edu	Fox	Mom-child relationships, social & emotional development
Geary, Anne	ageary@umd.edu	Jones-Harden	children with ADHD, emotion recognition
Greene, Jeff	jgreene@umd.edu	Torney-Purta	Self-regulated learning, personal epistemology, methods, statistics, learning, cognition
Guha, Mona Leigh	monaleigh@stonegatetech.com	Druin	Young children, technology development and story tellling
Guner, Bella Mironovna	gunerb@umd.edu	Cabrera	Developmental psychopathology
Hardin, Michael	mhardin@umd.edu, hardinm@mail.nih.gov	Fox	Social and emotional development; developmental psychopathy, cognitive neuroscience
Helfinstein, Sarah	shelfins@gmail.com	Fox
Henning, Alexandra (Sasha)	aih@umd.edu	Killen	Cultural influence on social and moral development
Herman, Khalisa	khalisaplay@gmail.com	Fox	Dev Sci
Hoa. Laurel	alwagner@umd.edu	Wigfield	Identity development in biracial young adults of Asian American and European American descent
Homana, Gary	sndysandman@msn.com	Torney-Purta	School climate and educational policy
Jackson, Amber	Jacksona33@yahoo.com	Wigfield	Acheivement motivation amongst middle school and high school adolescents
Jampol, Noah Simon	NSJampol@gmail.com	Killen	Moral Development, Morality and Identity Salience
Jolley, Stephanie	sjolley@umd.edu	Cabrera	Parenting of young children
Kelly, Megan Clark	mclark8@umd.edu	Killen	Social and moral development
Kempler, Sara		Klein	Early childhood education
Kim, Angel	angelkim@umd.edu	Rubin	Parenting styles in adolescence from a cross-cultural perspective
Kim, Bodlemam	bodlemam@hotmail.com	Klein	Classroom practices and children's stress behaviors in Korean child care centers
Klauda, Susan Lutz	susan3@umd.edu	Wigfield	Reading-motivation and comprehension
Ko, In Yeong	iyko@umd.edu	Wang	Language and reading acquisition
Kovacs, Sarrit	sarrit@umd.edu	Rubin	Parenting, parent-child relationships, children's self-esteem
Luke, Jessica	luke@ilinet.org	Torney-Purta	Learning in out-of-school contexts, in particular, museums
Maggioni, Liliana	liliana@hotmail.com	Alexander and VanSledright	Epiotemological beliefs, history teaching
Margie, Nancy Geyelin	ngmargie@yahoo.com	Killen	Moral reasoning, agression, implicit racial biases
Martin McDermott, Jennifer	jnmartin@umd.edu	Fox	Cognitive and emotional development in children
McRae, Angela	mcrae@umd.edu	Guthrie	Reading motivation
Menzer, Melissa	mmenzer@umd.edu	Rubin	Children and adolescent peer relationships
Monzo, Jamie	jcmonzo@umd.edu	Wentzel	Underrepresented students in education, achievement motivation, adolescent & social development
Moos, Dan	danmoos@msn.com	Azevedo	Self regulated learning with computer-based learning environments, motivation
Oh, Wonjung	wjoh@umd.edu or wonjung.oh@gmail.com	Rubin	Relations between relationship systems (eg. parent-child relationship, friendship) and their impact on adjustment such as internalizing problem
Olson, Evan	eolson01@yahoo.com	Azevedo	Cognition, technology, and self-regulated learning within the domains of math and physics
Park, Yoonjung	YJP@umd.edu	Killen	Children's social and moral reasoning about peer relationships
Parkinson, Meghan	mparkin2@umd.edu	Parault	Reading-phonemic awareness, aspects of motivation, SRL
Richardson, Cameron B.	crichar1@umd.edu	Killen	Social and moral development, environmental justice/ sustainability
Riconscente, Michelle	mriconsc@umd.edu	Alexander	Motivation, assessment, technology
Rogers, Heather	hrogers@umd.edu	Parault	Teacher efficacy, reading education
Russell, Shannon	russells@mail.umd.edu shanruss@hotmail.com	Wentzel	Ed-Psyc
Sanders-Reio, Joanne	joanne.sanders-reio@louisville.edu	Alexander	Technological support for writing
See, Heather	hsee@umd.edu	Klein	Early childhood education, literacy in the home, parent involvement in education
Seufert, Glicer	gseufert@mail.umd.edu	Wang
Sinno, Stefanie	stsinno@umd.edu	Killen	Gender stereotypes, family roles, morality and fairness
Sloan, Meridith Villa	meridithvilla@hotmail.com	Wentzel	Parent-teacher-student relationships, adolescent development, motivation
Sun-Alperin, Kendra	ksun@umd.edu	Wang	Bilingual language development, Spanish-speaking children's reading success in English
Tarkow, Allison K.H.	akhtarkow@yahoo.com	Cabrera	Fathering, parent-child relationships and development within the family system
Vanderwert, Ross	rvanderw@umd.edu	Fox	Early childhood, psychophysiology, stress
Vick, Jessica	jev4@umd.edu	Jones Harden	Student-teacher relationships
Wallace, Teresa	twallace@worldvision.org	Jones Harden	Children affected by war, high risk children in developing countries living in poverty
Westbrook, T'Pring	twestb@umd.edu	Jones Harden	Parenting, children's television
White, Jamell	jwhite19@umd.edu	Klein	social/emotional impact of inclusion programs
White, Lauren	lwhite5@umd.edu	Fox	Development of executive attention, self-regulation, and emotion-regulation
Williams, Alexis Y.	alexiswilliamsinc@hotmail.com	Wentzel	Achievement motivation, teacher-student relationships, social and academic goals and support, classroom context
Willis, Elizabeth J.	ejwillis@yahoo.com	Klein	Schools and Staffing Survey, SASS, survey research/methodology, large scale data analysis using SAS.
Wilkenfeld, Britt	bsw@umd.edu	Torney-Purta	Pro-social development, at-risk youth and developmental assets
Winters, Fielding	fwinters@umd.edu	Azevedo	Science education,self-regulated learning, computer-based learning environments
Yang, Chen	ivyyang@umd.edu	Wang	Bilingual Cognitive Development, Learning Chinese as a second language
Yi, Sunkyoug	sunkyoungyi@hotmail.com	Klein	English language learning and social interaction in ESL classrooms