Postdocs and Graduate Student Researchers
Doctoral & Postdoctoral Alumni
Denise Baker
Missouri University of Science & Technology
Samantha Bean
Perkins Coie
Logan Bussey
Trial Behavior Consulting
Emily Denne
Griffith University
Carly Giffin
Federal Judicial Center
Bethany Growns
University of Canterbury
David Lovis-McMahon
Facebook
Kristen McCowan
Center for Integrity in Forensic Sciences
Breanna Rosales
JuryScope
Hannah Phalen
University of Wyoming
Colleen Sullivan
University of Southern California
Sara Thomas
Meta
Ashley Votruba
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Keelah Williams
Hamilton College
Doctoral Students
Allison Cross
Ph.D. Program in Law and Psychology
Research Interests: Juvenile's perceptions of the law and legal actors, legal socialization.
Sarai Garcia
Ph.D. Program in Law and Psychology
Research Interests: Explore how environmental, systemic, and psychological factors shape juveniles' exposure and responses to adversity. Inform community-inspired policy and interventions that mitigate antisocial behaviors and justice involvement.
Amber Heemskerk
Ph.D. Program in Law and Psychology
Research Interests: eyewitness memory, interrogation procedures, perception of evidence among jurors
Royce Hill
Ph.D. Program in Law and Psychology
Research Interests: Applying psychological science in the legal context to develop effective policies and interventions for at-risk adolescents and justice-involved populations
Phoebe Kane
Ph.D. Program in Law and Psychology
Research Interests: courtroom processes, jury and judicial decision-making, and the influence of biases in the courtroom.
Disha Kotecha
Ph.D. Program in Law and Psychology
Research Interests: Develop and evaluate interventions to reduce conflict and support family well-being during parental divorce/separations. Evaluate and design tailored interventions to reduce recidivism and improve outcomes for justice-involved youth.
Kimia Lavasani
Ph.D. Program in Law and Psychology
Research Interests: Attorney questioning, child interviewing, jury decision-making, abuse and exploitation cases involving youth.
Taylor Lebensfeld
Ph.D. Program in Law and Psychology
Research Interests: Memory and the law, eyewitness memory, eyewitness identification.
Trevor Morris
Ph.D. Program in Law and Psychology
Research Interests: treatment and preventative programs for juveniles and mental health of the youth who are impacted by the justice system.
Sydney Parker
Ph.D. Program in Law and Psychology
Research Interests: development and evaluation of interventions/programming for children interacting with the legal system
Hannah Rath
Ph.D. Program in Law and Psychology
Research Interests: miscarriages of justice, social biases, police interrogation
Justin Richardson
Ph.D. Program in Law and Psychology
Research Interests: how to motivate youth and their families to engage in different interventions and understand the relationships between delinquency and youths' environment
Riley Samarzja
Ph.D. Program in Law and Psychology
Research Interests: Perceptions in the legal system, plea decision making, waivers of constitutional rights.
Lea Sobrilsky
Ph.D. Program in Law and Psychology
Research Interests: My current study interests are focused on implicature used in CSA trials.
Master's Students
Teagan Lunn
MS Program in Psychology
Research Interests: I am interested in risk factors for justice system involvement as well as the experiences of individuals with mental illness in the justice system.
Chrystal Vazquez Garcia
MS Program in Psychology
Research Interests: The biopsychological factors that shape behavior, particularly how cognitive and emotional processes influence behavior and contribute to the development of psychopathology.