• Please note that all core and associated faculty members may be faculty research mentors in our program unless noted otherwise below.
• Applicants to our program should indicate three faculty members with whom they might want to work and should note 3 faculty members with whom they would work on their applications to the program. 
• Prospective applicants are encouraged to reach out to specific faculty members that they might have an interest in working with, although doing so is not a formal requirement for admissions. Additionally, applicants should be aware that some faculty do not respond to individual requests for information about their lab due to equity issues and/or personal preference and time.
  • If you do not hear back from faculty, do NOT assume that this is reflective of a lack of interest in you as a potential applicant.
• Faculty members who are interested in accepting applications for Ph.D. students in their labs for the 2025-2026 academic year are noted below. 

   

Program Faculty

	Jim A. Haugh, Ph.D., Director of Clinical Training (DCT) Etiology & treatment of depression and co-morbid anxiety; mobile technology & depression; treatment of depression in primary care and oncology; use of mobile technology in diverse populations. Accepting applications for the 2025-26 academic year.  CV The R.O.A.D. Lab
	D.J. Angelone, Ph.D. Sexual violence and sexual risk, including the development and utilization of laboratory analogs and alcohol administration protocols.  Accepting applications for the 2025-26 academic year.  CV ASSeRT Lab
	Danielle Arigo, Ph.D. Social influences on health and health behavior; digital health (smartphone apps, social media); women's health; physical activity; eating behavior; body image CV CHASE Lab
	Steven M. Brunwasser, Ph.D.  Prevention science; perinatal mental health; depression in adolescence and emerging adulthood; developmental origins of health and disease; pediatric asthma; integrative mental health care Accepting applications for the 2025-26 academic year.  CV Prevention Science Lab
	Tom Dinzeo, Ph.D.  Schizophrenia-spectrum disorders and individual differences in personality, emotion response, cognition, and health/lifestyle behaviors. Accepting applications for the 2025-26 academic year. CV RUSSL Lab
	Katherine Oberle Gotham, Ph.D. Autism, depression in ASD, repetitive thinking, emotion processing, social motivation, neurodivergent adults Accepting applications for the 2025-26 academic year.  CV SEAHLab
	Jeffrey Greeson, Ph.D. Mindfulness, Stress & Health; an interdisciplinary research program that integrates psychology with health, medicine, and basic science. CV Mindfulness, Stress & Health Lab
	Meredith C. Jones, Ph.D., Associate DCT Dating violence and HIV prevention; adolescent/young adult romantic relationships and attachment. Accepting applications for the 2025-26 academic year.  CV ASSeRT Lab
	Jonathan M. Lassiter, Ph.D. Health inequities among racial and sexual minorities; religion/spirituality-health mechanisms; intersectionality; Black/Afrocentric psychology Accepting applications for the 2025-26 academic year.  CV SPIRiT Lab
	Bethany Raiff, Ph.D. Applied behavior analysis; technology-based interventions; smoking cessation; contingency management. Accepting applications for the 2025-26 academic year.  CV HABIT Lab
	Christina Simmons, Ph.D. Applied behavior analysis; severe behavior; autism spectrum disorder; behavioral assessment and treatment; social validity; caregiver training CV SAFE Behavior Lab

Associated Faculty

• Dustin Fife, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Psychology, Rowan University Main Campus
  • Research focuses on how to apply missing data strategies to adjust statistical estimates obtained with convenience samples. (Statistics)
  • Accepting applications for the 2025-26 academic year. 
  • CV
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• Roberta Dihoff, Ph.D., Professor, Psychology, Rowan University Main Campus
  • Clinical child development and assessment. 
    Research focuses on the factors affecting and techniques to improve performance in children, especially those with developmental challenges. 
  • Not currently accepting students.
  • CV
• Michelle Ennis Soreth, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Psychology, Rowan University Main Campus
  • Experimental analysis of behavior; applied behavior analysis, treatment of developmental and behavior disorders, parent training, verbal behavior.
  • Not currently accepting students.
  • CV
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• Tenelle Porter, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Psychology, Rowan University Main Campus
  
  • Focused is on the psychological processes that make growth possible for imperfect humans navigating imperfect systems and studies how one reponds to their own and others' fallibility. Work combines behavioral studies of children, adolescents, and adults and large field experiments. Has expertise in evaluation science. 
  • Not currently accepting students
  • CV
• Gerald Hough, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Biological & Biomedical Sciences, Psychology & Research, Rowan University Main Campus
  • Focused on the effects of aging on behavior and hippocampal anatomy, and language dialect analysis in songbirds. Recent Academic Projects include: Homing pigeons fail to use spatial memory as they age (project with four undergraduate students resulting in two national conference presentations) Discovery of geographic variation in song in seaside sparrows (project with three undergraduates resulting in two national conference presentations)
  • Not currently accepting students.
  • CV
• Joanna Petrides, Psy.D., Assistant Professor/Resident Research Director, Rowan SOM
  
  • Focused on understanding of psychiatric disorders, how they present in a medical setting, and how to treat such disorders, as well as, ways in which to improve holistic care of patients through improved interpersonal interactions. 
  • Not currently accepting students.
  • CV
• Cori E. McMahon, Psy.D., Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University
  
  • Clinical focus is in the management of chronic disease (cancer, HIV) in general and in women's issues, sexuality and sexual dysfunction, and in end-of-life specifically. 
  • Not currently accepting students.
  • CV
• David J. Libon, Ph.D., New Jersey Institute for Successful Aging, Geriatric Medicine, Rowan SOM
  
  • Focus is on developing new measures to operationally- define known areas of neurocognitive disability that are associated with Alzheimer’s disease/ vascular dementia spectrum dementia and mild cognitive impairment.
  • Not currently accepting students..
  • CV
• Ademola Fawole, Psy.D., Adjunt Professor, Rowan University Main Campus
  • Professor for Assessment I; Psychometrics and Cognitive Testing and Assessment II: Individual Differences and Personality. 
  • Not currently accepting students
  • CV