Former Students of Mine Who are now Professors


It is always great fun for a professor when his former students also become professors, because you can then continue a professional relationship with them as colleagues.  I have been very lucky in this regard.  Below you can find a list of former psychology students from my years at Knox who are now working as college professors (or at related jobs in academia), along with the place that they got their highest degrees.

Auran J. Fox Professor & Dean of the University of Connecticut Business School, Storrs, CT, P. Christopher Earley, '80 (PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign). 

Professor of Psychology, Lock Haven University, Lock Haven, PA, Susan Boland, '81 (PhD, Washington University, St Louis) 

Professor of Spanish, Boston College, Needham, MA, Sheila E. McIntosh, '82 (Degrees Unknown) 

Associate Professor of Psychology & Department Chair, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, Connie Pilkington, '82 (PhD, University of Georgia) 

Associate Professor of Psychology, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL, Paul B. Harris, '84 (PhD, University of Utah)

Program Director, Early Childhood Development Center, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, Thayer Williams Kramer, '84 (PhD, University of Maine)

Director of Career Development, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD, Traci Martin, '85 (MA, University of Maryland)

Professor of Psychology & Department Chair, Blackburn College, Carlinville, IL, Victor "Jake" MIller, '85 (PhD, Texas Tech)

Director of Research at the Law, Health Policy, and Disability Center, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, Helen Gruetzmacher Schartz, '85

Staff Psychologist, New York Hospital, & Assistant Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry, Cornell Medical College/Westchester Division, White Plains, NY, Christine Foertsch, '86 (PhD, University of Iowa)

Associate Professor of Psychology, Duke University, Durham, NC, Amy Work Needham, '87 (PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

Post-Doctoral fellow, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, Christine Popowits Look, '87 (PhD, Ball State University)

Professor, Columbus State Community College, Columbus, OH, Karsten Look, '88 (PhD, Ball State University)

Associate Professor of Psychology & Chair of Social Sciences, Southwest Minnesota State University, Marshall, MN, J. Corey Butler, '89 (PhD, University of Maine)

Associate Professor of Spanish, Knox College, Jessie Dixon, '89 (PhD, University of Chicago)

Psychology Professor, Carl Sandburg College, Galesburg, IL, Jill Johnson, '90 (MA, Bradley University)

Associate Professor of Biology, DePaul University, Chicago, Dorothy Kozlowski, '90 (PhD, University of Texas at Austin)

Faculty Member, Psychology & Women's Studies, Knox College, Kelly Shaw, '91 (PhD Candidate, Purdue University)

Director of Enrollment Management, Illinois Central College, East Peoria, IL, Guy Goodman, '92 (MA, University of Iowa)

Associate Professor of Marketin, Owen Graduate School of Management,  Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, Steve Posavac, '92 (PhD, University of Utah)

Staff Psychologist & Senior Instructor of Psychiatry, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, Heidi Fradkin Posavac, '92 (PhD, University of Utah)

Instructor, Department of Kinesiology, Cornell College, Mt. Vernon, Iowa, Jeff Meeker, '93 (MA, University of Iowa)

Diabetes Researcher, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO, Alexis Bouffard, '94 (MA, University of Northern Colorado)

Assistant Professor of Psychology, Williams College, Williamstown, MA, Noah Sandstrom, '94 (PhD, Duke University)

Psychology Professor, McHenry County College, Crystal Lake, IL, Christine Glover Grela, '96 (PhD, University of Chicago)

Assistant Professor of Marketing, University of Chicago, Ginger Pennington, '97 (PhD, Northwestern University)

Assistant Professor of Psychology, Wabash College, Crawfordsville, IN, Neil Schmitzer-Torbert, '00 (PhD, University of Minnesota)

Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology (beginning Fall, 2007), Knox College,  Kei Kawashima, '01 (Ph.D., Loyola University of Chicago)

Assistant Professor of Psychology, DePauw University,  Greencastle, Indiana, Christina Wagner, '01 (PhD, IUPUI).

Postdoctoral Researcher, College of William and Mary, Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Southern California, Noah Schwartz, '98

The following people are still in graduate school, but all are considering careers in academia:

PhD Student, Industrial/Organizational Psychology, DePaul University, Chicago, Deborah Winstead Hanna, '94

PhD Student, Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Yadika Sharma, '97

PhD Student, Cognitive Psychology, Indiana University, Nadia Duenas, '98

PhD Student, Counseling Psychology, University of Oklahoma, Rebecca Hurst, '99

Ph.D. Student, Music Composition, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, Matt Pace, '99

PhD Student, Social/Personality Psychology, City University of New York (CUNY), Brooke Wells, '00

PhD Student, Neuroscience, Binghamton University, Shelly Engelman, '01

PhD Student, Sociology, Northern Illinois University, Janelle Scheer, '01

PhD Student, Neuroscience, City University of New York, Anna Obraztsova, '01

Ph.D. Student, Developmental Psychology, Cornell University, Kim Ferguson, '02

Ph.D. Student, Clinical Psychology, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, Jared Keeley, '02

PhD Student, Physiology & Pharmacology, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem NC,  Mark Zielstorff, '02

PhD Student, Behavioral Pharmacology, IUPUI, Indianapolis, Megan Bertholomey, '03

PhD Student, Experimental Psychology, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI, Dan Boyll, '03

PhD Student, Clinical Psychology, Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, CA, Erika Carlson Knuth, '03

PhD Student, Animal Behavior, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, Joyce Christensen, '03

PhD Student, Behavioral Neuroscience, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY, Stacie Miller, '03

Doctoral student in Pharmacy, Virginia Commonwealth University, Staunton, VA, Hillary Myers Plumb, '03

PhD Student, Evolutionary Psychology, University of Texas, Austin, TX, Carin Perilloux, '03

PhD Student, Counseling Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, Riddhi Sandil, '03

PsyD Student, Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Mike Stowers, '03

Ph.D. Student, Clinical Psychology, Kent State University, Kent, OH, Emily Bell, '04 

Master's Student, Experimental Psychology, Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL, Ryan Colclasure, '04

PhD Student, Social/Personality Psychology, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, Yuna Engle, '04

Ph.D. student, Personality and Social Development, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, Jamie Koenig, '04

PhD Student, Cognitive Psychology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, Bogdan Kostic, '04

Ph.D. Student, Personality-Social Psychology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, Zach Rothschild, '05

Ph.D. Student, Clincial & Community Psychology, University of Florida, Nate Ewigmann, '06

Masters Student, Experimental Psychology, Cal State - Long Beach, Neil Young, '06

Ph.D. Student, Neuroscience,  University of Washington, Seattle, WA, Andy Prendergast, '07

Ph.D. Student, School Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, Abbie Kramer, '08

Graduate  Student, Personality & Social Psychology, York University, Mike Prentice, '08