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Full-time faculty
Name, title, position Access information Courses Research
Susan G. Brown, Ph.D.
Professor
Department Chair
 Office: UCB 268
Phone: (808) 974-7374
E-mail: susanb@hawaii.edu		 Undergraduate: Statistics.  History of Psychology.  Animal Psychology.  Learning and Motivation.  Women and Health Animal behavior. Women's health and its relationship to menstrual cycle and intercourse
Dawna K. Coutant, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
 Office: UCB 265
Phone: (808) 933-0720
E-mail: coutant@hawaii.edu		 Undergraduate: Social Psychology.  Cross-Cultural Psychology.  Research Methods. Culture, conflict, and health.
Paul W. Dixon, Ph.D.
Professor		 Office: UCB 259
Phone: (808) 974-7456
E-mail: dixon@hawaii.edu.
Website: www.uhh.hawaii.edu/~dixon/		 Undergraduate: Sensation & Perception.  Psycholinguistics.  Survey of  Psychology. Experimental Psychology.  History of Psychology. Psycholinguistics, analytic models of cognition.
B. Christopher Frueh, Ph.D.
Professor
Social Sciences Division Chair

 Office: UCB 273
Phone:
E-mail: frueh@hawaii.edu		 Graduate: Professional Identity, Ethics and Legal Issues.  Internship.

Mental health services, cognitive behavioral therapy, posttraumatic stress disorder, telemedicine, mental health economics and public policy, racial disparities
Steve Herman, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
 Office: UCB 269
Phone: (808) 933 3284
E-mail: hermans@hawaii.edu		 Graduate: Psychological Assessment.  Group Counseling.   Counseling Practicum.
Undergraduate: Testing and Measurement. 		Internet Counseling,
Forensic Psychology,
Behavioral Medicine
Charmaine K. Higa-McMillan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor		 Office: UCB 271
Phone: (808) 933-3166
E-mail: teni@hawaii.edu		 Graduate: Psychological Assessment.  Human Development. Internalizing Developmental Psychopathology, Child and Adolescent Assessment, Evidence-Based Treatments for Youth, Dissemination and Implementation of Evidence-Based Treatments, Youth Mental Health Services
Bryan S. K. Kim, Ph.D.
Professor
Director of Master's Program in Counseling Psychology

 Office: UCB 273
Phone: (808) 974-7439
E-mail: bryankim@hawaii.edu
Website: www2.hawaii.edu/~bryankim/
 Graduate: Social and Cultural  Foundations. Counseling Theory and Skills.  Research Methods.   Counseling Practicum.
Undergraduate: Counseling Psychology. Asian American Psychology. Career Development
 Multicultural counseling
psychology, instrument development, Asian American psychology, acculturation and enculturation
Adam A. Pack, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor		 Office: UCB 260
Phone: 933-0827
E-mail: pack@hawaii.edu
Website: www.dolphin-institute.org
 Undergraduate: Statistics. Learning and Motivation. Marine Mammal Behavior and Biology.
 Dolphin sensory perception, cognition, and communication.
Behavior, communication, and biology of humpback whales and other marine mammals. 
Cheryl M. Ramos, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Coordinator of Undergraduate Studies and Distance Learning
 Office: UCB 272
Phone: (808) 974-7438
E-mail: cmaeramos@aol.com		 Undergraduate: Community Psychology. Practicum.  Evaluation Research.  I/O Psychology. Well-being of cancer survivors
Vladimir B. Skorikov, Ph.D.
Professor

 Office: UCB 270
Phone: (808) 974-7373
E-mail: skorikov@hawaii.edu.
Website: www2.hawaii.edu/~skorikov/		 Graduate: Human Development.
Undergraduate:  Statistics.  Developmental Psychology.  Adolescence.  Career Development.		 Career development, identity, adjustment and mental health in adolescence and young adulthood.
Becky J. Thurston, M.A.
 Instructor		 Office: UCB 264
Phone: (808) 974-7598
E-mail: bthursto@hawaii.edu		 Undergraduate: Survey of Psychology.  Research Methods.  Developmental  Psychology.
Brian R. Uldall, Ph.D.
Temporary Assistant Professor		 Office: UCB 261
Phone: (808) 974-7402
E-mail: uldall@hawaii.edu
Website: www.drbrianuldall.org		 Undergraduate: Social Psychology, Personality. Research Methods. Statistics. Social identity, group perception & intergroup relations. Social psychology of drug abuse.
Stephen Worchel, Ph.D.
Professor

 Office: UCB 266
Phone: (808) 933-3149
E-mail: worchel@hawaii.edu		 Undergraduate: Social Psychology.  Cross-Cultural Psychology. 
Human conflict, social identity, minority group relationships and influence.
Errol Yudko, Ph.D.
Associate Professor		 Office: UCB 267
Phone: (808) 933-3918
E-mail: errol@hawaii.edu.
Website: www2.hawaii.edu/~errol/		 Graduate: Statistics.
Undergraduate: Statistics.   Research Methods.  Physiological Psychology.  Biopsychology. Testing and Measurement.		 Drug abuse
Affiliate Faculty
Name, Title, Position Access Information Courses Research
Dyanne Affonso, Ph.D.
Affiliate Professor		 Office:
Phone: (808) 933-3330
E-mail: daffonso@hawaii.edu
 Currently none
 Community violence and mental health, perinatal depression.
Dan Landis, Ph.D.
Affiliate Professor		 Office:
Phone:
E-mail: danl@hawaii.edu
Website: interculturalacademy.org/briefbio.htm
 Currently none
 Inter-cultural relations, cross-cultural training
Staff
Name, Title, Position Access Information Duties
Vanessa Eblacas
Secretary		 Office: UCB 243
Phone: (808) 933-3315
E-mail: eblacas@hawaii.edu		 Technical support, information and student affairs
Part-Time Faculty
Name, Title, Position Access Information Courses
Gay Barfield, Ph.D.
Lecturer		 Office:
Phone:
E-mail: barfield@hawaii.edu 		 Graduate: Person-Centered  Psychotherapy.
Lorri Bolton, Psy.D.
Lecturer		 Office:
Phone:
E-mail: lbolton@hawaii.edu		 Undergraduate: Clinical Psychology. Child Behavior Therapy.
Teni M.  Garrett-Johnson, Ph.D.
Lecturer
 Office:
Phone:
E-mail: teni@hawaii.edu
 Undergraduate:  Survey of Psychology.

Melisa Secola-Nieft, Ph.D.
Lecturer		 Office:
Phone:
E-mail: secola@hawaii.edu		 Undergraduate: Counseling Psychology. 

Bertram K. Spain, Ph.D.
Lecturer		 Office:
Phone:
E-mail: spain@hawaii.edu		 Undergraduate: Survey of Psychology.


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