Graduate studies leading to the Ph.D. degree in psychology are designed to offer the student training in a major research area within psychology, expertise in quantitative and design methodology, and varied research opportunities. Students study either Psychological Science or School Psychology. The School Psychology program is accredited by the American Psychological Association. You may write to faculty members at the Department of Psychology, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118. Faculty members can be reached by email or telephone at (504) 865-5331.
Note: The department does not offer graduate training in counseling or adult clinical psychology.
The School Psychology Program is fully accredited by the American Psychological Association, and offers doctoral research training in basic and applied aspects of developmental science. Faculty research interests include developmental psychopathology, resilience and stress reactivity, executive functions such as emotion regulation and attention, coping, motivational belief systems and the typical developmental patterns among adolescents of color, spatial reasoning, and the development of tool use. State of the art research laboratories include the Infant and Toddler Development Project at Tulane’s University Square facility. Additional facilities on campus are made possible through the Newcomb Children's Center and the University’s Upward Bound Program. Cooperation with community institutions and schools is excellent. Goals of graduate training are to develop students' research skills and to prepare them for employment in academic research, teaching, and human service settings. After securing competitive predoctoral internships, program graduates are employed in a variety of excellent positions (See Internships and Current Positions of Recent Graduates).
Requirements for the School Psychology Track are:
For additional detail please see the School Psychology section of the website.
Psychological Science provides training in basic research areas of psychology. Current areas of research interest include developmental psychology, behavioral neuroscience, and social psychology. Throughout the graduate career, students conduct research with any department faculty member, and often elect to conduct research with several faculty to support interdisciplinary interests. The majority of our program graduates secure academic positions. (See post-doctoral and current positions of recent graduates).
Requirements for the Psychological Science Track are:
Oscar A. Barbarin, Professor
Ph.D., 1975, Rutgers University
Special Interests: Educational interventions and assessment; community and family roles in health threat and health risk behavior
Terry E. Christenson, Associate Professor
Ph.D., 1974, University of California, Berkeley
Special Interests: Comparative psychology, animal behavior in the field
Paul Colombo, Associate Professor
Ph.D., 1994, University of California, Berkeley
Special Interests: Physiological psychology, neuronal mechanisms of memory and aging
David M. Corey, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., 1999, Tulane University
Special Interests: Quantitative methods, functional magnetic resonance imaging of language areas
Michael Cunningham, Associate Professor
Ph.D., 1994, Emory University
Special Interests: Adolescent development in diverse contexts
Jill M. Daniel, Associate Professor
Ph.D. 2000, Tulane University
Special Interests: Hormones and behavior
Gary P. Dohanich, Professor
Co-Director of Neuroscience Major
Associate Chair, Psychology
Ph.D., 1981, Michigan State University
Special Interests: Steroid action, neurotransmitters, learning and memory
Edward J. Golob, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., 1999, Dartmouth College
Special Interests: Cognitive neuroscience, memory, aging
Jeffrey J. Lockman, Professor
Director of Graduate Training
Ph.D., 1980, University of Minnesota
Special Interests: Infancy, development of spatial representation
Lisa Molix, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. 2007, University of Missouri at Columbia
Special Interests:
intergroup relations, mental health and well-being among marginalized populations
Bonnie Nastasi, Associate Professor
Ph.D. 1986, Kent State University
Special Interests: culturally appropriate health promotion and health risk prevention programming for child, adolescent and adult populations
Laurie O’Brien, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., 2002, University of Kansas
Special Interests: Stigma, stereotype-threat, legitimizing myths
Stacy Overstreet, Associate Professor
Director of Ph.D. Admissions
Director, School Psychology Training Program
Ph.D., 1995, Tulane University
Special Interests: Identifying protective factors that lead to resilience in children exposed to community violence
Janet B. Ruscher, Professor and Chair
Ph.D., 1991, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Special Interests: Social psychology, impression formation, stereotyping in communication
Lisa Szechter, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., 2003 The Pennsylvania State University
Special Interests: Early childhood education, comprehension of spatial-graphic representation among children
R. Enrique Varela, Associate Professor
Ph.D., 2002, University of Kansas
Special Interests: Cross-cultural differences in anxiety expression
C. Chrisman Wilson, Associate Professor
Ph.D., 1976, University of South Carolina
Special Interests: Applied behavior analysis, psychopathology
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