Honors & Awards

Associate Professor, Cleveland State University. Aug 2020 – present.

• 2023. Fellow of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology (SESP).

• 2023. CSU Faculty Merit Recognition Awards: Research & Service to the profession.

• 2021. APS Rising Star Award. Association for Psychological Science.

• 2021. Outstanding Research Award. College of Sciences & Health Professions.

Assistant Professor, Cleveland State University. Aug 2014 – Aug 2020.

• 2020. Outstanding Research Award. Psychology Department.

• 2020. CSU Faculty Merit Recognition Award: Teaching & Service to the profession.

• 2019. Golden Apple Award. Young Alumni Council & Alumni Association.

• 2018. Outstanding Teaching Award. Psychology Department.

• 2017. CSU Faculty Merit Recognition Award: Teaching.

Ph.D., Social Psychology, University of Missouri-Columbia. Degree conferred May 2014.

• Dissertation: Experimentally exploring how the awareness of existential freedom influences support for autocratic leadership styles among individuals high and low in neuroticism.

• 2014. Graduate Student Excellence Award. Department of Psychological Sciences.

• 2013. Raymond White Dissertation Fellowship.

• 2012 EASP Research Institute, Limerick, Ireland.

• 2010-2012. NSF Graduate Research Fellow.

M.A., Social Psychology, University of Missouri-Columbia. Degree conferred May 2011.

• Thesis: Exploring the terror management function of basic need-satisfaction.

• 2011. Outstanding Thesis Award. Department of Psychological Sciences.

B.A., Psychology. University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. Degree conferred May 2008.

• 2008. College of LAS Outstanding Undergraduate.

• 2007-present. Psi-Chi Honor Society.

• 2006-2008. Dean’s List.