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I received my PhD in social psychology and intradisciplinary health from the New Brunswick campus of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in May 2016.  I completed my postdoctoral fellowship at the UConn Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity and I am currently an Associate Professor in Psych Science at Kent State University.  

My program of research is situated at the intersections of health and social psychology with a primary focus on weight stigma (social devaluation due to body weight). Within this topic, I examine the multifaceted ways in which stigma processes related to social identities set off a cascade of physiological stress responses and attempts to cope. This work centers on intersecting or overlapping social identities (e.g., weight, race, gender, sexuality), physical and psychological stress, as well as stigma-specific coping strategies as they contribute to health. My goal is to elucidate how consequences of weight stigma directly influence physiological, cognitive, and behavioral processes which culminate in chronic disease. I am strongly committed to open science and nearly all of the work discussed was pre-registered. 

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