My most current CV is available to download above. I restrict its length in relevance to my current career stage. 

Below are more details of how I was trained in brief.

Tenure-Track Appointments

2025 - present

Assistant Professor of Psychology, Appalachian State University

Affiliate, Mathematics and Science Education Center (MSEC), Appalachian State University

Education

Brandeis University

Ph.D. in Psychology 2025

Dissertation: Exploring the Malleability of Culturally-Influenced Cognitive Strategies

Advisor: Dr. Angela Gutchess

M.A. in Psychology 2020

Western Kentucky University 

B.S. in Psychological Science 2019

Minor in Neuroscience

B.A. in Cultural Anthropology 2019

Research &  Methods Training 

2019 – 2025 Graduate Research Assistant to Dr. Angela Gutchess (Cognitive, Developmental, and Cultural Psychologist & Neuroscientist)

Brandeis University, Psychology Department & Volen Center for Complex Systems (Neuroscience)

Aging, Culture, Cognition lab

Trained in cognitive, developmental  (adult aging/lifespan), and cultural psychology

PI focus: 

Long-term memory; dissociating cultural versus aging effects in cognition (i.e., is it culture or is it our natural human brain changes as we live?); neural mechanisms of cognitive differences at the intersection of both (e.g., is it compensation? Is it pattern separation?); MRI

My focus as a trainee: 

Acculturation and cultural change (natural flexibility and malleability of cognitive strategies); neural mechanisms of cultural acquisition of cognitive patterns; cognitive processes leading to long-term memory cultural patterns; EEG / ERP

Focus of my trainees in combination w/ PI: 

Interaction between emotion and memory with acculturation and depressive symptoms among Chinese international students; Belarusian acculturation and memory patterns

2023 UC-Davis ERP Boot Camp Completion (EEG and ERP technique for academic research; led by Steven J. Luck)

2021 EITM Certification for the ICPSR Summer Program at the Institute for Quantitative Social Research at the University of Michigan

2020 – 2022 Graduate Research Assistant to Dr. Ricardo Godoy (rotation, Cultural Anthropologist)

Brandeis University, Heller School for Social Policy & Management

Trained in statistical analysis from a cultural anthropology and economics foundation 

PI focus: 

Socioeconomic analysis and psychological perception of the Tsimane (non-industrialized population)

My focus as a trainee:

Gained familiarity with Tsimane dataset, wrote grant proposal focused on the group in intersection with a form of perception  /working memory considering rurality and non-industrialization (unsubmitted), discussed acculturation in connection with non-industrialized societies, trained in data and coding management using Stata and statistical analysis as applied to coding language of my familiarity R, worked as part of team to conduct national (multi-state) study during COVID pandemic examining variation within the United States in cultural norm tightness individually and at the level of state (in comparison) and association w/ health behaviors & attitudes

2018 – 2019 Undergraduate Research Assistant to Dr. Andrew Mienaltowski (Cognitive and Developmental Psychologist & Neuroscientist)

Western Kentucky University, Department of Psychological Sciences

Lifespan Social Cognition Lab

Trained in cognitive and developmental (adult aging/lifespan) psychology

PI focus: 

Visual and emotion perception across adulthood (e.g., influence of available visual information and location of it within visual field on emotion perception)

My focus as a trainee:

Followed up on ethnographic/Anthropological work I completed using cognitive psychology methods, examined influence of facial exposure due to clothing obfuscation in intersection with measures of religious bias on emotional perception from the face; funded by internal grant; gained familiarity with EEG application 

2017 – 2019 Undergraduate Research Assistant to Dr. Ashley Stinnett (Cultural Anthropologist)

Western Kentucky University, Department of Folk Studies & Anthropology

Ethnographic Visual Production Lab 

Trained in cognitive & cultural anthropology

PI focus: 

Visual and linguistic ethnography, cultural analysis of butchering, fermentation, and urban farming in intersection with social identity, focus on Southwestern United States & the Netherlands (e.g., halal and vegan within-culture interaction)

My focus as a trainee:

Conducted an international ethnographic comparison between two Western countries (United States and United kingdom) with a focus on interaction between Muslim and dominant non-Muslim populations; funded by an internal grant; contributed to other research focused on butcheries and fermentation of foods including in the Netherlands and United States; trained in transcription, content analysis, semi-structured interviewing, card-sorting, and free-listing

2015 – 2017 Undergraduate Research Assistant to Dr. Farley Norman (Cognitive and Developmental Psychologist)

Western Kentucky University, Department of Psychological Sciences

Vision & Haptics Lab

Trained in cognitive and developmental (adult aging/lifespan) psychology 

PI focus: 

Visual and haptic sensory perception of natural versus man-made objects and materials; Visual perception from motion (natural and man-made environments); Focus on aging-related comparisons

My focus as a trainee: 

Gained my first introduction to scientific research; supported research on visual and haptic perception in combination; contributed to aging-related research