I have mentored many incredible students at Williams College, University of Toronto, and UNCG. From theses to independent research projects, each student holds a special place in my heart! Here are some milestones they've accomplished and lab updates!

Here is more information about all the amazing students I've had and their research projects:

Williams College

·      Coco FitzMaurice (Senior Thesis, 2026 – Current): “It sounds better when he says it”: The role of speaker gender in humor perception

·      Nupur Malhotra (Research Assistant, 2026 – Current)

·      Keredin Samuel (Research Assistant, 2026 – Current) 

University of Toronto

·  Ujin Munkh-Itgelt (Independent Research Project, 2026 – Current): The gender boundary: Different racial groups and the perception of facial sexual dimorphism

·   Katherine Liu (Independent Research Project, 2025 – Current): A brunswik lens analysis of implicit gender inference in text-to-image models.

·  Udaya Reddy (Independent Research Project, 2025 – Current): The hierarchy of hireability: How race and gender shape evaluations across occupational prestige

·  Maria Romero Ochoa (Senior Thesis, 2025 – 2026): Adverse childhood experiences: Differences in facial perception of threat-related, perceptually ambiguous social memberships

·      Rojan Bassiri (Individual Research Project, 2024 – 2026): What do we do with grief at work? Gender stereotypes influence perceptions of the “right” way to grieve in the workplace

·  Kimberly Lee (ROP Student, 2024 – 2026): No laughing matter: People expect men to be funnier than women

·  Meijin Patil (ROP Student, 2024 – 2026): While women wept, men played video games: Differing gendered reactions to the 2024 U.S. presidential election and expectations for future women in politics

·  Ivy Lei (Research Assistant, 2025 – 2026)

·  Priscilla Blankson (Research Assistant, 2025 – 2026)

·  Alice Du (Research Assistant, 2025 – 2026)

·  Sophie Williams (Research Assistant, 2024 – 2026)

University of North Carolina at Greensboro

·  Corban Mills (Undergraduate Honors Thesis, 2023 – 2024): Measuring differences in perceptions of racism in faces using reverse correlation techniques

·  Shima Mohamed (Undergraduate Honors Thesis, 2021 – 2022): Smile, you’re being judged: Examining the effect of gendered trait attributes on women’s smile authenticity