Welcome to my academic website! Here you can learn a bit about my research and teaching. I work with students at the undergraduate and graduate levels to study novel ways of measuring human experiences across the life course, an effort we call the Measurement Across Development (MAD) Lab.
My collaborative research focuses on the application of latent variable models to the measurement of psychopathology and health risk behaviors in adolescence and early adulthood. As a quantitative psychologist, I generally do statistical analyses on pre-existing datasets in order to help untangle the complex set of factors which drive people toward and away from healthy behaviors across development.
PhD in Quantitative Psychology, 2017
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
MA in Quantitative Psychology, 2014
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
BA in Psychology, 2009
Wellesley College
How does an adolescent’s position among their peers affect their risk of substance use? Our collaborative team including graduate and undergraduate students is conducting a systematic review to synthesize the current evidence about this question.
When we ask subjects about past their behavior, what period of time should we ask them to recall? If we ask an adolescent about their depressive symptoms in the past week, we will obviously get different information than if we asked about the past year.