Bardi has taught at Sewanee since 2008. A licensed clinical psychologist, his teaching interests include abnormal behavior and the psychology of diversity. His research focuses on measurement development, particularly with regard to traits related to functioning, and the validation of such traits in non-dominant U.S. culture groups.
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Barenbaum has taught at Sewanee since 1989. Her teaching interests include personality (both basic principles and case study methods) and the history of psychology and popular culture. Her research interests include the history of personality psychology and psychobiography.
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Bateman has taught at Sewanee since 2003. Her teaching interests include all levels of development; community psychology; social psychology. Her research interests include the psychological sense of community; innovative learning environments; childhood obesity.
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Ted S. Benice received his Ph.D. in Behavioral Neuroscience from Oregon Health & Science University where he studied the effects of androgens on learning and memory in mice. Prior to his research training, Dr. Benice received bachelor’s degrees in psychology and chemistry from Portland State University and Lewis & Clark College.
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Craft has taught at Sewanee since 1998. His teaching interests are in cognitive psychology, models of consciousness including neural bases, and mathematics (Calculus; Finite Mathematics). His research interests include how the visual system processes our 3-dimensional environment, and cognitive and neurophysiological bases for depression.
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Hamby has taught at Sewanee since 2008. A clinical psychologist by training, her teaching interests are in the psychology of gender and coaching students in research. She studies family violence and youth victimization, with a particular focus on methodological and measurement issues and cross-cultural issues in measuring and intervening for violence.
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Keith-Lucas taught at Sewanee 1973-2011. His teaching interests are in animal behavior and neuropsychology. His research interests are in primatology, particularly the behavior of lemurs in novel habitats and the adjustment of captive ring tailed lemurs to release on an undeveloped barrier island on the Georgia seacoast.
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Peyser has taught at Sewanee since 1968. His teaching interests are in Industrial / Organizational psychology; comparative sexual behavior; behavior modification interventions (primary literature seminar). His reading interests include behavior modification; the reaction of individuals and groups when faced with clear evidence that their pseudopsychological beliefs are tenuous (e.g., millennial of 1/1/1000 and Y2K; the winter solstice on 12/21/2012).
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A behavioral neuroscientist by training, her teaching interests are in neuroscience, neuroscience research methods, drugs and behavior, and sensation and perception. Her research focuses on the long-term effects of methamphetamine exposure during brain development on brain function and behavior and cognition.
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Yu has taught at Sewanee since 1996. Her teaching interests include cognitive illusions; decision-making; both basic and advanced laboratory courses in cognitive psychology. Her research interests include unconscious components of and influences on cognitive processes; decision-making, particularly as it relates to academic honesty and dishonesty.
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