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My first-authored manuscript entitled "Leveraging insights from gender stereotyping to advance scholarship on gender-diverse individuals' experiences with pain," co-authored with Adele Weaver, Atticus Carroll, Dr. Mollie Ruben, Dr. Vani Mathur, and Dr. Paige Lloyd, was accepted for publication at the Journal of Pain.

My former undergraduate mentee Maggie Williams accepted an offer to join the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill's social psychology PhD program. Congratulations Maggie!

I attended the 97th annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association. I gave an invited talk entitled "Beyond the binary: Gender stereotypes and gendered perceptions."

I attended the 26th annual meeting of the Society for Social and Personality Psychology. I co-chaired a symposium entitled "Gender diversity in social cognition: Inclusion and methodological innovation" with Dr. Flora Oswald. This symposium comprised talks from graduate students Lindsay Goolsby and Ayla Winegar, incoming graduate student Maggie Williams, and early-career professor Flora Oswald discussing diverse methodological approaches to elucidating anti-transgender biases. 

My second-authored manuscript entitled "Trans and nonbinary perspectives on gender diversity in psychological stimuli," led by Ayla Winegar and co-authored by Dr. Flora Oswald, was accepted for publication in Social Cognition.

My second-authored manuscript entitled "Diversifying social cognition through participatory action research methods for stimulus development and validation," led by Dr. Flora Oswald and co-authored by Ayla Winegar, was accepted for publication in a special issue of Social Cognition.

My former undergraduate mentee Claire Shaver successfully published her honors thesis in the Psi Chi Journal. Kevin Summers, Dr. Paige Lloyd, and I are co-authors. Congratulations Claire!

I gave an invited talk entitled "Implications of gender stereotypes for pain equity and empathetic responses to sexual violence" at the University of Colorado Boulder Social Psychology Professional Development series.

I began a year-long adjunct faculty position at the University of Denver to teach PSYC 3152 - Senior Honors Research Seminar for the full year. In this role, I provide support, structure, and feedback for graduating seniors in the psychology distinction program as they complete their research for their theses. In the fall quarter, I additionally taught PSYC 2500 - Adult Psychopathology. In the winter quarter, I additionally taught PSYC 2300 - Introduction to Statistics. In the spring quarter, I additionally taught PSYC 3028 - Social Cognition.

I succesfully defended my dissertation entitled "Assessing how identity lens accessibility and distinctiveness inform application of gender- and race-relevant stereotypes to Black women." Thank you to my mentor Dr. Paige Lloyd and my committee members Drs. Max Weisbuch, Heidi Vuletich, and Michele Hanna!

I received the Harry Gollob Award for best first-authored paper by a graduate student for my paper “Women exaggerate, men downplay: Gendered endorsement of emotional dramatization stereotypes contributes to gender bias in pain expectations.”

I received the Outstanding Teaching Award for my teaching of PSYC 2701 - Topics: The Psychology of Gender.

I attended the 25th annual meeting of the Society for Social and Personality Psychology. I presented a talk entitled "Victim prototypes predict blame and minimization of sexual assault disclosures" in a symposium entitled "Post-#MeToo: Sexual Violence in the Current Sociopolitical Landscape."

I proposed my dissertation entitled "Assessing how identity lens accessibility and distinctiveness inform application of gender- and race-relevant stereotypes to Black women."

I again taught PSYC 2701 - Topics: The Psychology of Gender as the instructor of record.

My CADA (Conceptual Analysis of Dissertation Area) - "An Intersectional Social Psychological Perspective on Gender- and Race-Based Pain Expectation Biases" - was approved.

I taught PSYC 2701 - Topics: The Psychology of Gender as the instructor of record. I designed this course to introduce students to approaches to and understandings of gender from psychological science.

My first authored manuscript, “Women exaggerate, men downplay: Gendered endorsement of emotional dramatization stereotypes contributes to gender bias in pain expectations,” co-authored with Kevin Summers, Dr. Leanne ten Brinke, and Dr. Paige Lloyd, was accepted for publication at the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.

I attended SISPP (the Summer Institute for Social and Personality Psychology) at the Ohio State University. I attended the "Harnessing Social Psychology to Understand and Improve Health" course taught by Drs. Lisa Jaremka and John Updegraff and the "Stop Justifying Your Sample Size: Optimizing Studies to Detect Real [Publishable] Effects" workshop led by Drs. Erin Hennes and Sean Lane.

I received the Student Research Award ($1,041) from the University of Denver College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences to conduct a line of research assessing whether categorization biases are applied to minimal groups and whether the application of these biases hinges on group characteristics (e.g., status).

Two of my undergraduate mentees - Claire Shaver and Maggie Williams - successfully completed their honors theses. Congrats Claire and Maggie! Maggie received the Shaklee-Trowill award for best senior honors thesis.

I received the Outstanding Teaching Award for my teaching of PSYC 2740 - Social Psychology.

I attended the 95th annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association. I gave a paper talk entitled "Women exaggerate, men downplay: Gendered expectations of pain experiences." Two of my undergraduate mentees also gave blitz talks... Claire Shaver gave a blitz talk entitled "Effects of Controllability and Language on Stigma Toward Mental Illness." Maggie Williams gave a blitz talk entitled "Assessing racialized mental representations of crack and powder cocaine users."

I attended the 24th annual meeting of the Society for Social and Personality Psychology. I attended the Social Cognition pre-conference and presented a poster entitled "Race is gendered” in mental representations: Cultural stereotype or ingroup-outgroup bias?" Three of my undergraduate mentees presented posters at the main conference: Casandra Pearson presented a poster entitled "Disparities in crowd-directed force behaviors: Examining the effects of crowd racial composition and crowd size on crowd-directed force behaviors." Claire Shaver presented a poster entitled "Effects of Controllability and Language on Stigma Toward Mental Illness." Maggie Williams presented a poster entitled "Assessing racialized mental representations of crack and powder cocaine users."

I taught PSYC 2740 - Social Psychology as the instructor of record. 

My first-authored manuscript, “Waist-to-hip ratio predicts sexual perception and responses to sexual assault disclosures,” co-author with Drs. Alex McConnell, Steven Almaraz, Jason Deska, Kurt Hugenberg, and Paige Lloyd was accepted for publication at Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

My undergraduate mentee, Abby Langberg, received a Mamie Phipps Clark Diversity Research Grant ($1,230) from Psi Chi for a project we are collaborating on entitled "The influence of language in mental representations of people who have committed a crime."