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James H. Shaffer, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology and Chairperson
Ph.D., 1970, West Virginia University
Teaching interests: research methods, learning, adulthood and aging, and history of psychology.

Beth Parkinson, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
Ph.D., 1986, Pennsylvania State University
Teaching interests: Counseling methods, child and adolescent development, social psychology, and personality theory.

Jennifer S. Griffin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology
Ph.D., 1995, Kent State University
Teaching interests: Human cognition, neuropsychology, sensation and perception, and peace and conflict studies.
Research interests: mental processes involved in language, especially translation and interpretation.

Martin Bright, Ed.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Ed.D., 2005, University of Sarasota