Educational Psychology Faculty

Name &Title

Credentials

Focus

At NAU

Sarah Bickel, Ph.D., Associate Provost for Student Affairs

(University of Northern Colorado 1980)

College-student affairs administration

NAU 1991  

Kathy Bohan, Ed.D., Assistant Professor

(B.S., Illinois State University; M.A., Arizona State University;  Ph.D., Northern Arizona University 1996)

Behavioral assessment, inclusion strategies, consultation and collaboration and school-wide positive behavioral supports

NAU 2001  

Lakota Lynn Brown, Ph.D., Associate Professor

(B.S., Northern Arizona University; M.C., Ph.D., Arizona State University 1990)

Counseling psychology, group counseling, school counseling

NAU 1997

Richard W. Carroll, Ph.D., Associate Professor,

Director of Institute for Human Development

(B.S., University of San Francisco; M.S., Ph.D., University of Arizona 1975)

Development, consultation

NAU 1980  

Henry T. Clark III, Ph.D., Professor

(B.A., Princeton University; M.A.T., Seton Hall University; M.A., M.Phil, Ph.D., Teachers College of Columbia University 1982)

Educational psychology, human learning and cognition, cognitive strategies and cognitive styles

NAU 1989

Rebecca P. Cole, Ph.D., Associate Professor

(B.S., B.A., New Mexico State University; M.S., Ph.D., Texas A&M University 1996)

Epistemological beliefs, underprepared students, learning strategies

NAU 1996  

Gypsy M. Denzine, Ph.D., Associate Professor

(B.S., Saint Cloud State University; M.A., University of Texas-El Paso; Ph.D., University of Northern Colorado 1996)

Student development theory, measurement topics in student affairs, problem solving, individual differences in cognition

NAU 1996

Thomas J. DeStefano, Ed.D., Associate Professor

(B.A., Northeastern Illinois; Ed.S., M.A., Ed.D., University of Northern Colorado 1981)

Student development assessment, counseling efficacy research

NAU 1991  

Joyce A. DeVoss, Ph.D., Assistant Professor

(B.S., University of Illinois; M.A., Chapman University; Ph.D., University of Arizona 1987)

Counseling psychology, family and parent interventions, school counseling

NAU 1998  

Thomas G. Fetsco, Ph.D., Associate Professor

(B.S., M.S., M.A., University of Wyoming; Ph.D., Texas A&M University 1987)

Psychology, information processing analyses of learning and assessment

NAU 1989  

Lena R. Gaddis, Ph.D., Associate Professor

(B.S., North Georgia College; M.Ed., Ph.D., University of Georgia 1987)

School psychology, social-emotional assessment, preschool assessment and development

NAU 1991  

Yolanda E. Garcia, Ph.D., Assistant Professor

(B.A., M.C., Ph.D., Arizona State University 1996)

Neuropsychology, counseling, cognitive processing of older adults

NAU 1999  

Melvin E. Hall, Ph.D., Professor

(B.S., University of Illinois; M.A., Northern Illinois University; Ph.D., University of Illinois 1979)

Program evaluation, educational research, individual and group identity formation and maintenance, role of higher education

NAU 1998  

Denice Ward Hood, Ph.D., Assistant Professor

(B.A., Northern Illinois University; M.A., University of Illinois; Ph.D., Arizona State University 1998)

Lifespan development, program evaluation

NAU 1998  

Robert Horn, Ph.D., Assistant Professor

Robert.Horn@nau.edu

(B.A., University of Central Oklahoma; M.S.; Ph.D., University of Memphis 2004)

Holland’s theory, career decision-making

NAU 2004

William Kolodinsky, Ph.D., Assistant Professor

William.Kolodinsky@nau.edu

(B.A., University of Delaware; M.A., University of Central Florida; Ph.D., Mississippi State University 1994)

Counselor education, self-efficacy, family adaptability and eating disorders, stress reduction, multifamily group therapy

NAU 2000  

Nick L. Lund, Ph.D., Professor, Executive Director of NAU-Yuma

(B.A., Austin College; M.S. Ph.D., Tulane University 1968)

Psychology, management

NAU 1994  

William E. Martin Jr., Ed.D., Professor

(B.S., Iowa State University; M.A., University of Northern Iowa; Ed.D., University of Northern Colorado 1979)

Counseling psychology, person-environment psychology, ethnocultural assessment, rehabilitation, career development, substance-abuse prevention and intervention

NAU 1986  

Susanna Maxwell, Ph.D., Professor

(B.A., Ph.D., University of Texas-Austin 1978)

School psychology, consultation, effects of anxiety and attributions on academic performance

NAU 1978  

Sherri N. McCarthy-Tucker, Ph.D., Associate Professor

(B.Ed., B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Arizona State University 1995)

Human lifespan developmental psychology, educational psychology

NAU 1996  

John McClure, Ph.D., Associate Professor

(B.A., University of Pennsylvania; M.S., Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University 1994)

Educational psychology, learning and instruction, concept and skill attainment, problem solving

NAU 1995  

Mary McLellan, Ph.D., Associate Professor

(B.A., University of Texas-Austin; M.S., Ph.D., Syracuse University 1982)

School psychology, assessment and treatment of attention-deficient disorders, anxiety in children

NAU 1993  

Ramona Netto Mellott, Ph.D., Associate Professor

and Chair

(B.A., M.A., University of Bombay, India; M.S., Ph.D., University of Southern Mississippi 1991)

Counseling psychology, family functioning in abusing families, psychological adjustment of sexually abused girls, familial alcoholism, five-factor personality model

NAU 1991  

Eugene R. Moan, Ed.D., Professor

(B.A., Arizona State University; M.A., Ed.D., Northern Arizona University 1979)

Educational psychology, family and relationship issues in counseling

NAU 1981

Adelaida Santana Pellicier, Ph.D., Associate Professor

(B.A., B.S., M.A., Ed.S., Ph.D., Kent State University 1986)

Student personnel, multicultural counseling and development, counselor education and supervision

NAU 1988  

Timothy C. Thomason, Ed.D., Associate Professor

(M.A., Ed.S., Ed.D., George Peabody College of Vanderbilt University 1977)

Brief psychotherapy, health psychology

NAU 1977-82, 1989  

Faculty Emeriti

James R. Fredrick, Ed.D., Professor

(A.B., Westminster College; M.Ed., Ed.D., University of Missouri 1961)

Educational psychology, counseling

NAU 1961 (retired 1991)  

Jettie M. McWilliams, Ed.D., Professor

(B.A., Berea College; M.A., Ed.D., University of Kentucky 1966)

Counseling and personality, role conflicts in professional women

NAU 1981 (retired 1995)  

Craig W. Sidles, Ph.D., Professor

(B.A., Cornell College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Iowa 1968)

Professional and ethical development, nonbiased assessment

NAU 1968 (retired 1999)  

Thomas J. Vanderhoof, Ph.D., Associate Professor

(B.A., University of Northern Colorado; M.Ed., University of Georgia; Ph.D., University of Northern Colorado 1969)

Educational psychology, counseling

NAU 1972 (retired 2000)