Faculty & Staff
John F. Axelson
Professor
(Ph.D., Tulane University)
Fields: Neuroendocrinology, hormones and
behavior, neuroanatomy, health and medicine
Phone: 508-793-3434
Office: Beaven 410
Box: 155A
E-mail: jaxelson@holycross.edu
Daniel Bitran
Associate Professor
(Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo)
Fields:
Neuropsychology and psychopharmacology of anxiety and mood disorders; neurosteroids and psychotropic effects; gonadal hormones
and cognition
Office: Beaven 426 Box: 39A
Phone:
508-793-3329
E-mail: dbitran@holycross.edu
Alison Bryant Ludden
Assistant Professor
(Ph.D., University of Michigan)
Fields: Adolescent
development, youth risk and resiliency, motivation and schooling, problem behaviors (e.g., eating disorders, substance use, dropout),
religiosity
Office: Beaven 328 Box: 114A
Phone:
508-793-3898
E-mail: aludden@holycross.edu
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Danuta Bukatko
Joseph H. Maguire ’58 Professor of Education
Chair, Department of Education
Professor
Affiliate, Women’s
and Gender Studies
(Ph.D., University of Massachusetts at Amherst)
Fields: Child development, cognitive
development in early childhood including memory and representation, social cognition, gender-role
development.
Office: Beaven 323 Box: 175A
Phone:
508-793-3433
E-mail: dbukatko@holycross.edu
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Gregory DiGirolamo
Associate Professor
(Ph.D., University of Oregon)
Fields: Cognitive neuroscience,
cognitive control and its disturbance, visual attention
Office: Beaven 402
Phone:
508-793-2748
E-mail: gdigirol@holycross.edu
Mark Freeman
Professor
Assistant Dean, Class of 2011
(Ph.D., University of
Chicago)
Fields: History and philosophy of psychology; the self; narrative psychology; psychology of art and
creativity
Office: Beaven 331 Box: 26A
Phone:
508-793-3081
E-mail: mfreeman@holycross.edu
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Andrew Futterman
Associate Professor
(Ph.D., Washington University)
Fields: Clinical psychology,
aging, grief, depression and religion in later life, history and philosophy of clinical psychology
Office: Beaven
316 Box: 105A
Phone: 508-793-3432
E-mail: afutterm@holycross.edu
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Mark Hallahan
Associate Professor
(Ph.D., Harvard University)
Fields: Social Psychology, person
perception, impression formation, causal attribution
Office: Beaven 330 Box:
164A
Phone: 508-793-2279
E-mail: mhallaha@holycross.edu
Jumi Hayaki
Assistant
Professor
(Ph.D., Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey)
Fields: Clinical psychology; eating
disorders; substance use disorders; emotional dysregulation
Office: Beaven 336
Phone:
508-793-2612
E-mail: jhayaki@holycross.edu
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Suzanne Kirschner
Associate Professor
(Ed.D., Harvard University)
Fields: History and philosophy
of psychology; cultural psychology; sociocultural studies of psychology/psychiatry; theories of
personality
Office: Beaven 332 Box: 127A
Phone:
508-793-3589
E-mail:skirschn@holycross.edu
Patricia E. Kramer
Associate Professor
(Ph.D., Columbia University)
Fields: Visual perception, perception of
biological motion, face perception
Office: Beaven 333 Box: 179A
Phone:
508-793-3035
E-mail: pkramer@holycross.edu
Charles M. Locurto
Professor
(Ph.D., Fordham University)
Fields: Animal behavior, comparative
intelligence, individual differences in animal problem solving, behavioral genetics
STRONG>Office: Beaven 413
Box: 75A
Phone: 508-793-2278
E-mail: clocurto@holycross.edu
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Rebekah Phillips
Visiting Instructor
Fields: Cultural psychology, forgiveness and identity in
post-conflict Africa
Office: Beaven 329
Phone: 508-793-3620
E-mail: rphillip@holycross.edu
Richard Schmidt
Associate Professor
(Ph.D., University of Connecticut)
Fields: Cognitive Science,
interpersonal coordination, interlimb coordination, dynamical theories of behavior, ecological psychology
Office:
Beaven 328 Box: 176A
Phone: 508-793-2244
E-mail:rschmidt@holycross.edu
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Mark Sykes
Visiting Assistant Professor
(Ph.D., State University of New York at Albany)
Fields:
Clinical psychology, behavioral medicine, psychophysiology of anxiety, psychopathology of
anxiety
Office: Beaven 336 Box: 38A
Phone:
508-793-2748
E-mail: msykes@holycross.edu
Amy Wolfson
Professor and Department Chair
(Ph.D., Washington University)
Fields: Developmental
changes in sleep patterns; sleep and behavior in children, adolescents, and women; behavioral medicine and health
psychology
Office: Beaven 326 Box: 197A
Phone:
508-793-2219
E-mail: awolfson@holycross.edu
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Gary Chalifoux
Lab Coordinator
Office: Beaven 315 Box: 38A
Phone:
508-793-2216
E-mail: gchalifo@holycross.edu
Administrative Assistant
Office: Beaven 317
Box: 38A
Phone: 508-793-2218
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