STUDENTS
 Email: tahmed@gc.cuny.edu; tanzinaahmed1@hotmail.com Hometown: Astoria, New York. Background: B. A., Psychology, CUNY Hunter College through the Macaulay Honors College scholarship program. Previously worked as an intern for US Fund for UNICEF and as a research assistant at CUNY Hunter before attending the Graduate Center. Area of Interest: Currently, I am developing a research study investigating possible differences between patterns of transference of internal working models of attachment in emerging adults and in older adults with Claudia Brumbaugh at CUNY Queens College. I am also interested in broader contextual influences on attachment representations and the impact of adolescent peer friendships upon later romantic relationships  Email: llucic@gc.cuny.edu Hometown: Belgrade, Serbia and Brooklyn, NY Work Background: In addition to designing and teaching courses for high school students on Immigration to New York City at the New York Historical Society, Luka has taught courses in Developmental Psychology and Psychoanalytic Theory at Hunter College CUNY. Luka was a Public Policy Fellow at the Colin Powell Center for Policy Studies and has served as an Adult Literacy Fellow at The Office of the Mayor, New York City. Research Background: During his studies Luka has done research on psycho-social development of immigrants in large urban settings. Together with Glen Milstein conducted a large study examining developmental effects of immigration on well being. His second year research project focused on context-embedded development of self in refugees from Bosnia living in Berlin, Germany. Publications: Luka’s publications include Young Immigrants: A Psychosocial Development Perspective with G. Milstein appeared in Encounter: Education for Meaning and Social Justice, 17(3), 24-29 and a recent submission with C. Daiute, What matters to youth in the aftermath of war? Area of Interest: Context-embedded development, socio-cultural theory, narrative inquiry, psychodynamic theory.  Email: tklein-spring@gc.cuny.edu, toni.spring@qc.cuny.edu Education: BA Social Science, Adelphi University, NY MS. Reading, K-12, Adelphi University, NY PD. Literacy Studies, Hofstra University, NY Employment: Lecturer, Teaching Fellows Advisor, Elementary and Early Childhood Education, EECE, Queens College, CUNY Areas of Interest: Moral development, developmental changes in eyewitness identification, children’s eyewitness testimony, teachers’ judgment of fairness and efficacy in the classroom.  Email: ytakagi@gc.cuny.edu Hometown: Japan Languages: English, Japanese, Russian Recent Research: A new approach to assessing the cognitive and affective character of parent-child moral encounters. (Paper was presented at Jean Piaget Society Conference/June, 2008) Area of Interest: Affect and cognition on moral development. Developmental processes of morality/moral judgment. Play styles (in Japan) Hobbies: Play with my dog, Ski, Synchronized swimming, French cooking, Flower arrangement Teaching: Hunter, CUNY
Naomi J. Aldrich
Email: aldrich_psych@hotmail.com Hometown: Albuquerque, New Mexico Background: B.A. Psychology, University of Tennessee; M.A. Experimental Psychology, Brooklyn College, City University of New York. Interned at the Florence Crittenton Agency and Lakeshore Mental Health Institute (Knoxville, TN) prior to entering graduate school. Research Interests: Children’s early understanding of complex emotion and their use of evaluative devices within their fictional narratives; social coordination and communication among twins at risk for developmental delay; examination of the characteristics of effective discovery learning methodology(s) through meta-analysis; gender differences in adolescent-parent emotion talk.  Email: pvfusella@yahoo.com Background: B.A. psychology, Rutgers University, M.A. psychology, New York University. Area of interest: Developmental psychopathology and resilience among urban adolescents at risk, cultural and contextual influences on identity development, philosophy of psychology.  Email: vbarrios@gc.cuny.edu Hometown: Richmond Hill, Queens, NY Background: B.A. Psychology & Sociology, St. Joseph's College; NY. MSW, Hunter College School of Social Work, CUNY, NY. Worked clinically with the adolescent population, trauma and HIV/AIDS affected clients, and most recently with at-risk families. Area of Interest: Social justice issues affectong people of color; at-risk adolescents and their families; ethnic identity development Minor/Concentration: Africana, Caribbean, and Hispanic Studies  Email: kirkmanc@gmail.com Hometown: New York, New York Background: B.A. Psychology & Italian, Georgetown University; M.A. Developmental Psychology, Columbia University Teachers College. Areas of Interest: Human development from a dynamic systems perspective; adolescent development; human development in atypical contexts and developmental pathways of risk and resilience; moral development and cognition in context; informing policy, education, and programs of prevention/intervention with developmental science.  Email: fvictory@gc.cuny.edu Hometown: New York, N.Y. Educational Background: B.S. Psychology, SUNY Binghamton University; M.A. Applied Educational Psychology, Northeastern University. Work Background: Worked as a teacher and teacher assistant in a Montessori preschool and Early Intervention setting. Research Background: Research in behavioral medicine, early literacy, training teachers to utilize technology in the classroom, urban environment afterschool programs, Jewish preschool teachers' perceptions and views of inclusion, and socio-emotional development of autistic children. Area of Interest: Early childhood development. Cultural and religious understanding/perceptions of disability. Socio-emotional development of autistic children. Parental identity of a child with disability. Urban afterschool programs for adolescents.
Renata Strashnaya Email: renata.strashnaya@gmail.com Hometown: Brooklyn, NY Areas of Interest: Influence of perception on immigrant adolescents' identity; identity construction and socio-cultural experience of immigrant females in late adolecence and emerging adulthood; gang deliquency in a socio-cultural context.
Laura Paskell-Brown Email: laurapb@gmail.com Hometown: Manchester, UK Background: BA from Oxford University in Politics, Philosophy and Economics, MSc from London School of Economics in Social and Cultural Psychology. Laura has worked as a food journalist for Time Out, a fundraiser for a San Francisco non-profit and an opera singer. She is thrilled to be finally settling into a career and working with Anna Stetsenko here at the Grad Center. Areas of Interest: Anti-racism and activism; development and change of social movements and social movement actors. |