Meet the Faculty
Robert S. Feldman is Professor of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where he is Director of Undergraduate Studies. Professor Feldman is a fellow of both the American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Society. He is a winner of a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar and Lecturer award and has written some 100 scientific articles, book chapters, and books. His research interests encompass the development of non-verbal behavior in children and the social psychology of education. His research has been supported by grants from the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Institute on Disabilities and Rehabilitation Research.
Sherry Lynn Kinslow received all three of her degrees from the University of Arizona in Tucson. Her undergraduate degree and master's are in English; her doctorate is in educational psychology. Sherry has had a diverse career which has included being a television producer, photojournalist, and training consultant. She has taught psychology for schools in a variety of locales including Arizona, Hawaii, and Scotland. For the past five years she has worked at Prince George's Community College where she has served as Associate Director of the Humanities Resource Center. She was the project director for PRISM and PRISM II, funded by NSF.
Benjamin B. Lahey received his undergraduate training from Davidson College and his Ph.D. in experimental psychology from the University of Tennessee. He taught at both community college and university levels, including the University of Georgia and the University of Miami, before joining the faculty at the University of Chicago. Ben is an award-winning teacher and a frequent speaker at the Annual National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology. He is also an active researcher on the behavioral and emotional problems of children; his research has been supported by the National Institute of Mental Health for many years. Ben was a representative of the field of psychology on the DSM-IV Child Disorders Work Group and a member of the US liaison group for the mental health section of the International Classification of Diseases.
Ken McGraw received his undergraduate degree in English Literature from Washington and Lee University in 1966. Following two years in the Peace Corps, two years as a TEFL teacher in downtown Atlanta, and two years in Japan on a Fulbright Grant, he attended the University of Oklahoma where he received his Ph.D. in experimental psychology in 1976. Since then he has been on the faculty at the University of Mississippi where he has served as director of undergraduate studies, department chair, and instructor for a medley of courses ranging from developmental psychology and statistics to the psychology of problem solving. Currently, he is project director on a three-year FIPSE grant to establish and promote PsychExps as an online psychology laboratory.
Bill Southerly received his undergraduate training from West Virginia University and his Ph.D. in child development and family studies from Purdue University. He has taught at both the junior college and university levels, as well as in the private sector before joining the faculty at Frostburg State University in Maryland. Bill is best known for the development and management of the TIPS (Teaching In the Psychological Sciences) Internet discussion group and has recently added two new groups to the TIPS' family (TIPS-METHODS and TIPS-DEVELOP). He is a frequent participant in regional and national teaching conferences and has a strong interest in developing multimedia/web applications for the classroom.
Mary Helen Spear graduated from St. Louis University in 1967 and completed her doctorate at University of Maryland in 1971. She then began teaching at Prince George's Community College where she has been ever since, except for one year that she taught in Tehran, Iran for the University of Maryland. At PGCC Mary Helen has been a department chair, director of the Prior Learning Program and currently is the Faculty Coordinator of Distance Learning. Mary Helen has been involved with a number of grants, including two Fulbright-Hayes grants to China and Poland, a USAID grant involving Poland, as well as an ALO grant to South Africa, and two NSF grants to produce PRISM.
Patricia Wallace earned her doctorate at the University of Texas at Austin, and also attended Rice University, University of Colorado, and University of Maryland University College (UMUC). She spent a decade in Japan as a faculty member and university administrator, and is now Associate Vice President and Chief Information Officer at UMUC, where she is deeply involved in the use of technology to enhance learning. She is currently the principal investigator on several grants involving the development of multimedia courseware and online course delivery from Annenberg/Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and the University System of Maryland.
Danny Wedding joined the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine in 1991 as Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Missouri Institute of Mental Health (MIMH). Dr. Wedding was trained as a clinical psychologist at the University of Hawaii. He later completed two years of postdoctoral training working as a Health Policy Fellow and Science Policy Fellow for the US Congress. Dr. Wedding's research interests include international health, mental health policy, the portrayal of mental illness and addictions in films, and large scale community education projects designed to alter attitudes about mental illness and substance abuse.
Susan Krauss Whitbourne received her Ph.D. from Columbia University and has dual specializations in life-span development and clinical psychology. She has taught at the State University of New York at Geneseo and the University of Rochester. At the University of Massachusetts, she received the College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Teacher Award. She is the Honors Coordinator in the Psychology Department, the Faculty Advisor to Psi Chi, and a faculty advisor within the newly established Commonwealth Honors College. Professor Whitbourne is regarded as an expert in the field of personality development in adulthood and old age, and has served as President of Division 20 of APA (Adult Development and Aging). She also serves as the Division 2 (Teaching of Psychology) Liason to the APA Committee on Aging.
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