Emeriti

Dr. Tessa Benson-Greenwald

Dr. Tessa Benson-Greenwald is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of Pittsburgh in the Learning Research and Development Center. She is interested in the factors that lead people to perceive goal opportunities as available in their majors and careers whether that be through contextual cues or mindsets that encourage people to think about their roles differently. She is also interested in the consequences of perceiving particular careers, and the individuals in them, as being motivated by power versus pro-sociality.

Melanie Cervantes

Melanie Cervantes

Alex Dlugosz

Alex Dlugosz

Mary Drake

Mary Drake

Dr. Mansi Joshi

Dr. Mansi Joshi is a Senior Research Associate at Veris Insights. Her general research interests are centered around gender and racial issues in education. Her research focuses primarily on how how face-based traits of real and hypothetical people signal different opportunities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). She is also interested in motivational cultures and artifacts within STEM environments that influence how individuals navigate their role.

Dr. Melissa Fuesting

Dr. Melissa Fuesting is a Survey Researcher at the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR), where she contributes to the platinum standard of surveys on salaries and benefits in higher education. Melissa manages surveys investigating benefits offerings in higher education, and is hard at work becoming her team's resident benefits expert. In another key part of her role, Melissa uses CUPA-HR data to conduct research on higher education workforce issues including gender pay gaps and diversity within the higher ed workforce. Melissa is thrilled to continue to contribute to efforts to support equity and inclusion in the United States workforce, albeit in a different way than she did during her doctoral work.

Alicia Macchione

Alicia Macchione

Benjamin Maddock

Benjamin Maddock

Kelly Molloy

Nathaniel Merriott

Nathaniel Merriott

Ruby Smith

Ruby Smith 

Dr. Heidi Vuletich

Dr. Heidi Vuletich is an Assistant Professor at the University of Denver who received her PhD in 2020 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Heidi was a visiting scholar in the Social Roles Lab in 2019-2020, and a NSF-funded postdoctoral scholar in 2020-2022. She primarily focuses on how social group inequalities and structural inequalities influence people's perceptions and youth's achievement trajectories. In particular, how economic, gender, and race disparities can change the way youth think about themselves and others, influence people's implicit biases, and shape people's perceptions fo what it means to have "enough."

Ayla Winegar

Ayla Winegar