Claire A. Stiles
Professor of Human Development
Ph.D., University of Florida

Professor Stiles combines a background in mental health counseling with a special interest in moral development and professional and applied ethics. A Master Trainer with the Institute for Global Ethics, she offers workshops in Ethical Fitness, and, more recently, is working in the Alternatives to Violence project locally. Her other interests include community health, alternative health practices, and the promotion of healthy lifestyles.

Nancy G. Janus
Professor of Human Development
Ed.D, University of Massachusetts

Professor Janus has particular interest in children's issues. She has been professor of counseling and school psychology and has done clinical work with children in schools and private practice settings. She is especially interested in international adoption and has made adoption a professional specialty area both for practice and research.

April Schwarzmueller
Associate Professor of Human Development
Ph.D., Emory University

Professor Schwarzmueller is a developmental psychologist with expertise in child development. Areas of special interest to her are gender development, adolescent development, memory development, and forensic psychology. Her research interests include children’s memory in eyewitness testimony situations and empirical assessments of effective college teaching activities.

Paige Dickinson
Assistant Professor of Human Development
Ph.D., RDT/BCT, California School of Professional Psychology, APA accredited program in Clinical Psychology

Professor Dickinson combines a specialization in Healthy Psychology and the Creative Arts Therapies. Additional areas of interest include cultural issues in the classroom, caregiving across roles, trauma and ethics.