Faculty
Below are the Department of Psychology faculty located on the St. Petersburg campus. For full bios and faculty on all campuses, visit the departmental website.
Cognition, Neuroscience and Social Faculty
Jennifer O'Brien
Title: Associate Professor and Campus Chair
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Phone: 727-873-4415
Email: jenobrien@usf.edu
Office: DAV 115
Area of Interest: Attention, Cognitive Aging, Dementia Prevention
Title: Assistant Professor
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Email: julianafrench@usf.edu
Office: DAV 111
Area of Interest: Cognition, Neuroscience, & Social
Max Owens
Title: Associate Professor
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Phone: 727-873-4533
Email: mjowens@usf.edu
Office: DAV 102
Area of Interest: Cognition, neuroscience and social
Mark Pezzo
Title: Associate Professor
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Phone: 727-873-4020
Email: pezzo@usf.edu
Office: DAV 113
Area of Interest: Judgmental biases, with a focus on the competing influences of motivational and cognitive
processes in many areas, including hindsight bias, planning fallacy, perceptions of
offensiveness, and the spread of rumors
Wendy Rote
Title: Associate Professor
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Phone: 727-873-4957
Email: wmrote@usf.edu
Office: DAV 114
Area of Interest: Cognition, neuroscience and social
Clinical Faculty
Tiffany Chenneville
Title: Professor
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Phone: 727-873-4585
Email: chennevi@usf.edu
Office: DAV 117
Area of Interest: Youth sexual health with a focus on psychosocial issues facing youth living with or
at risk for HIV; Global sexual health; Research, treatment, and professional ethics
Kemesha Gabbidon
Title: Assistant Professor
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Phone: 727-873-4263
Email: kgabbido@usf.edu
Office: DAV 112A
Area of Interest: Stigma, Intersectionality, Qualitative Methodology
James McHale
Title: Professor
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Phone: 727-873-4848
Email: jmchale@usf.edu
Office: DAV 121A
Area of Interest: Clinical
Instructional Faculty
Svetlana Chesser
Title: Assistant Professor of Instruction
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Email: svetlanachesser@usf.edu
Office: DAV 121
Aimee Johnson
Title: Assistant Professor of Instruction
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Email: aimeejohnson@usf.edu
Office: DAV 118