DIRECTOR

Dr. Sara McClelland, Director of ProgressLab, is Professor of Women's & Gender Studies and Psychology at the University of Michigan. She studies how U.S. public policies shape people’s sexual and reproductive imaginations. Dr. McClelland received her Ph.D. from The Graduate Center at the City University of New York and was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the University of Michigan’s Society of Fellows.

saramcc@umich.edu

LAB MEMBER

Emily Briggs is a PhD Candidate in the Developmental Psychology program. Her work is centered in late life and takes a developmental approach to understand how people change throughout the life course. She is particularly interested in understanding how feelings of belonging and social relationships may change in later life.

embriggs@umich.edu

LAB MEMBER

Gracia Dodds is a doctoral candidate in the department of Sociology. She studies institutional responses to disclosures of sexual violence, sexual identity formation, and adolescent sexualities.

gracia@umich.edu

LAB MEMBER

Sarah Lapean is a PhD Candidate in the joint program of Psychology and Women's & Gender Studies. Her research examines how people define or deny harm through spaces and practices of social meaning-making. Areas of interest include morality, sex education, legislation, queer identity, and book bans.

slapean@umich.edu

LAB MEMBER

Jay (they/she) is a dual-doctoral student in the Women's & Gender Studies and Psychology departments. Utilizing critical feminist epistemology, her work investigates the ways in which womanhood is imagined, enacted, and accessed (or rejected). Particularly, they are interested in how sexuality and reproductive health manifest in and shape conceptualizations of womanhood.

seibold@umich.edu

LAB MEMBER

Julia Smoot is a doctoral student in the Gender and Feminist Psychology Program. Her work examines the factors that impact feelings of sexual guilt and how sexual guilt is measured in research. Julia's research interests include gender differences in sexual behavior, sexual scripts, and queer identity.

jsmoot@umich.edu

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the ProgressLab

Counseling Psychology, PhD (University of Minnesota)

Dr. Majel Baker is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's University in Minnesota.

Psychology (Personality and Social Contexts), PhD

Dr. Will Beischel is an Assistant Professor at Loyola University Chicago.

Psychology & Women’s Studies, PhD

Dr. Sarah Bell is an Assistant Professor at Utah Tech University.

Political Science, PhD

Dr. Logan Casey is the Senior Policy Researcher & Advisor at Movement Advancement Project (MAP).

Psychology (Personality and Social Contexts), PhD

Dr. Tangier Davis is an Organizational Data Insights and Analytics Manager at Modivcare.

Psychology & Women’s and Gender Studies, PhD

Dr. Dutcher is a Program Officer at the Lineage Foundation for Good.

Psychology & Women’s and Gender Studies, PhD

Dr. Kayla J. Fike is an Assistant Professor at Vanderbilt University.

Psychology & Women’s Studies, PhD

Dr. Kathryn Holland is an Associate Professor at the University of Nebraska.

Psychology (Personality and Social Contexts), PhD

Public Health, PhD

Dr. Michelle Marie Johns is a Senior Research Scientist at NORC at the University of Chicago.

Psychology & Women’s and Gender Studies, PhD

Dr. Leanna J. Papp is an Assistant Professor of Population Health Sciences and a member of the Violence Against Women Faculty Cluster at the University of Central Florida

Psychology & Women’s Studies, PhD

Dr. Özge Savaş is an Assistant Professor at College of the Holy Cross.

Psychology (Personality and Social Contexts), PhD

Dr. Haley Sparks is the Director of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in External Affairs at the University of California, Los Angeles.