Psychology – Full Time Research Faculty

  • Christopher Bullock, Ph.D., Email: christopher.bullock@fmarion.edu
    • Credentials: B.A., Psychology, University of North Carolina Wilmington; M.S., Psychology, University of Florida; Ph.D., Psychology, University of Florida; Board Certified Behavior Analyst
    • Research Interests: Applied Behavior Analysis and its application; reinforcement-based interventions for problem behaviors; technology use/computer programs for the automation of experimental contingencies and data collection.
  • Anna Caroline Chinnes, Ph.D., Email: annacaroline.chinnes@fmarion.edu
    • Credentials: B.A., Psychology, Francis Marion University; M.A., Clinical Psychology, Wichita State University; Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, Wichita State University
    • Research Interest: Anxiety; mental health; psychological well-being.
  • Antonio Cooper, Ph.D., Email: antonio.cooper@fmarion.edu
    • Credentials: B.S., Experimental Psychology, University of South Carolina; M.S., Clinical Psychology, Webster University; Ph.D., School Psychology, Howard University
    • Research Interest: Multicultural school psychology; multicultural family therapy.
  • Megan Haggard, Ph.D., Email: mhaggard@fmarion.edu
    • Credentials: B.S., Psychology, Furman University; M.A., Experimental Psychology, Baylor University; Ph.D., Social Psychology with statistics minor, Baylor University; Postdoctoral Fellowship, Institute for the Study of Human Flourishing, University of Oklahoma
    • Research Interest: Personality trait examination of intellectual humility; connections between intellectual virtue and morality; relationship between gender and morality; religiosity and sexism.
  • Matthew A. Hagler, Ph.D., Email: matthew.hagler@fmarion.edu
    • Credentials: B.A., Psychology and English, University of the South; M.A., Clinical Psychology, University of Massachusetts Boston; Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, University of Massachusetts Boston; Predoctoral Internship and Postdoctoral Fellowship, Clinical and Community Psychology, Yale School of Medicine
    • Research Interest: Youth mentoring; adolescence and emerging adulthood; college student well-being; LGBTQ+ youth.
  • Crystal R. Hill-Chapman, Ph.D., ABPP, Email: chillchapman@fmarion.edu
    • Credentials: B.A., Psychology, English, Education, Francis Marion University; M.S., Applied Psychology, Cognate in School Psychology, Francis Marion University; Ph.D., Clinical/School Psychology with cognates in Research, Measurement, and Statistics and Clinical Child and Family Psychology, Texas A&M University; Clinical Internship, Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine; Postdoctoral Fellowship in Autism Spectrum Disorders, Texas Children’s Hospital; Postdoctoral Certificate of Advanced Graduate Studies in Clinical Genetics, Simmons College
    • Research Interests: Development and assessment of children’s social, emotional, and behavioral disorders; prevention science; family functioning of children diagnosed with neurodevelopmental and genetic disorders, including autism.
  • Laurie Sullivan Hunter, Ph.D., Email: laurie.hunter@fmarion.edu
    • Credentials: B.A., Psychology, University of Alabama – Huntsville; M.A., Experimental Psychology, University of Alabama – Huntsville; Ph.D., Developmental Psychology, University of Alabama – Birmingham
    • Research Interest: Cognitive and perceptual aspects of emotion recognition; facial expressions; eye-tracking; child maltreatment.
  • Jesse Q. Sargent, Ph.D., Email: jsargent@fmarion.edu
    • Credentials: B.A., Psychology, University of Vermont; Ph.D., Cognitive Neuroscience, George Washington University; Postdoctoral Fellow, Dynamic Cognition, Washington University in St. Louis
    • Research Interest: Spatial cognition and memory; event segmentation; cognitive aging.
  • Stephanie Williams, Ph.D., Email: stephanie.williams@fmarion.edu
    • Credentials: B.A., Psychology, University of Arizona; M.A., School Psychology University of South Carolina; Ph.D., School Psychology, University of South Carolina
    • Research Interest: Preschool and early childhood assessment and intervention, social/emotional development and behavioral regulation in young children.