Current MA and PhD Students
The following are select graduate degree candidates.
Layla Kratovic
Email: kratovic@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD - Clinical Psychology
Post-traumatic Stress, Grief, Psychosocial Resources, Forensic Psychology
Advisors: Charlene Baker and Anthony Papa
Stephanie Lin
Email: luyenlin@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD - Clinical Psychology
Clinical Behavioral Analysis, Culture, Health Psychology, Social-Emotional Well-being, Implementation and Dissemination Science
Advisors: Yiyuan Xu
Raissa Lou
Email: rlou6@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD - Clinical Psychology
Eating Disorders, Body Image, Female Athletes, Health Disparities
Advisor: Janet Latner
Aaron Nakamura
Email: aaronaka@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD - Cognition, Neuroscience, and Social
fMRI, Childhood Trauma, Neural Plasticity, Perception
Advisor: Jonas Vibell
Grace Mellor
Email: gmellor@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD - Clinical Psychology
ADHD, Social Media, Technology, Self-Esteem, Masking
Advisor: Patrick Goh
Lorie Okada
Email: lorieo@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD - Clinical Psychology
Community Psychology, Health and Well-Being, Poverty Research and Evaluation, Mental Health Disparities
Advisor: John (Jack) Barile and Anthony Papa
Cerila Rapadas
Email: cerilar@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD - Clinical Psychology
Pacific Islanders, Depression, Mental Health Disparities, Measure and Construct Validation
Advisor: Akihiko Masuda
Maximillian Soares Miehlstein
Email: maxi2468@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD - Community, Cultural, and Developmental
Identity, Social Perception, Nonverbal Expression, Culture
Advisor: Ashley Maynard
Anamalia Suʻesuʻe
Email: suesuea@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD - Community, Cultural, and Developmental
Culturally Responsive Programs and Policies for Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders, Indigenous Research Methodologies, Community-Engaged Research, Policy Research, Program Evaluation
Advisor: Ashley Maynard
Jinke Sun
Email: jinke@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD - Clinical Psychology
Effective Treatments, Dissemination and Implementation, Parental Engagement, Treatment Targets
Advisor: Brad Nakamura
Kyani Uchimura
Email: kyani@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD - Clinical Psychology
Bereavement and Grief Responses, Adverse Life Events, Attachment Styles
Advisor: Anthony Papa
Thu (Allie) Vo
Email: vot@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD - Cognition, Neuroscience, and Social
Attention, Perception, Perceptual Load, Inattentional Blindness, Inattentional Amnesia, Multisensory Processing
Advisor: Scott Sinnett
Rachel Ward
Email: wardrach@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD - Clinical Psychology
Body Image, Eating Disorders, Health Psychology, Systematic Reviews, Meta-Analysis
Advisor: Janet Latner
Elizabeth Weitz
Email: eaweitz@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD - Community, Cultural, and Developmental
Community Empowerment, Computational Democracy, Collective Decision-Making, Digital Deliberation, Trust, Well-Being
Advisor: John (Jack) Barile
Ashlyn Wong
Email: awwaw@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD - Clinical Psychology
ADHD, Child Psychopathology, Culture, Service Access and Utilization, Resilience-Based Factors
Advisor: Patrick Goh