People
Graduate Student Collaborators
Former Graduate Students
Nathan R. Todd, Ph.D., Vita
Professor, 2023-present
Department of Psychology
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Associate Professor, 2018-present
Department of Psychology
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Assistant Professor, 2014-2018
Department of Psychology
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Assistant Professor, 2010-2013
Department of Psychology
DePaul University, Chicago IL
Education
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Ph.D. 2010
Fuller Theological Seminary, M.A. Psychology 2004
Fuller Theological Seminary, M.A. Theology 2004
University of Oklahoma, B.A. Psychology 2002
Allyson Blackburn
Allyson Blackburn (she & they) is a doctoral candidate in clinical-community psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Allyson is studies how a person’s context and social relationships can impact sexual and gender-based violence risk and recovery. They are especially interested in how a person’s social environment can impact recovery and the victimization of LGBTQ survivors. Allyson is interested in research methods that can further the study of an individual’s interaction with their context (e.g., social-network analysis, hierarchical linear models, daily diary methods).
Seungju Kim
Seungju Kim (he/him) is a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Program Fellow and graduate student in the Clinical-Community Psychology PhD program at the University of Illinois. Seungju is primarily interested in understanding how religiosity (i.e., engagement within established institutions that are designed to facilitate spirituality) and spirituality (i.e., the search for the sacred) shape biases, empathy, and health disparities in privileged and marginalized communities. Ultimately, Seungju aims to uncover insights that can inform religious and non-religious leaders and community members, clinicians, and researchers’ approaches to caring for marginalized communities.
Raymond La
Raymond's area of research focuses on Asian American and Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) mental health. Specifically, he focuses on how cultural factors (e.g., loss of face, ethnic identity, internalized model minority myth) and race-related experiences (e.g., racial discrimination) may impact mental health stigma, help seeking behavior, and psychopathology. Raymond is additionally expanding his area of research to investigate these factors in Asian American and BIPOC LGBTQ+ communities.
Daniel M. Nguyễn
Daniel Nguyễn (he/him, any pronouns) is a doctoral student in the Clinical-Community Psychology program at the University of Illinois. His research interests broadly deal with health equity and the intersection of racial-ethnic and LGBTQ+ identity. In particular, he studies (a) racial-ethnic discrimination (i.e., exclusion, fetishization) in sexual/romantic partnering among queer men and masculine people; (b) how anal/penetrative sex roles are established as binary and used to essentialize in queer men and masculine people’s social relations; and (c) the role of social identities and policy in health indicators.
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- Emily J. Blevins
- Brett A. Boeh Bergmann
- Yara Mekawi
- Jacqueline Yi
DePaul University
- Jaclyn D. Houston-Kolnik
- Elizabeth A. McConnell
- Charlynn Odahl-Ruan
- Rachael L. Suffrin
