HeRD Lab Team
Principal Investigator
Jenny M. Cundiff, Ph.D. (Google Scholar)
Associate Professor Department of Psychology Email: [email protected] Phone: (205) 348-5083 Office Location: Gordon Palmer Hall 183 Dr. Cundiff examines how our social lives contribute to poor physical health, and is particularly interested in how broad social factors like socioeconomic status and race may come to influence health through differences in everyday social interactions and experiences. |
Graduate Students
Chris Wendel, M.S.
Entry Year: 2018-2019 Email: [email protected] Chris is interested in early environment, adversity, resilience, and later mental and physical health outcomes. He is currently on internship at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in Columbus, Ohio. |
Robert D. Faulk, M.S., M.A. (Google Scholar)
Entry Year: 2019-2020 Email: [email protected] Office Location: Gordon Palmer Hall 186 "Bobby" hails from Mobile, Alabama where he attended the University of South Alabama. There he earned his B.A. in Psychology, M.S. in Experimental Psychology, and M.A. in Sociology, and he was awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. His primary research interests revolve around the relations among socio-environmental factors (e.g., stress, parenting, social status) and psychophysiological functioning. |
Adrian C. Williams, M.S.
Entry Year: 2020-2021 Email: [email protected] Adrian's research interest focuses on the psychological and biological mechanisms linking social-environmental influences on health. He is particularly interested in elucidating how social risk and protective factors (e.g., socioeconomic status, social relationships, stress, discrimination) translate into biological changes that impact mental and physical health. Adrian is also a Pre-doctoral Scholar in the Health Policy Research Scholars program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, led by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
Carson Schmitz, B.A.
Entry Year: 2023-2024 Email: [email protected] Carson graduated from the University of Mississippi with a B.A. in Psychology and subsequently worked in a post-baccalaureate position at the University of Rochester. Her research interests focus on the impact of individual difference factors, such as racial/ethnic background, environmental stress, and socioeconomic position on health disparities and the maintenance of problematic anxiety. |