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Mandy O. Hyden

mhyden@fas.harvard.edu

Financial Associate

Mandy is responsible for performing a variety of accounting and office functions. She handles multiple financial operations for the Department, including processing CITI Corporate Card expense reports, reimbursements, billings, account reconciliations and...

Kazuki Irie

kirie@fas.harvard.edu

Postdoc

Gershman Lab

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Joshua Conrad Jackson

Assistant Professor of Psychology (Starting July 1, 2026)

Joshua Conrad Jackson’s research focuses on the intersection of cultural evolution and psychology. He studies how people’s psychologies change as societies become larger, more diverse, more economically developed, and more connected to each other. He has...

Baland Jalal

baland_jalal@fas.harvard.edu

Associate

Richard McNally's Lab

Dr. Baland Jalal is a researcher at Harvard's Department of Psychology and formerly a visiting researcher at Cambridge University's Department of Psychiatry. He obtained his Ph.D. at the Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine (Trinity College) and was a...

William James

(1842-1910)

(1872-1907) at Harvard

Established Harvard's Psychology Department

William James, philosopher and psychologist, was instrumental in establishing Harvard's psychology department, which at its inception was tied to the department of philosophy. James himself remained unconvinced that psychology was in fact a distinct...

Jerome Kagan

(1929-2021)

Jerome Kagan was the Daniel and Amy Starch Research Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. He was one of the key pioneers of developmental psychology.

Sarah Kalinowski

skalinowski@fas.harvard.edu

Postdoc

Schacter Lab

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Haley Keglovits

hkeglovits@fas.harvard.edu

College Fellow in Psychology

Haley is a College Fellow with Prof. Talia Konkle and received a PhD in Cognitive Science from Brown University. Haley studies how the brain formats information for complex behavior using fMRI and computational models – how do we go from neurons that can...

Herbert Kelman

hck@wjh.harvard.edu

(1927-2022)

Social Influence and Attitude Change

Professor Kelman received his Ph.D. at Yale University, where he worked with Carl Hovland in the early days of the Yale attitude change project. He first came to Harvard in 1957 as Lecturer on Social Psychology in the Social Relations Department. In 1962...

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Tonya Kisner-Cynn

tonyakisnercynn@fas.harvard.edu

Senior Sponsored Research Administrator

My background includes 10 years of Harvard University experience beginning in Financial Administration where I worked across various financial processes and systems including Oracle, Accounts Payable, PeopleSoft, and Procurement, before transitioning to...

Karestan C. Koenen

kkoenen@hsph.harvard.edu

Professor of Psychiatric Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Associate Member, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

Affiliated Faculty, Harvard University Center for the Environment

Karestan C. Koenen, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist, epidemiologist, and author. She is Professor of Psychiatric Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health where she aims to reduce the population burden of mental disorders. She is...

Talia Konkle

talia_konkle@harvard.edu

Professor of Psychology

Talia Konkle's research focuses on the cognitive and neural organization of high-level visual experience: how do we see and understand the visual world around us? She employs a combination of behavioral techniques, human functional neuroimaging and...