ASSeRT Lab Members
Lab Directors
Doctoral Students
Alexandra Nicoletti, MA
she/her
Level: 5th year, PhD Candidate
Clinical Internship: VA Hudson Valley Healthcare System; Montrose, NY
Research Interests:
Sexual Decision
-
Making, Consent, Sexual Violence, Gender Roles
Dissertation Topic:
Risk Factors of College Student Dating Violence Victimization During
the Red Zone
Fun Fact:
I take my cat, Jasper, on walks and hikes!
Faith Shank, MA
she/her
Level: 5th year, PhD Candidate
Clinical Internship: South Texas VA (San Antonio TX), Primary Care/Behavioral Medicine
emphasis, Rotations: Primary Care Mental Health Integration (PCMHI), Sleep Medicine,
Spinal Cord
Injury
Research Interests: College alcohol use, health behaviors, interventions for heavy drinking
Dissertation Topic:
Adapting a PNF intervention to graduate students who engage in heavy
drinking
Fun Fact:
I am a quarter Japanese and am learning the language!
Meg Korovich, MA
she/her
Level: 4th year, PhD Candidate
Research Interests: Sexual Health, Sexuality, Sexual Violence Prevention
Dissertation Topic: Health
Behaviors and
Institutional
Needs for
U
.
S
.
C
ollege
S
ex
Workers
Fun Fact: My
pitbull/lab puppy Remy is the light of my life 😊
Jonathan Jin, MSc
he/him
Level: 3rd year, PhD Student
Research Interests:
Caregiver
-
child dyads, adverse childhood experiences, sexual violence
Dissertation Topic:
The relationship between adverse childhood experiences and parental
stress
considering the mediating role of resilience
Fun Fact:
I am from Canada and I like to visit
Toronto during my breaks!
Marta Bettinelli, MA
she/her
Level: 2nd year, PhD Student
Research Interests:
The role of personal identity and cultural ideology in interpersonal violence
within close relationships.
Master’s Thesis Topic
:
Social Dominance Orientation as a predictor of dating violence by
male and female college student
-
athletes in heterosexual relationships.
Fun Fact:
My first language is Italian!
Leslie Sijia Huang, MA
she/her
Level: 1st year, PhD Student
Research Interests: Sexual Dysfunction, Couple Therapy, Aggression and Sexual Arousal
Google scholar
Fun Fact: I am from Chengdu, China, and my hometown is known for pandas 🐼
Sarah Baker, MA
she/her
Level: 1st year, PhD Student
Research Interests: Sexual Violence Perpetration, Sexual Attraction to Violent Individuals
Fun Fact:
I
’
ve been a published poet since I was 8
-
years
-
old.
Post-baccalaureate Students
Stacey Rose, M.A.
she/her
Level: 3rd year, PhD Student (Widener University)
Research Interests: Title IX, sex discrimination in reality television, moral reasoning, moral injury, consent education
Fun Fact: I have won both a cake eating contest and a push up contest (but at separate times!).
Undergraduate Students
John Shirley
he/him
Level: 4th year, Undergraduate
Research Interests: Sexual Health, Sexuality, Sexual Violence Prevention
Fun Fact: I’m in the New Jersey Army National Guard!
Miranda Wurst
she/her
Level: 3rd year, Undergraduate
Research Interests: Sexual aggression/antisocial behaviors in juveniles, STI destigmatization,
comprehensive sex education, human trafficking
Fun Fact: I have three cats named Oliver, Gizmo, and Pauly D.
-
all of whom I am very much
shamelessly obsessed with.
Jessica Meidhof
she/her
Level: 3rd Year, Undergraduate
Research Interests: Sexual
Aggression
and
Crime
Fun Fact: I love
music,
and
I’m
learning
how
to
play
the
guitar.
Humphrey Brosius
Job title or function
Katherine Santos
she/her
Level: 2nd year, Undergraduate
Research Interests: Behavior, the brain, and various aspects of human personality
Fun Fact: I am fully bilingual and I was born in Guatemala.
Lucas De Armas
he/his
Level: 2nd year, Undergraduate
Research Interests: Applied behavior analysis, sexual victimization, aggressive behavior
Fun Fact: I am a big ping pong player!
Elijah Workman
he/him
Level: 2nd Year, Undergraduate
Research Interest: Substance Induced Aggression & Relational Sexual Dynamics
Fun Fact: I’ve been writing a novel for the past three years, with hopes of finishing the first draft
in 2025.