Meet the Team
The work we do in PENLab is highly transdisciplinary, and our research benefits from the diverse interests and expertise of our members. We regularly attract graduate students and research assistants aspiring to careers in speech-language pathology, special education, psychological services and academia.
Principal Investigator
Lindsay Harris, Ph.D. CV
Associate Professor of Educational Psychology
Co-director, Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language and Literacy
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Academia
Lindsay Harris received her Ph.D. degree in cognitive psychology from the University of Pittsburgh in 2014. Prior to earning her Ph.D., she was an English teacher in Misato, Japan and the New York City Public Schools. Harris studies spoken and written language learning and processing from neurocognitive and developmental perspectives. Her current line of research, funded by the National Institutes of Health/National Eye Institute, investigates the ways in which visual experience affects word learning and vocabulary development in children ages 5-14.
NIU Faculty Affiliates
- Allison Gladfelter, Ph.D., School of Allied Health and Communicative Disorders
- Molly Pasley, Ph.D., Department of Special and Early Education
Graduate Students
- Brad Blair, Educational Psychology Ph.D. Program
- Tremaine Love, Educational Psychology Ph.D. Program
- Dawn Soto, Educational Psychology Ph.D. Program
Research Assistants
- Emily Frahm, Communicative Disorders B.S. Program
- Emerson Gaines, Communicative Disorders B.S. Program
- Daisy Guerrero, Communicative Disorders/Linguistics Studies B.S. Program
- Jessica Meza, Communicative Disorders/Deafness B.S. Program
- Alicia Moore, Communicative Disorders Postbaccalaureate Student
External Collaborators
- Elyzia Powers, Minot State University
- Rebecca Treiman, Washington University, St. Louis
Alumni
- Kimberly Dotseth, Arizona State Schools for the Deaf and Blind
- Katherine Frank
- Nosheen Gul
- Alicia LaRouech, Speech-Language Pathology Master’s Program, Northern Illinois University
- Iwona Lech, LanguageMania
- Ailing Li, Yunnan Minzu University
- Luis Lopez, Journeys Community Center
- Alexandria Mayer
- Arianne Sevillano, Arizona State Schools for the Deaf and Blind
- Gracie Strohm, Sweet Peas Therapy
- Sean Tikkun, North Carolina Central University
