EMILY A. HERRY, PhD

Emily Herry is a postdoctoral scholar at The Ohio State University College of Nursing Center for Healthy Aging, Self-Management, and Complex Care. Prior to completing their Ph.D. Emily worked as a primary instructor, research assistant, and graduate student in the Lifespan Development area of the Psychology department at North Carolina State University. During their time at NCSU, Emily worked in the Social Development Lab with Dr. Kelly Lynn Mulvey. During their undergraduate at UNC - Greensboro, Emily worked in the Development and Understanding of Children's Knowledge lab with Drs. Janet Boseovski and Stuart Marcovitch.

Broadly, Emily's research addresses (1) social development in intergroup contexts, (2) bullying, exclusion, and bystander intervention online and offline, (3) the impact of individual and contextual factors on gender identity development, health, and wellbeing across the lifespan. Emily is especially interested in engaging in these lines of research with transgender, gender-diverse, and gender-nonconforming people.

Some research questions Emily aims to answer are:  How do transgender and gender nonconforming people come to think about and engage with their identities throughout their development? How can we encourage positive bystander intervention and intergroup relationships online and off?  What factors influence the health and development of transgender, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming people? 

Service: Emily currently serves as a Student and Early Career Leadership Representative on the Steering Committee and the Communications Committee for the Society for Research in Child Development Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity/Expression (SOGIE) Caucus within the Society for Research in Child Development.