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Emily Herry is an incoming Assistant Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology at Converse University. They completed their postdoctoral fellowship (2025) in the College of Nursing at The Ohio State University (OSU) and their PhD (2023) in the Department of Psychology at North Carolina State University (NCSU). They received their BS in Psychology (2019) from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) and their AA (2017) from Alamance Community College.Prior to joining Converse, Dr. Herry worked in the Identity, Resilience, and Intersectional Science (IRIS) Lab, led by Dr. Christina Dyar at OSU, and volunteered in the Brenick Lab at the University of Connecticut. Before completing their PhD, Dr. Herry worked as a primary instructor, research fellow, and graduate student in the Lifespan Development area of the Psychology department at North Carolina State University. During their time at NCSU, Dr. Herry worked in the Social Development Lab with Dr. Kelly Lynn Mulvey. During their undergraduate studies at UNCG, Dr. Herry worked in the Development and Understanding of Children's Knowledge (DUCK) Lab with Drs. Janet Boseovski and Stuart Marcovitch.Research Interests: (1) bystanders’ response to victimization, especially identity-based victimization, across contexts and (2) contextual factors and stigma-related stressors that contribute to mental health outcomes and identity development across the lifespan among sexual and gender minority individuals. Dr. Herry is especially interested in these lines of work with gender minority people.Some research questions Dr. Herry aims to answer are: How can we encourage positive bystander intervention in response to identity-based victimization? What contextual and stigma-related factors influence the mental health and development of sexual and gender minority people? How do transgender and gender-diverse people come to think about and engage with their identities throughout their development, and what implications does this engagement have on their mental health?Advocacy and Service: Dr. Herry's commitment to advocacy and service is at the heart of everything they do. For example, they have created and shared guidebooks that provided guidance to teachers on how to promote an inclusive class environment for sexual and gender minority students. They have also shared their work on how to engage with one’s own identity and attend to the diverse identities of students and participants to create more inclusive research and teaching environments. Professionally, they have also served on a number of committees aimed at supporting SOGIE people and the developmental sciences.
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