Expert Perspectives

College of Psychology and Liberal Arts faculty were honored to be published in a number of distinguished publications and to present at many prestigious events during the past few months. They include:

Andrew Aberdein published the following articles: “Virtues Suffice for Argument Evaluation,” Informal Logic. 43. 543-559 (2024); “Anonymous Arguments,” Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, October 2023; “Deep disagreement in mathematics,” Global Philosophy, 33:17 (2023); and “The Fallacy Fallacy: From the Owl of Minerva to the Lark of Arete,” Argumentation 37(2):269–280 (2023).

Also, Aberdein wrote the chapter “Argumentation in Mathematical Practice” with Zoe Ashton, and the separate chapter “Introduction to Views from Other Domains” in Handbook of the History and Philosophy of Mathematical Practice. B. Sriraman (eds), Springer, Cham., September 2023.

Aberdein presented: “Arguer’s Intent” at Legal Theory Festival 2023, Edinburgh Law School, University of Edinburgh, in June; “Virtues suffice for argument evaluation” at ISSA 2023: 10th Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation, University of Leiden, in July; and “Anonymous arguments,” Society for Applied Philosophy annual conference, University of Antwerp, also in July. His visiting Ph.D. student, Yiran Wang, also gave a talk at the ISSA 2023 meeting, as well as a second visiting Ph.D. student, Fei Wen.

Richard Addante, J. Lopez-Calderon, N. Allen, C. Luck, A. Muller, L. Sirianni, C.S. Inman and D.L. Drane published “An ERP measure of non-conscious memory reveals dissociable implicit processes in human recognition using an open-source automated analytic pipeline,” in Psychophysiology, 60, e14334 (2023).

Felipa T. Chavez and colleagues were featured in the Philadelphia Eagles Autism Foundation sponsored grants showcase after receiving a $25,000 grant from the organization. The funds fuel the dissemination of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy training to Black and Latino clinicians servicing Black and Latino families with a child diagnosed as being on the autism spectrum.

Additionally, Chavez recently published papers in several publications:

Phillips, S., Druskin, L.R., Lilly, C., Chavez, F., Morgand, S., Wallace, N., Cibralic, S., Kimonis E., Hawes, D., Eapend, V., McNeil, C. B., & Kohlhoff, J. (in press). “The Eyberg Child Behavior Inventory: Developing an Adaptation for Toddler-aged Children,” Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment.

Jent, J. F., Rothenberg, W. A., Peskin, A., Acosta, J., Weinstein, A., Concepcion, R., Dale, C., Bonatakis, J., Sobalvarro, C., Chavez, F., Hernandez, N., Davis, E., & Garcia, D. (in press). “An 18-week Model of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy: Clinical approaches, treatment formats, and predictors of success for predominantly minoritized families,” Frontiers in Psychology.

Del Vecchio, T., Terjesen, M., Dobson, K.S., Fernandez, A., Drapeau, M., Doyle, K.A., Goldfried, M.R., McNeill, B., Scudder, A.T., Chavez, F.T., & McNeil, C. (2023). “Reflections on CBT Supervision and Training for Therapy and Consultation.” In: Terjesen, M.D., Del Vecchio, T. (eds) Handbook of Training and Supervision in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Springer, Cham.

Chavez also presented two peer-reviewed conference presentations as part of Symposia 1467058: Emerging Trends in Parent-Child Interaction Therapy at the Association for Behavioral Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) 57th Annual Convention in Seattle, Washington: “Assessing Clinicians’ Perspectives of the Cultural Sensitivity of PCIT with Black Families,” by Coates, E.E., Chavez, F.T., Aron, E., Hayes, K., Coffey, S., Farrise, K., & Agbeli, E. (2023), and “Creating Community: Lessons from a Culturally Sensitive Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) Training of Black & Latinx clinicians servicing Black & Latinx Families with Autistic Children,” by Chavez, F.T., Onovbiona, H., Quetsch, L.B., & Scudder, A.T. (2023).

She was an invited guest lecturer on “Hays “ADDRESSING” Exercise: Keys to Cultural Humility & Building Bridges, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, Maryland (2023).

Chavez, a licensed clinical psychologist, was appointed a multicultural consultant from July 2023 to July 2025 with the PCIT International Florida Department of Children and Families contract for the purposes of Parent Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) Training of clinicians throughout the state of Florida. An over $1.1 million award will fund the training.

Melissa Crofton served as guest editor for a special collection of six essays that appeared in the South Atlantic Review in September. The collection, titled “Out with the Old, In with the New: Changing Trajectories in David Lowery’s The Green Knight,” is from her call for papers for SAMLA 94 in November 2022. Crofton also wrote the collection’s introduction, “Medieval Poem versus 21^st Century Film: Why Choose One When You Can Have Both?” Her other article in the collection is “‘You Are No Knight’: David Lowery Rivals a Medieval Poem in The Green Knight.”

In addition, two articles in this essay collection are from recent Florida Tech graduates Rachel Martin ’18 and Michelle Wolf ’18. Martin penned “A New Tale?: The Welsh in David Lowery’s The Green Knight” and Wolf wrote “A Knight Should Know Better”: Sexual Integrity and the Madonna-Whore Dichotomy in Lowery’s The Green Knight.” This is the first published article for each of them.

Crofton also published “The Resurrection and Reconstruction of Nicholas Love’s The Mirror of Blessed Life of Jesus Christ in Early Modern England” in the October issue of British Catholic History.

Leah Day, adjunct instructor in the School of Arts and Communication, presented “Critical Visual Literacy in Diverse Graphic Novels” with Eric Stanford at the For the Love of Reading conference in Utah in October. The session outlined additional skills and frameworks for teaching graphic novels through a critical lens.

Natalie M. Dorfeld recently published The Invisible Professor: The Precarious Lives of the New Faculty Majority by University Press of Colorado and WAC Clearinghouse. The edited book collection discusses the detrimental effects of adjunct exploitation in higher education. In September, she presented “How the Pandemic Changed Me” at the WPA Conference in Little Switzerland, North Carolina.   

Jonathan K. Fernand, was elected as a member-at-large to the Florida Association for Behavior Analysis; presented a panel discussion, “Navigating the field as a member of an underrepresented community,” at the 43^rd annual meeting for the Florida Association for Behavior Analysis in September; was invited to present a talk, “Building competency in the assessment and treatment of pediatric feeding disorders,” at the Organización Mexicana de Practicantes del Análysis Conductual Aplicado (OMPAC) inaugural conference in Oaxaca, Mexico; and provided a podcast for ABA Speech on Restrictive and Repetitive Behavior.

Fernand also recently published four papers:

Lazaro, X. A., Winter, J. M., Fernand, J. K., Cox, D. J., & Dorey, N. R., “Efficacy of Edible and Leisure Reinforcers with Domestic Dogs,” Animals 2023, 13(19), 3073;

Mead Jasperse, S. C., Kelly, N. P., Ward, S. N., Fernand, J. K., Joslyn, P. R., van Dijk, W., “Consent and Assent Practices in Behavior Analysis,” Behavior Analysis in Practice (2023);  

Fernand, J. K., Slocum, S. K., Baker Simms, C., & Vollmer, T. R., “An Evaluation of Delays to Reinforcement in the Treatment of Problem Behavior Maintained by Access to Rituals,” Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis (2023); and

Grauerholtz-Fisher, E., Vollmer, T. R., Fernand, J. K., Perez, B., Amanieh, H., Wunderlich, K., & Peters, K. P. (2023). “A Comparison of Baseline Procedures in Task Analyses,” Behavior Modification, 47, 1144-1169.

Yanek Mieczkowski chaired the panel “Reassessing America in the 1970s: Legacies of Kissinger, Inflation, and the Bicentennial” and presented the paper “Balanced on a Razor’s Edge: Gerald Ford, Inflation, Recession, and the 1970s Economy” at the American Historical Association Conference in San Francisco in January.

Moti Mizrahi’s guest column on the safety promises of artificial intelligence, “Don’t let tech companies use us as guinea pigs,” appeared in The Hill newspaper Nov. 29.

Anna Muenchrath, Ph.D., published “In Accord with the Spirit of American Democracy”: Tracing the Network of the U.S. Armed Services Editions, in American Literature, Vol. 95, No. 4, December 2023 by Duke University Press, pp. 671-699.

Kenneth R. Pike published “A Contractualist Approach to Political Education” in Analytic Teaching and Philosophical Praxis, 43(2): 44-58.

Renée Nicole Souris published “Child Soldiers, Agency, and Aristotelian Virtue Ethics” in The International Journal of Children’s Rights, 31.3 (2023): 698-728.

Robert Taylor penned the article, “Florida in the Civil War,” included in the recently released anthology, Once Upon a Time in Florida: Stories of Life in the Land of Promises. The book is curated from the archives of FORUM, the award-winning magazine of Florida Humanities. Taylor spoke about the article at the Florida Historic Capitol Museum in Tallahassee in November as part of a statewide tour for the richly illustrated book.

David Wilder recently published articles in three publications:

Jimenez, S., Wilder, D., Brand, D., Carr, J. E., Sellers, T., & Mason, M. “The Performance Diagnostic Checklist-Human Services (1.1): An initial assessment of validity and reliability,” Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis (2023).

Wilder, D. Cymbal, D., & Echeverria, F. (in press). Performance Diagnostic Assessment. In J. Luiselli (Ed.), Behavior Safety and Clinical Practice in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. Springer.

Wilder, D., Sheppard, C., & Ingram, G. “A comparison of fixed momentary differential reinforcement of other behavior to variable momentary differential reinforcement of other behavior to reduce challenging behavior,” Behavioral Interventions (2023).

Wanfa Zhang presented “American Domestic Politics and Its Impact upon US-China Relations from Trump to Biden,” at the 2023 Meeting of Chinese Community of Political Science and International Studies (CCPSIS), Tsinghua University, Beijing, in July. He also attended the World Peace Forum there before the conference. In August, he was an invited lecturer on “Geopolitical, Cultural and Ideological Causes of US-China Strategic Predicament and Implications for the World” at the Sino-American Symposium on Academic, Economic, and Cultural Collaboration sponsored by American Federation of International Students Associations.