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Connections Magazine 2025

New Faculty

Alejandra Aldridge

Assistant, Political Science
PhD, Political Science, Stanford University 2022

Stefania Ashby

Assistant Professor, Psychology
PhD, Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Oregon, 2021

Cortney Evans Stout

Associate Professor, Family Life Integrative Writing Coordinator
PhD, Marriage, Family, and Human Development, Brigham Young University, 2008

Dana Hunter

Associate Professor, Family Life
MS, Family Sciences, Brigham Young University, 1992

Nathan Leonhardt

Assistant Professor, Family Life
PhD, Psychology, University of Toronto, 2022

Chelsea Romney

Assistant Professor, Psychology
PhD, Health Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, 2021

Darin Self

Assistant Professor, Political Science
PhD, Government, Cornell University, 2022

Ruth Aguirre

Assistant Professor, Social Work Director of Field Education
Master of Social Work, Brigham Young University, 2011

Doug Atkinson

Assistant Professor, Political Science
PhD, Political Science and International Affairs, University of Georgia, 2018

Adriane Cavallini

Associate Professor, Psychology
PhD, Clinical Psychology, Brigham Young University, 2011

Rebecca Dudley

Assistant Professor, Political Science
PhD, Political Science, Duke University, 2023

Jeff Jackson

Associate Professor, Family Life
PhD, Marriage and Family Therapy, Brigham Young University, 2009

Grayson Morgan

Assistant Professor, Geography
PhD, Geography, University of South Carolina, 2022

Tyson Reeder

Assistant Professor, History
PhD, History, University of California, Davis, 2016

Becky Schulthies

Associate Professor, Anthropology
PhD, Linguistic Anthropology, University of Arizona, 2009

David Simpson

Professor, Geography PhD, City and Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley, 1996

Daye Son

Assistant Professor, Family Life
PhD, Family and Human Development, Arizona State University, 2023

Trace Stay

Assistant Professor, Psychology
PhD, Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, 2019

Joseph Stuart

Assistant Professor, History
PhD, US History, University of Utah, 2022

Suzanne Adams

Associate Professor, History Director of the Center for Family History and Genealogy
MA, History, Brigham Young University, 2008

Emily Brunson

Professor, Anthropology
PhD, Anthropology, University of Washington, 2010

Mallory Millet

Assistant Professor, Family Life
PhD, Developmental Psychology, Radboud University, 2024

Jenae Nelson

Assistant Professor, Psychology
PhD, Psychology, Brigham Young University, 2022

Elizabeth Thomas

Assistant Professor, Anthropology
PhD, Anthropology, Southern Methodist University, 2024

Rebekka Weidmann

Assistant Professor, Psychology
PhD, Psychology, University of Basel, 2017

Amber Williams

Associate Professor, Family Life
PhD, Curriculum and Instruction, Utah State University, 2021