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Team
Co-PI Team
Dr. Don Davis
Don (Donnie) Davis Jr., PhD, is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Georgia State University. Donnie did undergraduate work at Yale and his doctorate at Virginia Commonwealth University. He completed his psychology pre-doctoral internship at Clemson University and is currently licensed in the state of Georgia. A member of the Matheny Center for the Study of Stress, Trauma, and Resilience, Donnie has worked on over 30 grants, many with the John Templeton Foundation. His research and clinical interests are in the area of positive psychology. His work focuses on humility and related virtues such as forgiveness and gratitude. He also does work on the role of religion/spirituality in character development. He has published over 275 articles or chapters. He has also written books on several of these themes. He is the Associate Editor of the Journal of Positive Psychology. Donnie has a wife and three kids, Catherine (age 14), Adam (age 9), Emerson (age 3) and enjoys biking, hiking, and other outdoor activities—and he loves reading.
Dr. Joshua Hook
Joshua N. Hook is a Professor of Psychology at the University of North Texas, where he teaches Positive Psychology and Multicultural Counseling. He completed his Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University in 2010. His research interests focus on humility, religion/spirituality, and multicultural counseling. He won the American Psychological Association (APA) Division 17 and 36 early career awards, and is a fellow of APA and the International Society for Science and Religion (ISSR). He has written several books, including Cultural Humility: Engaging Diverse Identities in Therapy and the Handbook of Humility. He also blogs regularly about psychology and faith at JoshuaNHook.com. He lives in Dallas, TX with his wife Jenn and daughter Autumn.
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Dr. Daryl Van Tongeren
Dr. Daryl R. Van Tongeren is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Hope College. He completed his Ph.D. in Experimental Social Psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University in 2011. He was named a 2016 Association for Psychological Science (APS) Rising Star. He won the American Psychological Association (APA) Division 36 (Society for the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality) Margaret Gorman Early Career Award for 2022, and the 2022 Early Career Contributions Award for the International Society for the Science of Existential Psychology. He is a Fellow of APS, the Society for Experimental Social Psychology (SESP), the Midwestern Psychological Association (MPA) and the International Society for Science and Religion (ISSR). He has more than 200 scientific publications on meaning in life, religion, and virtues, and his work has been supported by numerous external grants.
Dr. Heather Battaly
Heather Battaly is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut. She specializes in epistemology, ethics, and virtue theory. She is the author of Virtue (2015), the editor of The Routledge Handbook of Virtue Epistemology (2018) and of Virtue and Vice, Moral and Epistemic (2010), and co-editor of Vice Epistemology (2020). She is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Philosophical Research, and Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Philosophical Association. She has published widely on the topics of intellectual virtue and intellectual vice. Her currents projects focus on: humility, closed-mindedness, and vice epistemology. Her work has been supported by several external grants.
RFP Mechanisms Track
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Shauna M. Bowes, MA
Shauna M. Bowes, MA, is a sixth-year Ph.D. student in Emory University’s clinical psychology doctoral program. Shauna worked with the late Dr. Scott Lilienfeld and currently works with Dr. Arber Tasimi (Morality and Development Lab). Shauna is interested in how personality intersects with beliefs. Specifically, she focuses on intellectual humility and its potential implications for political polarization and conspiratorial ideation. She has scientific publications in Journal of Personality, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
Dr. Peter C. Hill
Peter C. Hill, Professor of Psychology at the Rosemead School of Psychology and Director of the Office of Academic Research and Grants at Biola University, is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and is a past president of APA’s Division 36 (Society for the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality). His research interests resulting in over 150 publications include positive psychological virtues such as humility and gratitude, religious/spiritual measurement, religious fundamentalism, and the role of affect in religious and spiritual experience. He is co-author of The Psychology of Religion: An Empirical Approach (5th ed., Guilford Press).
Dr. Joshua Hook
Joshua N. Hook is a Professor of Psychology at the University of North Texas, where he teaches Positive Psychology and Multicultural Counseling. He completed his Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University in 2010. His research interests focus on humility, religion/spirituality, and multicultural counseling. He won the American Psychological Association (APA) Division 17 and 36 early career awards, and is a fellow of APA and the International Society for Science and Religion (ISSR). He has written several books, including Cultural Humility: Engaging Diverse Identities in Therapy and the Handbook of Humility. He also blogs regularly about psychology and faith at JoshuaNHook.com. He lives in Dallas, TX with his wife Jenn and daughter Autumn.
Dr. Stacey E. McElroy-Heltzel
Dr. Stacey E. McElroy-Heltzel is an Assistant Professor of Counseling Psychology at The University of Iowa. She completed her Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology at Georgia State University in 2017. She is a recipient of the 2022 Outstanding Researcher Award from the College of Education at The University of Iowa and is a licensed psychologist in the state of Iowa. Her work on intellectual humility has received grant funding from the Self, Virtue, and Public Life Project (funded by the Templeton Religion Trust), the Center for the Science of Moral Understanding, and the John Templeton Foundation. She has more than 40 scientific publications on humility, religion/spirituality, and forgiveness.
Early Career Community of Practice
Dr. Cirleen DeBlaere
Cirleen DeBlaere, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Counseling Psychology at Georgia State University. Her work examines the experiences of individuals with multiple and intersecting marginalized identities, with a particular emphasis on the experiences of women of color and other groups with intersecting marginalized identities. To date, her work has focused on the links of minority stressors (e.g., discrimination, prejudice, stigma) to mental health and potential intervening factors in these links. She also examines the role of cultural humility in clinical practice, supervision, and training. Her areas of expertise have led to her garnering over $9 million in federal and foundation training and research grants as PI, Co-PI, and Co-I. Dr. DeBlaere also consults on DEI issues in higher education with colleges/universities and non-profit organizations.
Dr. Kenneth G. Rice
Kenneth G. Rice, Ph.D., holds the Ken and Mary Matheny Endowed Professorship in the Department of Counseling and Psychological Services at Georgia State University. He also co-directs the Center for the Study of Stress, Trauma, and Resilience, a center devoted to developing multidisciplinary models for understanding and coping with stress that can be applied to real-world settings. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and a licensed psychologist in the State of Georgia. He primarily studies the personal characteristics and situational or social factors involved in a wide range of mental health, academic, and work-related outcomes.He also conducts cross-cultural comparative studies through collaborations with U.S. and multinational partners in Argentina, China, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Italy, South Korea, and Taiwan.
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We would like to acknowledge the generous financial support of the John Templeton Foundation (grant number 62265), Applied Research on Intellectual Humility: A Request for Proposals, hosted by the Matheny Center for the Study of Stress, Trauma, and Resilience at Georgia State University.