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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH |
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Name: |
Title: |
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Katherine Aumer-Ryan |
Graduate Student |
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Education: |
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Institution |
Degree |
Year(s) |
Field of Study |
University of Iowa |
B.A. |
2003 |
Psychology |
University of Iowa |
B.A. |
2003 |
Theatre |
University of Iowa |
B.A. |
2003 |
Philosophy (Indian Buddhism) |
Research and Professional Experience: |
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Year(s) |
Title |
Institution |
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2004-Current |
Teaching Assistant |
University of Texas at Austin |
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2004-Current |
Graduate Student |
University of Texas at Austin |
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Summer 2004 |
Research Assistant For Women's Center |
University of Hawai'i at Manoa |
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2003-2004 |
Research Assistant |
University of Hawai'i at Manoa |
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2003-2004 |
Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselor |
University of Hawai'i at Manoa |
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2003-2004 |
Statistician |
University of Hawai'i at Manoa |
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2003 |
Research Assistant |
Le'ahi Retrovirology Lab |
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2003 |
Internship |
University of Iowa |
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2002-2003 |
Research Assistant |
University of Iowa |
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Honors, Awards, and Scholarships: |
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Jul 2005 |
UT Austin Travel Fellowship |
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May 2003 |
Dean's Achievement Award/University of Iowa |
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Dec 2000-May 2003 |
Dean's List/University of Iowa |
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Jan 2002 |
UofI Club Scholarship/University of Iowa |
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May 1999 |
Soroptimist Volunteer Award/Soroptimists of Iowa |
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May 1998 |
AIDS Foundation Activist/National AIDS Fund Award |
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May 1998 |
Points of Light Foundation/National AIDS Fund Award |
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May 1998 |
Iowa Governor's Award/Governor of Iowa |
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Publications in review or in preparation: |
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Aumer-Ryan, K. and Hatfield, E. (in preparation). Equity in Romantic Relationships: A "Cultural Universal" or a phenomena shaped by Self-Construal and Ethnicity? |
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Aumer-Ryan, K. (in review). The Design of Everyday Hate: A Qualitative Analysis. Emotion. |
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Aumer-Ryan, K. (in review). Self-Construal Differences in the Experience of Hate. Journal of Cross Cultural Psychology. |
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Aumer-Ryan, K. and Aspinall, P. (in review). "Race is a Race is a Race": Changing Concepts of Race. International Journal of Intercultural Relations. |
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Presentations: |
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Jul 05 2005 |
Women's Experience in Graduate School |
International conference of Political Psychology |
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Apr 20 2005 |
Everyday Design of Hate |
UT Austin |
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Sep 22 2004 |
Differences in Conceptualizing Race |
UT Austin |
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May 05 2003 |
Marital Satisfaction |
University of Iowa |
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Ongoing research projects: |
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"Interpersonal Hate and Hate Crimes" |
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PI: Katherine Aumer-Ryan |
Institution: University of Texas at Austin |
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Having students write and tell about their experiences with hate to better understand how it begins, affects people's lives and how it ends. |
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"Role-Verification and Equity in Romantic Relationships" |
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PI: Katherine Aumer-Ryan |
Institution: University of Texas at Austin |
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Surveying couples to discover if Role-verification (a collectivist concept of self-verification) is more important in romantic relationships. |
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"Information-Seeking differences across Cultures" |
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PI: Katherine Aumer-Ryan |
Institution: University of Texas at Austin |
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Conducting an online and laboratory study to discover if people from different cultures seek different types of information from strangers. |
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"Equity in Romance and Culture" |
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PI: Katherine Aumer-Ryan |
Institution: University of Hawai'i at Manoa |
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Discovering if the concept of equity in romantic relationships is the same across cultures. |
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"Racial Mutability" |
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PI: Katherine Aumer-Ryan |
Institution: University of Hawai'i at Manoa |
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Surveying students to discover how the concept of race is changing. |
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