BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH



Name:

Title:

Katherine Aumer-Ryan

Graduate Student


Education:

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:

Year(s)

Title

Institution


2004-Current

Teaching Assistant

University of Texas at Austin
With Dr. Jim Spivey, Dr. Juan Salinas, Lisa Groesz


2004-Current

Graduate Student

University of Texas at Austin
Advisor: Dr. Bill Swann


Summer 2004

Research Assistant For Women's Center

University of Hawai'i at Manoa
With Dr. Christine Quemuel


2003-2004

Research Assistant

University of Hawai'i at Manoa
With Dr. Elaine Hatfield


2003-2004

Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselor

University of Hawai'i at Manoa
With Dr. Nancy Stockert


2003-2004

Statistician

University of Hawai'i at Manoa
With Dr. Susan Chandler


2003

Research Assistant

Le'ahi Retrovirology Lab
With Dr. Yuanan Lu


2003

Internship

University of Iowa
With Dr. Lee Anna Clark


2002-2003

Research Assistant

University of Iowa
With Dr. David Watson


Honors, Awards, and Scholarships:

Jul 2005

UT Austin Travel Fellowship

May 2003

Dean's Achievement Award/University of Iowa

Dec 2000-May 2003

Dean's List/University of Iowa

Jan 2002

UofI Club Scholarship/University of Iowa

May 1999

Soroptimist Volunteer Award/Soroptimists of Iowa

May 1998

AIDS Foundation Activist/National AIDS Fund Award

May 1998

Points of Light Foundation/National AIDS Fund Award

May 1998

Iowa Governor's Award/Governor of Iowa


Publications in review or in preparation:

Aumer-Ryan, K. and Hatfield, E. (in preparation). Equity in Romantic Relationships: A "Cultural Universal" or a phenomena shaped by Self-Construal and Ethnicity?


Aumer-Ryan, K. (in review). The Design of Everyday Hate: A Qualitative Analysis. Emotion.


Aumer-Ryan, K. (in review). Self-Construal Differences in the Experience of Hate. Journal of Cross Cultural Psychology.


Aumer-Ryan, K. and Aspinall, P. (in review). "Race is a Race is a Race": Changing Concepts of Race. International Journal of Intercultural Relations.


Presentations:

Jul 05 2005

Women's Experience in Graduate School

International conference of Political Psychology

Apr 20 2005

Everyday Design of Hate

UT Austin

Sep 22 2004

Differences in Conceptualizing Race

UT Austin

May 05 2003

Marital Satisfaction

University of Iowa


Ongoing research projects:

"Interpersonal Hate and Hate Crimes"

PI: Katherine Aumer-Ryan

Institution: University of Texas at Austin

Having students write and tell about their experiences with hate to better understand how it begins, affects people's lives and how it ends.


"Role-Verification and Equity in Romantic Relationships"

PI: Katherine Aumer-Ryan

Institution: University of Texas at Austin

Surveying couples to discover if Role-verification (a collectivist concept of self-verification) is more important in romantic relationships.


"Information-Seeking differences across Cultures"

PI: Katherine Aumer-Ryan

Institution: University of Texas at Austin

Conducting an online and laboratory study to discover if people from different cultures seek different types of information from strangers.


"Equity in Romance and Culture"

PI: Katherine Aumer-Ryan

Institution: University of Hawai'i at Manoa

Discovering if the concept of equity in romantic relationships is the same across cultures.


"Racial Mutability"

PI: Katherine Aumer-Ryan

Institution: University of Hawai'i at Manoa

Surveying students to discover how the concept of race is changing.