Elizabeth J. Marsh, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Email: emarsh@psych.duke.edu
Office: 212 Sociology-Psychology Building
Phone: (919)-660-5796
Fax: (919)-660-5726

Biography  

Dr. Marsh received her B.A. in Psychology from Drew University in 1994. She then went to Stanford University, where she studied human memory with Dr. Gordon Bower and Dr. Barbara Tversky. Dr. Marsh received her Ph.D. in cognitive psychology in 1999. She then completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at Washington University in St Louis, working primarily with Dr. Henry L. Roediger, III. Dr. Marsh arrived at Duke in the summer of 2003 and currently runs a lab focusing on human memory. Memory projects in the lab span a variety of areas, including eyewitness testimony, autobiographical memories, how people represent information from fictional sources, and the educational implications of testing.

   
Lisa Fazio
Graduate Student
Ph.D. expected 2009

Email: lfk@duke.edu
Office: 213 AA Sociology-Psychology Building
Phone: (919)-660-5797
Fax: (919)-660-5726

Biography
 

Lisa received her B.A. in Psychology from Washington University in St. Louis in 2004. While she was there, she wrote an honors thesis on memory for the pragmatic implications of sentences with Dr. Kathleen McDermott. Lisa began the graduate program at Duke in 2004.

Andrea Eslick
Graduate Student
Ph.D. expected 2011

Email: andrea.eslick@duke.edu
Office: 213 AA Sociology-Psychology Building
Phone: (919)-660-5797
Fax: (919)-660-5726

Biography
 

Andrea received her B.S. in Psychology from Iowa State University in 2006. While she was there, she did an independent study on false memory for color names versus actual colors with Dr. Anne Cleary. She began the graduate program at Duke in 2006.

Aaron Johnson
Associate in Research
B.A. 2007

Email: aaron.johnson@duke.edu
Office: 213 B Sociology-Psychology Building
Phone: (919)-660-5797
Fax: (919)-660-5726

Biography
 

Aaron Johnson graduated from Duke University in 2007 with bachelor's degrees in psychology and political science. Besides human memory, his research and professional interests include politics (particularly political theory), law (particularly criminal and constitutional), social psychology and the relationships between these areas.

Anna Goswick
Associate in Research
B.S. 2008

Email: anna.goswick@duke.edu
Office: 213 B Sociology-Psychology Building
Phone: (919)-660-5797
Fax: (919)-660-5726

Biography
 

Anna Goswick graduated from Regis University in May of 2008 with a Bachelor's of Science in Neuroscience and Kinesiology. Her specific interests in psychology include the effects of aging on motor and cognitive abilities, and the effects of motivation and mental practice on athletic performance.

 
   
Current Undergraduates Working in the lab:

Virginia Crowder
Major: Psychology
Class: 2009

Faith Villanueva
Major: Biology
Class: 2012

Nurah Lawal
Major: Biology
Class: 2009

Alexandra Sall
Major: Psychology
Class: 2011

 

Polly Kang
Major: Public Policy, Economics
Class: 2012

 

Graduation with Distinction Student:

Hayden Bottoms
Major: Psychology/Neuroscience, Chemistry
Class: 2009

Project Topic: Memory Errors

LAB ALUMNI: click here to see past lab members