Suzanne Perkins, Ph.D.

2008

 
 

Positions:


University of Michigan Department of Psychiatry         Ann Arbor, Michigan

    Post Doctoral Researcher,                        April, 2007 to Present

    Psycho Affective Neuroimaging Lab

        Mentor - Israel Liberzon, M.D.

    Functional neuroanatomy of pediatric obsessive compulsive disorder

        PI - Kate Fitzgerald, M.D.


Veteran’s Administration Hospital                     Ann Arbor, Michigan

    Data manager                                July, 2007 to Present

    Post Traumatic Stress Disorders Clinic


Education:


University of Michigan                                 Ann Arbor, Michigan

    Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Center                Summer, 2007

    Summer Intensive Course


University of Michigan                                 Ann Arbor, Michigan

    Ph. D. – Combined Program in Education and Psychology                 April 27, 2007


University of Michigan                         Ann Arbor, Michigan     Certificate in Development of Psychopathology and Mental Health           Winter 2005


University of Michigan                          Ann Arbor, Michigan     M. S.  – Psychology                                December 12, 2002


University of Massachusetts                             Amherst, Massachusetts     Certificate of Advanced Graduate Study - Special Education                September 1, 1998


Harvard Graduate School of Education                 Cambridge, Massachusetts     Ed.M. - Concentration in Teaching and Curriculum                   June 6, 1991


Hampshire College                                 Amherst, Massachusetts     B.A. - Concentration in Sociology of Education                              May 20, 1989


Honors & Awards:


Rackham One Term Dissertation Fellowship            Rackham Graduate School

    Recipient                                         Winter 2007


Barbara A. Oleshansky Award                     Rackham Graduate School

    Recipient                                             Fall 2005

    Psychology department competitive award for “outstanding women graduate students” who demonstrate financial need.


Harold and Vivian Shapiro Award     Rackham Graduate School

    Recipient    Fall 2005

    Rackham graduate school award for graduate students with unsubsidized student loans.


Roberson Award    Psychology Department

    Recipient    Summer 2005

    Psychology department competitive award determined by the graduate committee.


Departmental Associate    Psychology Department

    Faculty Appointed Position to Departmental Meeting.    2004 - 2006


Margaret Dow Towsley    Center for the Education of Women

Scholar    2004 – 2005

    Competitive scholarship awarded to women graduate students who have demonstrated excellence in their chosen fields.


Ruth L. Kirschstein    National Institute of Mental Health

National Service Research Training Grant    2002 – 2005

    Predoctoral Fellow

    Interdisciplinary Research Training Program on Violence and Mental Health

Competitive fellowship awarded to a small number of trainees in various fields to study violence in society.   


Grants:


Ruth L. Kirschstein    National Institute of Mental Health

National Service Research Training Grant    2008 – 2010

    Postdoctoral Fellow (pending)


Rackham Graduate Research Award                 Rackham Graduate School

    Recipient                                      Summer 2006


Spencer Mini Grant                              School of Education

    Grantee                                             Summer 2005

Competitive Grant program administered by the School of Education to provide funds for smaller research projects. Funded by the Spencer Foundation.

Professional Memberships:


International Society for Traumatic Stress Study

Society for Research on Child Development

Society for Research in Adolescence


Publications & Presentations:    


Publications                       


  1. ✦Astor, R., Benbenishty, R., Haj-Yahia, M. Zeira, A., Perkins-Hart, S., Marachi, R. and Pitner, R., (2002) The Awareness of Risky Peer Group Behaviors on School Grounds as Predictors of Students’ Victimization on School grounds: Part II – Junior High Schools, Journal of School Violence, 1(1), 11-33.

  2. ✦Astor, R., Benbenishty, R., Haj-Yahia, M. Marachi, R., Zeira, A., Perkins-Hart, S. and Pitner, R., (2002) The Awareness of Risky Peer Group Behaviors on School Grounds as Predictors of Students’ Victimization on School grounds: Part I – Elementary Schools, Journal of School Violence, 1(3), 57-76.

  3. ✦Perkins-Hart, S., (2002) Essays on Stephen Ambrose, Bernard Bailyn, Taylor Branch, Doris Kearns Goodwin, James McPherson and C. Vann Woodward for The Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literature, Harper Collins.

Papers under revision


  1. ✦Perkins, S., (2007) Maltreatment, Cognition, Disability and Psychopathology: Relations, Mechanism and Contexts. under revision, Psychological Review.

  2. ✦Astor, R., Pitner, R., & Perkins, S., (2007) Children’s Reasoning about Poverty, Physical Deterioration, Danger and Retribution in Neighborhood Contexts, under revision, Journal of Community Psychology.

  3. ✦Perkins, S., Graham-Bermann, S. & Smith-Darden, J. (2007). Typologies of Achievement and Violence Exposure in Incarcerated Adolescents, Child Abuse and Neglect.

Papers under review                       


  1. ✦Perkins, S., Peck, S. & Eccles, J. (2007) Typologies of Problem Behaviors in Seventh Grade and the Relation to Mental Health, Family Functioning, and Schooling, Development and Psychopathology.

  2. ✦Graham-Bermann, S. & Perkins, S. (2007). Contribution of Age at First Exposure to Intimate Partner Violence on child Adjustment, Journal of Interpersonal Violence.



Papers under review (cont.)

   

  1. ✦Graham-Bermann, S., Ametrano, R., Perkins, S., Smith-Darden, J., (2007). Does Traumatic Stress Mediate the Relationship between Violence and Health in Adolescents?, Pediatrics.

Papers in preparation

   

  1. ✦Perkins, S. C., Angstadt, M., Stern, E. R.,, Welsh, R. C., Liberzon, I., Taylor, S. F., Fitzgerald, K. D. Developing Nueral Substrates for Cognitive Control.

  2. ✦Perkins, S., Graham-Bermann, S., Smith-Darden, J. & Cortina, K. The Mediating Role of Disability and Cognitive Processing Deficit Between Violence Exposure and Mental Health Functioning in Incarcerated Adolescents.

  3. ✦Miller, D., Saunders, D., Hammock, A., Perkins, S., & Huerta, M. The Application of Meta-Theoretical Frameworks to Understanding Interpersonal Violence.

  4. ✦Perkins, S., Peck, S. & Eccles, J., Longitudinal Trajectories of Problem Behavior Typologies.

Presentations


  1. ✦Perkins, S. C., Angstadt, M., Stern, E. R.,, Welsh, R. C., Liberzon, I., Taylor, S. F., Fitzgerald, K. D. Developing Nueral Substrates for Cognitive Control. Abstract submitted to the Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC, November, 2008.

  2. ✦Defever, E., Perkins, S. and Rauch, S. Relationships Between Patient Characteristics, Anger, PTSD, and Comorbidity: How are They Similar and Different for Vietnam and OEF/OIF Veterans in a PTSD Clinic. To be presented at the Anxiety Treatment Annual conference.

  3. ✦King, A., Erickson, T., Giardino, N., Perkins, S., Robinson, E., & Liberzon, I. (2008) A Pilot Study of a Mind-Body Group therapy for Combat Veterans With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Presented at the Society for Biological Society, Washington, DC.

  4. ✦Yiu, L., Salski, L., Perkins, S. Smith-Darden, J. & Graham-Bermann, S. (2007) The Correlation Between Executive Functioning and Aggression. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, Washington, DC.

  5. ✦Davis, D., Perkins, S. Smith-Darden, J. & Graham-Bermann, S. (2007) Executive Functioning Deficits of Incarcerated Youth. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, Washington, DC.

  6. ✦Perkins, S. Smith-Darden, J. & Graham-Bermann, S. (2007). Disability and Cognitive Processing in Incarcerated Youth. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL.

  7. ✦Ametrano, R., Perkins, S., Smith-Darden, J., Graham-Bermann, S. (2007). Does Traumatic Stress Mediate the Relationship between Violence and Health in Adolescents? Poster symposium presented to the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, MA.

Presentations (continued)

  1. ✦Perkins, S. Asbury, A., Smith-Darden, J., Graham-Bermann, S. (2007) Maltreatment, Traumatic Violence Exposure and Academic Ability in Incarcerated Youth. Poster symposium presented to the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, MA.

  2. ✦Graham-Bermann, S. & Perkins, S. (2006). Contribution of Age at First Exposure to Intimate Partner Violence on child Adjustment. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Study, Hollywood, CA.

  3. ✦Ametrano, R., Graham - Bermann, S., Perkins, S., & Smith-Darden, J. (2006). Violence Exposure and Traumatic Stress as Predictors of Negative Health Outcomes for Incarcerated Youth. Poster presented at the International Family Violence and Child Victimization Research Conference, Portsmouth, NH.

  4. ✦Perkins, S. and Fuller H. (2005) Discussant, Development of Psychology and Mental Health Conference on Positive Psychology.

  5. ✦Perkins, S. (2005). Ecological Perspectives on the Confluence Between Disability and Maltreatment. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Social Work Research, Miami, FL.

  6. ✦Perkins, S., Eccles, J. & Peck, S. (2004, July). Desistence from Problem Behavior Across Adolescence: The role of Mental Health, Family Violence and Activity Involvement. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Honolulu, HI.

  7. ✦Perkins-Hart, S., Eccles, J. & Peck, S. (2004, April). Typologies of Problem Behaviors in Seventh Grade: Comparison of Two Clustering Approaches. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, Chicago, Il.

  8. ✦Perkins-Hart, S., Eccles, J. & Peck, S. (2004, March). Problem Behavior Typologies and Change Across Adolescence. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence, Baltimore, MD.

  9. ✦Perkins-Hart, S. (2003, June). The Moderating Effect of Schools on the Development of Violence in Children Exposed to Violence. Paper presented at the World Congress on Family Violence in Prague, Czech Republic.

  10. ✦Perkins-Hart, S. & Eccles, J. (2003, April). Typologies of Problem Behaviors in Seventh Grade and the Relation to Mental Health, Family Functioning and Schooling. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Child Development, Tampa, FL.



Presentations (continued)

  1. ✦Astor, R. Benbenishty, R., Haj-Yahia, M. Zeira, A., Perkins-Hart, S., Marachi, R. and Pitner, R., (2002, April). The Awareness of Risky Peer Group Behaviors on School Grounds as Predictors of Students’ Victimization on School grounds: Part II – Junior High Schools. Paper presented to the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA.

  2. ✦Astor, R. Benbenishty, R., Haj-Yahia, M. Zeira, A., Marachi, R., Perkins-Hart, S., and Pitner, R., (2002, April). The Awareness of Risky Peer Group Behaviors on School Grounds as Predictors of Students’ Victimization on School grounds: Part I – Elementary Schools. Paper presented to the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA.

Teaching Experience:


University of Michigan                                 Ann Arbor, Michigan

    Graduate Student Instructor                     September 2006- December 2006

Psychology 111 - Introduction to Psychology

Taught 2 discussions sections associated with lecture. Faculty: Elizabeth Weirba


University of Michigan                                 Ann Arbor, Michigan

    Graduate Student Instructor                         January 2006- April 2006

Psychology 270 - Psychopathology

Taught 2 discussions sections associated with lecture. Faculty: Patricia Deldin


University of Michigan                                 Ann Arbor, Michigan

    Instructor                             September 2003- December 2003

Ed 391 - Education Psychology - Human Development

Taught course to Social Studies and Language pre-service teachers in the undergraduate teacher education program. Course covers applications of psychological theories to classroom teaching. Faculty Supervisor: Phyllis Blumenfeld


University of Michigan                                 Ann Arbor, Michigan

    Graduate Student Instructor                     September 2002- December 2002

Psychology 111 - Introduction to Psychology

Taught 2 discussions sections associated with lecture. Faculty: Elizabeth Veniott


Northampton High School                     Northampton, Massachusetts

    Special Education Teacher                       September 1997- June 1999

Taught the Alternative Learning Program for students with diagnosed emotional and behavioral disorders.





Teaching Experience: (Cont.)


Tri-County High School                     Easthampton, Massachusetts

    Special Education Teacher                         September 1995 – August 1997

Taught Social Studies in alternative school for students in Department of Mental Health residential homes.

    

Gandara D. S. S. Residential Home                     Springfield, Massachusetts

    Educational Coordinator                    September 1992 - November 1994

Taught Social Studies and Math to adolescent boys in a Department of Social Services Residential Home.


Service:


Executive Board                         Combined Program in Education and Psychology

Member                                       Winter 2006


Peer Counseling Program                    UM Comprehensive Cancer Center

    Peer Counselor                                         2005 - present


Curriculum Committee                    Combined Program in Education and Psychology

Member                                        2003 – 2005


Executive Board                         Combined Program in Education and Psychology

Member                                        2003 – 2004


Committee on Student Parent Issues                          Provost’s Committee

Member                                                        2002 – 2003


Executive Board                    University of Michigan Children’s Center

Parent Representative                                        2001 – 2003


Michigan Student Assembly                              University of Michigan

Graduate Representative                                2001 – 2002

Curriculum Vita