Secretary-elect (1-year term followed by 2-year term as Secretary)
Dr. Christopher Harshaw
Associate Professor
University of New Orleans
Geology/Psychology Building
New Orleans, United States
https://www.uno.edu/profile/faculty/christopher_harshaw
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-harshaw-32b64b6/
Dr. Harshaw has participated in ISDP since the early days of his graduate studies, attending his first meeting in 2005, later serving as a Student Representative, and most recently, as Conference Coordinator. He earned his Ph.D. in Developmental Science at Florida International University, working under Dr. Robert Lickliter. He then completed a post-doc with Dr. Jeffrey Alberts and later worked as a Research Scientist, at Indiana University. He is now an Associate Professor at the University of New Orleans, running a lab focused on understanding mechanisms underlying the development and expression of sociality using rodent models.
Board Member (3-year term)
Kimberly Cuevas, PhD
Associate ProfessorPsychological Sciences
University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA
https://psychology.uconn.edu/person/kimberly-cuevas/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimberly-cuevas-bb35807a/
Kimberly Cuevas, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Psychological Sciences at the University of Connecticut. Her research examines the development of basic and higher-order cognitive skills from infancy through early childhood, identifying the mechanisms and contextual factors that shape them. Drawing on developmental psychobiology and neuroscience, Kimberly’s NIH-funded program of research centers on three core areas—learning and memory, executive function, and neural mirroring systems—and advances developmental EEG methods to establish functional links between neural activity and emerging cognition. A long-term ISDP member since her doctoral training at Rutgers and postdoctoral fellowship at Virginia Tech, Kimberly has received both the Weiner (2005) and Kucharski (2015) Investigator Awards. She has served the Society in multiple roles, including Secretary/Secretary-Elect (2013–2017), co-moderator of an early career professional development session during the pandemic (2020), and co-investigator on the NIH R13 grant (2016–2021) supporting student and postdoctoral travel awards. Kimberly also contributes to ISDP’s official journal, Developmental Psychobiology, as an Editorial Board Member (2020–present) and former Associate Editor (2017–2020). Kimberly is deeply committed to ISDP’s uniquely interdisciplinary, single-session conference format that fosters cross-species perspectives in developmental science and mentorship across career stages. As a Board Member, she aims to work with the Publications, Programming, and Communications Committees to address trends in the decreasing representation of cross-species research within the ISDP Community. In parallel, she plans to advance broader ongoing initiatives that promote diversity, equity, and inclusion, and to strengthen interdisciplinary mentorship opportunities extending beyond student and early-stage investigators.
Student Member Rep (2 Year Term)
Sarvenaz Oloomi
PhD Student
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA USA
Sarvenaz is a Developmental Psychology Ph.D. student at the University of Southern California working with Dr. Santiago Morales. Her research interests are in developmental neuropsychopathology. In particular, she is interested in the interactions between environmental, biological, and cultural factors that lead to different trajectories of neurocognitive and socioemotional development in children, including mental health and resilience in the face of early adversity. She currently serves as the graduate student representative for her department at the USC School of Arts and Sciences and is very passionate about student advocacy and community representation. Outside of academia, Sarvenaz enjoys singing, playing and watching basketball, and reading books by the beach.
Program Officer-Elect (1-year term followed by 2-year term as Program Co-Chair, followed by a 1-year term as Program Officer)
Julie Campbell, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
Illinois State University
https://about.illinoisstate.edu/jmcamp9/
Julie Campbell is an Associate Professor in the developmental and quantitative areas of the psychology department at Illinois State University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina Greensboro under the supervision of George Michel in 2015 and completed a pre-doctoral fellowship at the Center for Developmental Science at UNC-Chapel Hill in 2014. She teaches courses in infant, child, and adolescent development, as well as experimental research methods. Her research addresses developmental issues in hemispheric specialization, lateralization, handedness, motor development, and quantitative methods.
Julie’s involvement in ISDP began when she attended her first meeting as a graduate student in 2007. She served as a Student Representative from 2012 to 2014. In 2019, she was ISDP’s Conference Coordinator Elect and has served as the Conference Coordinator since 2020. In 2021, she was awarded ISDP’s Distinguished Service Award. Most recently, Julie has been serving as a Board Member since 2022 and has served on the awards committee as a member and the chair. Julie is passionate about the Society’s purpose to inspire research on developmental processes and enjoys being involved in the work required to achieve this goal.