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Trina Brown

Liberal arts professor

Education

  • Ph.D., psychology, Emory University 
  • M.A., psychology, Emory University 
  • B.A., psychology, Spelman College

Credentials

  • Professor, psychology, Sept. 2006–present
    Collaborative project on creative resilience, Sept. 2006–present
    Chair, Academic Integrity Council, Sept. 2006–present, Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, GA
    • Wrote proposal and executed the development of a new Faculty Council.
    • Partnering with colleagues in Liberal Arts to study resilience in SCAD students for use as a retention tool.
    • Chair since 2010.
  • Instructor, Aug. 2001–May 2006, Southside Comprehensive High School, Atlanta, GA
    • Self-contained classroom teacher for emotionally and behaviorally disturbed and learning disabled students in grades 9-12.
    • Developed and implemented curriculum and lesson plans and assessed student progress in social science, language arts, mathematics, and science to a broad range of academic levels and learning styles.
    • Designed and implemented behavior intervention plans.
    • Conducted annual review for Individualized Education Plans including achievement testing and behavior assessments.
  • Instructor, Aug. 1999–May 2001, Spelman College, Atlanta, GA
    • Instructor for several lab courses including Statistics for the Social Sciences and Introduction to Psychology.
  • Instructor, Aug. 1996–May 2000, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
    • Participated in the Teaching Assistant Training and Teaching Opportunity (TATTO).
    • Teaching assistant for several courses including Statistics for the Social Sciences and Introductory Psychobiology and Cognition.
    • Instructor for Research Methods in Psychology.

Publications and presentations

  • Brown, T. A. and Gibson-Wallace, B. "Collective Neuroticism: Consequences and Manifestations of Communal Trauma." In I. Scott (Ed.), Crimes Against Humanity in the Land of the Free: Can a Truth and Reconciliation Process Heal Racial Conflict in America? (43–71). Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger-ABC-CLIO, 2014.
  • Fivush, R., Hazzard, A., Sales, J., Sarfati, D., and Brown, T. "Creating Coherence Out of Chaos? Children's Narratives of Emotionally Positive and Negative Events." Applied Cognitive Psychology, 17, 1-19, 2003.
  • Brown, T. A., Sarfarti, D., McDermott, J., Fivush, R. and Hazzard, A. "Children's Recollection of Traumatic and Non-Traumatic Events." Paper presented at the Meeting of the Society for Research in Memory and Cognition (SARMAC), Boulder, CO, July 1999.
  • "Narrative and Elaborative Maternal Reminiscing Styles." Poster presented at the Fifteenth Biennial Conference on Human Development, Mobile, AL, March 1998.
  • Fernandez, I., Bhandari, S. and Brown T. A. "Maternal Reminiscing Style and Attachment." Poster presentation at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), Washington, D.C., April, 1997.