Curriculum
Contact: Josita Maouene
Psychology Department
Grand Valley State University
1, Campus Dr
AuSable Hall, room 2105
Allendale, MI, 4940
Citizenship: Switzerland
Office Phone: 616-331-3369
Cell Phone: 812-219-9922
e-mail: maouenej@gvsu.edu
Training and Professional History
Education
Ph.D. University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, May, 2002
Psychology
Academic and Professional Experience
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August 1st 2009–present
Assistant Professor in Psychology, specialized in cognitive development (psycholinguistics)
Courses taught in the past:
PSY101: introductory psychology
PSY 364 Life span development
Courses being taught:
PSY 300 Research Methods
PSY 301 Child Development
• Spring 2007-July 2009
Research Associate in the Cognitive Development Laboratory of Prof. Linda Smith, at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA.
•Spring 2005 to Fall 2007
Adjunct lecturer at Indiana University
PY315 : Developmental psychology
•Sep.2003- Dec. 2004
Post-doc on a Swiss Fellowship in the Cognitive Development Laboratory of Prof. Linda Smith, at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA
• 1995-2003
Senior Assistant: Management of the Swiss Federal Scholarship program for international post-graduate students
University of Lausanne, Division of Social affairs.
Honors and Awards
2003: Prize of the faculty of Social Sciences for the Ph.D. thesis, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
2010: Research Grant-in Award winner attributed by the Center of Scholarly and Creative Excellence, GVSU, MI, for the research project “Basic emotions and early-learned verbs”.
2010-2011: Professional Development award attributed by the Robert and Mary Pew Faculty Teaching and Learning Center for a project for the Liberal Education Academy 2010-2011:” Evaluating a Creative Thinking Technique Implementation in the Classroom”.
Professional Memberships
- Midwestern Psychological Association (MPA) since 2011
- Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) since 2005
Professional services (Ad-Hoc Reviewing)
Guest Editor
- Cognition Brain Behavior (2011) Special issue on development and embodiment. Editorial
- Guest editors: Josita Maouene, Thea Ionescu.
Journal
- Developmental psychology (July 2012)
- Cognition, Brain, Behavior, review of 8 articles (May to December 2011)
- Journal of child Language (March and December, 2011)
- New ideas in psychology (July, 2011)
- Cognition Brain Behavior. Review of one article in a special issue on the development of categorization. Guest editors: Thea Ionuescu, Robert L. Goldstone (2007)
Conference abstracts
• International Conference on Development and Learning (2006) review of 3 articles
• Cognitive Science (2006) review of one article
Textbook review
• Siegler, DeLoache, Eisenberg, HOW CHILDREN DEVELOP 3rd edition, Worth Publishers (2008)
Conferences
- Midwestern Pyschological Conference
- Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD)
- Cognitive Science Society
- International Conference on development and Learning (ICDL)
- International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC)
Obtained Research Funding
2003
Scholarship from the Rectorate of the University of Lausanne, 2003-2004, 15’000 CHF
2009
Travel grant from the Center of Scholarly and Creative Excellence, GVSU, MI, for the ISIS conference in Baltimore, March 2010
2010
1) Travel grant from the Center for Learning and Development, GVSU, MI, for the CSDL conference in San Diego, September 2010
2) Travel grant from the Center of Scholarly and Creative Excellence, GVSU, MI, for the ICDL conference in Ann Arbor, August 2010
2011
1) Travel grant from the Center of Scholarly and Creative Excellence, GVSU, MI, for the SRCD conference in Montreal, April 2011
2) Travel grants for three research assistants from the APEF, GVSU, MI, for the SRCD conference in Montreal, April 2011
2012
1) Travel grant from the Center of Scholarly and Creative Excellence, GVSU, MI, for the MPA conference in Chicago, April 2012
2) Travel grants for three research assistants from the APEF, GVSU, MI, for the MPA conference in Chicago, April 2012
3) Travel grant for two research assistants from the Academic Conference Fund MPA conference in Chicago, April 2012
4) Seed Grant from the University of Michigan Dearborn, for an fMRI project on the neural correlates of body parts and verbs in adults, PI Nitya Sethuraman, 6’000$, March 16, 2012
