Audrey Zakriski, Ph.D. 
B.S., Bucknell University; M.A., Ph.D., Duke University
After completing a postdoctoral fellowship at Brown University’s Bradley Research Center, she was appointed to the faculty of the Brown University Medical School in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, and served as the psychologist for the children’s inpatient unit at Bradley Hospital in East Providence, RI for two years.

Joined Connecticut College: 1998
Associate Professor of Psychology
Director of the Holleran Center for Community Action and Public Policy, an interdisciplinary center focused on the development of active citizenship and leadership.

Specialization: Children’s mental health, contextual assessment of child psychopathology, and childhood peer rejection and victimization.

Professor Zakriski has authored numerous empirical articles and book chapters on children’s mental health and social development. Recent publications have appeared in the American Psychological Association’s Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and have been reprinted in the Year Book of Psychiatry and Applied Mental Health (2003) and The Reference Guide to Counseling Children and Adolescents: Prevention, treatment, outcomes (2000).
 She regularly presents at regional and national conferences in her field including the Society for Research in Child Development, and has received research grants from the National Institute of Mental Health, Brown University and the Lowenstein Center for Disruptive Behavior Disorders in Durham, N.C.