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Daniel Hartman (Ph.D., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2025) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at Â鶹¹ú²úAV. His research sits at the intersection of health and sport communication, testing theory-driven messages to reduce youth risk behaviors in the context of concussions to sports gambling. His work has been featured in Communication & Sport and Health Communication. As a CSSR Grant Mentorship fellow, he is providing dedicated research support focusing on the psychological mechanisms underlying sports gambling risk perception and message design. His current study experimentally tests how framing sports betting outcomes as chance versus skill—and highlighting financial versus health harms—shapes risk perception, reactance, and behavioral intentions among young adult bettors.

Dr. Michael Katz is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Â鶹¹ú²úAV. His research focuses on psychotherapy processes, particularly the measurement of therapist technique use and patients' experiences of crying in therapy. During his fellowship, he will develop an extramural grant proposal that expands an ongoing pilot study examining how profiles of therapist techniques relate to patients' crying experiences in psychotherapy across a larger and more diverse sample.

Dr. Chenxi Luo is an Assistant Professor of History in the Department of History, Anthropology, and Philosophy. Her research focuses on the history of slavery in the Qing dynasty, China’s last dynasty. During her fellowship she will further develop her book manuscript on lived experiences of enslaved men and women, while expanding the theoretical framework of global slavery by centering Qing China in the world history of servitude and dependency.

Dr. Vy Nguyen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences. Her research focuses on how social status and identity can predict how individuals perceive and interact with people outside of their social group. During her fellowship, she will examine how zero-sum beliefs — the perception that another's gains is our group's loss — may hinder coalitions between Black and Latino Americans.