Vasiliki Georgoulas-Sherry

Dr. Vasiliki Georgoulas-Sherry is the Psychology Faculty Advisor for the Department of Humanistic Psychology. Her work and research interests focus on resilience and recovery from trauma, disaster behavioral health, positive psychology, injury and violence, public safety including its tenets of criminal justice, traffic safety, public health, corrections, and law, justice, and order, and has published numerous papers in these fields. She is currently the Director of the Public Safety Policy and Research Center (PSPRC) and the Director for the Criminal Justice Research & Statistics Center, the Washington State's Statistical Analysis Center. She also has a broad and unique range of teaching experience, including civilian, military, and inmate populations working as an adjunct professor at Mercy College, University of Maryland Global Campus, and Southern New Hampshire University. Dr. Georgoulas-Sherry received her PhD in Cognitive Psychology and her dissertation focused on the impact of resilience and grit on deductive and inductive reasoning following exposure to adverse environments.