Jeannie Kubeck / Hillstrom

Dr. Jean Kubeck Hillstrom received her Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Akron in 2001 and was an Associate Professor at New York City College of Technology, City University of New York (CUNY). From 2012-2017, she served as the Chair of the Social Science Department, which is one of the College's largest and most complex departments and includes the eight disciplines of anthropology, economics, geography, government, history, philosophy, psychology, and sociology. Dr. Hillstrom was deeply involved in the continued evolution of the department and led the efforts to create many new courses, resulting in the department becoming home for most of the interdisciplinary courses and liberal arts capstone courses offered at the College. Moreover, she provided the early vision and impetus for the creation of a new bachelor's degree program-Data Analytics in Economics, which has just approved by the College in 2019.

Her research interests spanned aspects of applied cognitive aging including emotion, emotion and communication, argumentativeness and aggressiveness, health education, medication adherence, job satisfaction, and training performance. Dr. Hillstrom's research has resulted in peer-reviewed articles and book chapters that have received hundreds of citations. She actively presented her work at national and international conferences, such as at the Gerontological Society of America and the John Jay International Conference on Crime and Justice in Morocco. She received two PSC CUNY Research Awards, and was given the Best Paper Award by the International Organization of Social Sciences and Behavioral Research in 2012.

Dr. Hillstrom taught five different psychology courses and three interdisciplinary courses. She was highly regarding by her students as well as other faculty members who observed her in the classroom. Outside of the classroom, she was an active mentor to more than 30 undergraduate researchers supported through the Honors Scholars, Emerging Scholars,

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CUNY Research Scholars, and National Institutes of Health's (NIH) Bridges to the Baccalaureate programs. She also mentored high school and junior high students for the New York City Science and Engineering Fair (Intel), where she also served as a judge.

To increase research opportunities in psychology for faculty and students, she developed and obtained funding, mostly Graduate Research Technology Initiative, for City Tech's first Psychology Research Laboratory. This $250,000 facility enabled faculty research and faculty/student research collaboration using state-of-the art psychophysiological and virtual reality equipment as well as the more traditional cognitive and experimental equipment.

A sampling of the many other roles that she has served at the college includes being the Assistant Director of the Honors Scholars Program, Senior Personnel for the NIH Bridges to the Baccalaureate Program, Chair of the Buildings & Grounds committee, and the college coordinator for both the Institutional Review Board and the Human Research Protection Program. She also served on a number of university-wide committees including the CUNY Psychology Discipline Council and the University Integrated Institutional Review Board.

Prof. Jean Hillstrom's Research Projects with Students from New York City College of Technology

Emerging Scholars Program Fall 2017 & Spring 2018 An Analysis of Factors Affecting Emotional Regulation and Vagal Tone in an Expressive Writing Paradigm Kevin Mei

Bridges to the Baccalaureate Program Fall 2017 & Spring 2018 The Effects of Emotion Regulation Styles on Narrative Content in an Expressive Writing Paradigm Christopher Persaud and Jordan Jean Pierre

CUNY Research Scholars Program Spring 2017 Factors Affecting Emotional Regulation and Vagal Tone in an Expressive Writing Paradigm Christina Taitt

Bridges to the Baccalaureate Program Spring 2017 Factors Affecting Emotional Regulation and Vagal Tone in an Expressive Writing Paradigm Nazish Ghulam, Natalie Gonzalez, Sehar Munawar, and Marvelous Nkrumah

CUNY Research Scholars Program Spring 2016 Benefits of Expressive Writing: Improvements in Vagal Tone over Time Cherishe Cumma

Emerging Scholars Program Spring 2016 Gender Differences in Vagal Tone Adaptation in an Expressive Writing Paradigm Ahmed Emrah

Bridges to the Baccalaureate Program Spring 2016 Gender Differences in Vagal Tone Adaptation in an Expressive Writing Paradigm Saber Venture

CUNY Research Scholars Program Spring 2015 Positive Reframing and Vagal Tone: A Variation on the Expressive Writing Paradigm Keishawna Jones

Emerging Scholars Program Spring 2015 Benefits of Expressive Writing: Improvements in Vagal Tone over Time Taylor Brown With Prof. Pa Her

CUNY Research Scholars Program Fall 2015 Benefits of Expressive Writing: Improvements in Vagal Tone Over Time Cherishe Cumma, Dana Glatzer, and Daniel Rosales With Prof. Pa Her

Emerging Scholars Program Fall 2015 Gender Differences in Vagal Tone Adaptation in an Expressive Writing Paradigm Saber Ventura, Dana Glatzer, Daniel Rosales, Cherishe Cumma With Prof. Pa Her

Emerging Scholars Program Spring 2014 Emotional Stress, Meaning-Making, and Well-Being Curtis Appiah, Cherishe Cumma, and Curtis Appiah

CUNY Research Scholars Program Fall 2014 Positive Reframing and Vagal Tone: A Variation on the Expressive Writing Paradigm Keishawna Jones

Emerging Scholars Program Fall 2014 Positive Reframing and Vagal Tone: A Variation on the Expressive Writing Cherishe Cumma and Shalamar Raimie With Prof. Pa Her

Emerging Scholars Program Spring 2013 & Fall 2013 The Effects of Positive Reframing on Emotional Stress and Well-being Eleanor Strehl With Prof. Pa Her

Emerging Scholars Program Spring 2012 Emotional Stress, Meaning-Making and Well-Being Pascal Babmatee and Karen Neroulias With Prof. Pa Her

Emerging Scholars Program Fall 2012 Emotional Stress, Meaning Making and Well-Being Harpreet Kaur and Eleanor Strehl

Emerging Scholars Program Spring 2011 Meaning, Making and Emotion Writing:

An Exploratory Study Karen Neroulias

Learning Community Spring 2010 Psycho-English: Explore Landscapes of the Self Profs. Jean Kubeck, Regina Lebowitz ENG 1101 and PSY 1101 Learning Community