Opportunities for Graduate Study

Graduate Programs

Interested in pursuing graduate training in the psychology of aesthetics, creativity, and the arts? Here’s an incomplete and ever-growing list of scholars (arranged geographically) who work at programs that train graduate students.

Prospective students should contact the researchers directly to see if they are admitting students for the coming year.

USA

Arizona
Arkansas
California
Connecticut
Colorado
  • Sue Hyeon Paek, University of Northern Colorado (MA and PhD programs)
Florida
  • Haiying Long, School of Education and Human Development, Florida International University
Georgia
  • Anna Abraham, Torrance Center for Creativity and Talent Development, University of Georgia
Kansas
Maryland
Massachusetts
  • Marie Forgeard, William James College (Clinical PsyD program)
Nebraska
New Jersey
New York
  • Orin Davis, SUNY Buffalo State College, MS program in Creativity and Change Leadership
  • Jennifer Drake, Brooklyn College, CUNY
  • Aaron Kozbelt, Brooklyn College, CUNY
  • Nils Myszkowski, Pace University (MA, PsyD, MSEd, & PhD programs)
  • Weihua Ni, Pace University (MA, PsyD, MSEd, & PhD programs)
North Carolina
  • Dale Cohen, University of North Carolina at Wilmington
  • Paul Silvia, University of North Carolina at Greensboro (MA & PhD programs)
Ohio
  • Sandra Russ, Case Western Reserve University
Pennsylvania
Texas
  • Selcuk Acar, Department of Educational Psychology, University of North Texas
  • Russell Eisenman, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Virginia
  • Thalia Goldstein, George Mason University
  • Alexander McKay, School of Business, Virginia Commonwealth University

 

International Scholars

Austria
Belgium
  • Baptiste Barbot, Catholic University of Louvain (UCLouvain)
Canada
  • Liane Gabora, University of British Columbia
  • Jessica Strong, University of Prince Edward Island
Germany
  • Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt am Main
    • Edward Vessel, Fredrik UllĂ©n, Melanie Wald-Fuhrmann
    • does not itself grant PhDs but individual arrangements are made with neighboring institutions
Israel
  • Yoed Kenett, Faculty of Industrial Engineering & Management, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
  • Hod Orkibi, School of Creative Arts Therapies, University of Haifa, Israel
New Zealand
Switzerland
UK
  • Rebecca Chamberlain, Goldsmiths, University of London (MSc, Psychology of the Arts, Neuroaesthetics and Creativity)
  • Helen Clegg, University of Buckingham (MSc, Psychology of Creativity and Performance Expertise; PhD options available)
  • Genevieve Cseh, Buckinghamshire New University
  • Philip Fine, University of Buckingham (MSc, Psychology of Creativity and Performance Expertise; PhD options available)
  • Kathryn Friedlander, University of Buckingham (MSc, Psychology of Creativity and Performance Expertise; PhD options available)
  • Gillian Hill, University of Buckingham (MSc, Psychology of Creativity and Performance Expertise; PhD options available)
  • Karl Jeffries, University of Central Lancashire (MA by research, MPhil or PhD options available for creativity studies)
  • Guido Orgs, Goldsmiths, University of London (MSc, Psychology of the Arts, Neuroaesthetics and Creativity)
  • Wendy Ross, London Metropolitan University
  • Paul Sowden, Department of Psychology, University of Winchester (PhD)
  • University of Buckingham (MSc, Psychology of Creativity and Performance Expertise; PhD options available)