Titles

• Associate Professor, College of Education, University of Oregon

Biography

Jenefer Husman received a doctoral degree in Educational Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin, in 1998. She served as an Assistant Professor at the University of Alabama from 1998 to 2002, when she moved to Arizona State University. In 2008 she was promoted by ASU to Associate Professor and in 2016 she went to the University of Oregon. Husman has been a guest editor of Educational Psychology Review, has served on editorial board for top educational research journals, currently sits on the editorial board of Learning and Instruction. In 2006 she was awarded the U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER grant award and received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from the President of the United States. She has conducted and advised on educational research projects and grants in both the public and private sectors, and served as an external reviewer for doctoral dissertations outside the U.S. She publishes regularly in peer-reviewed journals and books, and has held both elected and appointed offices in the American Psychological Association (APA). She was a founding member and first President of the Southwest Consortium for Innovative Psychology in Education. She served as the elected Co-Coordinator of the Motivation Special Interest Group of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction.

Education

• PhD, Educational Psychology, The University of Texas-Austin, 1998
• MA, Cognition, Learning and Instruction, The University of Texas-Austin, 1996
• BS, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington, 1992