Savannah Girod, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Human Development and Family Sciences, Texas Tech University
(2023-25)
Dr. Girod served as a pre-doctoral fellow studying with Drs. Erika Lunkenheimer and Hannah Schreier. Her research focused on maternal sensitivity and behavior, infant growth and development, maltreatment history, and mother-child RSA synchrony and behavior coregulation.
She is currently an assistant Professor with the Department of Human Development and Family Sciences, Texas Tech University. In addition to earning an M.S. and Ph.D. in Psychology from Penn State University, she holds a B.S. in Psychology from Stevenson University.
Education
T32 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Penn State University
Ph.D., Human Development and Family Studies, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
M.S., Human Development and Family Studies, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
B.S., Psychology, Stevenson University
Research Interests
maternal sensitivity and behavior | infant growth and development | maltreatment history | mother-child RSA synchrony and behavior coregulation