Meet Our Faculty
Meet the Chair
Stacey Zaremba, PhD
Professor of Psychology
Stacey Zaremba (she, her, hers) received a doctorate in experimental psychology from Fordham University and a bachelor’s degree in psychology from City University of New York. Zaremba is a professor of psychology and chair of the psychology department at Moravian University. She was the founder of Moravian’s Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies minor. Zaremba teaches a variety of classes, including Applied Behavior Analysis, Psychology of Women, Gender and Sexuality, Gender Development, Psychology of Diversity, Psychology of Addictions, Psychology of Eating, and Psychology of Activism.
Zaremba’s research program involves changing children’s attitudes using a reading circle intervention. Biases and stereotypes in children have been reduced by exposing children to multicultural children’s books focusing on stories about tolerance and respecting diversity. Zaremba is currently collaborating with Dr. Sarah Johnson and a team of research students to minimize gender bias attitudes related to science. The research involves conducting reading circles with boys and girls from local elementary schools to address girls’ lesser interest in participation in science.
Zaremba received the Woman of the Year Award from AAUW of Bethlehem, the YWCA’s Volunteer of the Year Award and Racial Justice Award, and the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Volunteer Award. She received the Moravian University Service Award several times and was the recipient of the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching.
Zaremba served as faculty advisor to Moravian’s AAUW Student Affiliate group, which was recognized as the Outstanding Club of the Year and received an award for the Best Educational Program for our Take Back the Night event. She received the DEI Club Advisor of the Year award in 2023 and is currently co-advising the new Gender Equity student group.
Psychology Faculty
Robert Brill, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychology
Robert Brill received his PhD in industrial/organizational psychology from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and his BA in psychology and management at LaSalle University. He is a member of the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology (SIOP) and the Association for Psychological Science (APS), and his expertise and primary teaching interests are in work and sports psychology. Brill serves as Moravian’s faculty athletic representative to the NCAA and is the current director of Moravian’s RISE Teamwork & Leadership Program.
Brill’s current research interests are in the areas of performance feedback and predictors of and interventions to promote team effectiveness. He has conducted training in the areas of communication, stress management, and employee well-being at a variety of organizations, served as a co-principal investigator on federal and state grants exploring best practices in hiring and retaining persons with disabilities, and workforce development in the financial industry, respectively. As a service-learning project with Community Services for Children, Brill and his students implemented a biannual multi-rater feedback system as the initial component of a two-year leadership development program.
A Lindback Award winner for excellence in teaching, Brill has also been recognized three times with Moravian’s Award for Outstanding Service to the College Community. In 2023, he was honored with the President’s Award for his work in developing, implementing, and directing Moravian’s RISE Program. Brill has also been recognized by his alma mater with the LaSalle psychology department’s Distinguished Alumni Award.
Dana S. Dunn, PhD
Professor of Psychology
Dana S. Dunn is a professor of psychology and the director of Academic Assessment at Moravian University. He earned his PhD in experimental social psychology from the University of Virginia and his BA in psychology from Carnegie Mellon University. Dunn writes about the social psychology of disability and the teaching of psychology. He is the author or editor of more than 40 books and more than 200 articles, chapters, and book reviews. Besides serving as the Inaugural Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford Bibliographies (OB): Psychology, he is the editor of the journal Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology. His most recent book is an edited volume with Michael L. Wehmeyer, The Positive Psychology of Personal Factors: Implications for Understanding Disability, which was published in January 2022. Dunn recently coedited the second edition of the Oxford Handbook of Positive Psychology and Disability (with Michael Wehmeyer, Andrews, and Ayers, in press). The 13th edition of Psychology Applied to Modern Life: Human Adjustment in the 21st Century (coauthored with Wayne Weiten and Elizabeth Yost Hammer) appeared in 2023.
In 2013, Dunn accepted the Charles L. Brewer Award for Distinguished Teaching from the American Psychological Foundation. He received Rehabilitation Psychology’s Roger G. Barker Distinguished Research Contribution Award in February 2022. A Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA Divisions 1, 2, 8, and 22), the Association for Psychological Science (APS), and the Eastern Psychological Association (EPA), Dunn is former president of the Society for the Teaching of Psychology (APA Division 2), Rehabilitation Psychology (APA Division 22), and the EPA. He is currently working on three book projects, which were started during his spring 2024 sabbatical leave.
Dunn regularly teaches Human Adjustment (PSYC 105), Personality (PSYC 361), and the Seminar in Social/Personality Psychology (PSYC 375), among other courses.
Sarah Johnson, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
Sarah Johnson received her PhD in cognitive psychology with a concentration in neuroscience from Temple University and her BA in psychology from Bucknell University. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Oregon. Johnson is currently the director of Moravian’s Student Opportunities for Academic Research (SOAR) program, providing undergraduate students from all disciplines with opportunities to participate in and present research. She is also the faculty advisor to the Moravian student club for Undergraduate Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activities (URSCA). She teaches courses in research methods and statistics, cognitive psychology, neuroscience, psychology of music, psychology of language, and first-year writing.
Johnson’s research focuses on semantic memory (i.e., our memory for general knowledge), including language, music, and stereotypes. Her recent work explores gender stereotypes, particularly gender-science bias. Working with Dr. Stacey Zaremba and psychology-student researchers, their team studies how reading circles can change children’s gender-science biases and attitudes. At Moravian, Johnson has mentored more than 35 students on independent research projects, 10 students who successfully completed and defended Honors theses, and 15 students in paid summer research fellowships through the SOAR program. Students under her guidance have presented their work at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research, the Psychonomic Society’s annual meeting, and the Eastern Psychological Association Annual Meeting, as well as at Moravian’s Scholarship and Creative Endeavors Day.
Magdalena Leszko, PhD
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Magdalena Leszko earned her master’s in clinical psychology from Casimir the Great University in Poland. She came to the United States as a Fulbright scholar, completed her doctorate in gerontology at the University of Kansas, and spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University. Additionally, she completed postgraduate studies in psycho-oncology. Leszko’s research focuses on building the clinical groundwork for low-cost interventions for individuals with neurocognitive disorders and their caregivers. Her work has examined objective and subjective factors that can individually and interactively predict caregiver burden. She is also interested in understanding health behaviors and health disparities across the lifespan. Leszko has experience teaching various undergraduate and graduate-level courses, including Health Psychology, Lifespan Developmental Psychology, Adolescent Development and Learning, Death and Dying, and Mental Health and Aging.
Logan Stano, LPC
Assistant Professor of Practice in Counseling Psychology
Logan Stano received a BA from Moravian College and a master’s in clinical counseling from Chestnut Hill College. He is licensed as a professional counselor in the state of Pennsylvania. Stano has experience working in both community mental health and private practice settings with diverse populations and diagnoses. His recent clinical work has primarily focused on trauma treatment, child and adolescent therapy, and sport-specific performance issues. Additionally, he is a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional and holds board certification from the American Board of Sport Psychology.
Stano is presently working with Dr. Roland Carlstedt, who is the chair of the American Board of Sport Psychology and a research associate in psychology at Harvard Medical School and McLean Hospital. They are collaborating on research investigating the relationship between psychophysiological mediated heart rate variability responses and critical moment performance in athletes, as well as psychophysiology and biomarker-guided psychotherapy. Stano has experience teaching at both the graduate and undergraduate levels as an adjunct faculty member in the clinical counseling program and the psychology department at Moravian University.