Stacey N. Doan, Ph.D.
Norwood and Frances Berger Professor of Psychology, Business and Society
Director, Berger Institute for Individual and Social Development
Department of Psychological Science, Claremont McKenna College
Dr. Stacey N. Doan is the Norwood and Frances Berger Professor of Psychology, Business, and Society at Claremont McKenna College and Director of the Berger Institute for Individual and Social Development. Her research examines how social relationships, stress, and emotions shape physical health and psychological well-being across development, with a particular focus on resilience among children, adolescents, and families.
Trained at Cornell University, she has spent over two decades studying resilience, emotion, and psychological and physiological adaptation across development with particular attention to how culture, race, and socioeconomic context shape the stress response and its long-term health consequences. Her work spans basic science and intervention, from biomarker methodology to randomized controlled trials.
She has published over 100 articles in leading journals across developmental science, psychology, and health. Her work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and multiple private foundations including the Ho Family Global FOundation, the Jumpstart Foundation and the Spencer Foundation.She holds adjunct appointments at the Beckman Research Institute at City of Hope National Medical Center and is graduate affiliated faculty at Claremont Graduate University.
Education
2010
Ph.D., Developmental Psychology
Cornell University
2007
M.A., Human Development
Cornell University
2002
B.A., Psychology with Honors
Carleton College
Selected Awards & Honors
2022
Presidential Merit Award
Claremont McKenna College
2021
Faculty Scholarship Award
Claremont McKenna College
2018
Early Career Achievement Award
American Psychological Association
2017
Early Career Award
Western Psychological Association
2017
Asian Caucus Early Career Award
Society for Research on Child Development
2016
Exemplary Diversity Scholar
National Center for Institutional Diversity
Selected Grants
2026 – 2029
Spencer Foundation
Race-based peer victimization and adolescent academic, psychological, and sleep functioning. Role: mPI.
2022 – 2027
NIH R01-MH128729-01 · Project STRIVE
STudents RIsing aboVE: Offsetting the health and mental health costs of resilience. Role: Co-Investigator.
2023 – 2026
Ho Family Foundation
Project PRISM: Promoting resilience by improving student mindfulness. Role: PI
2021 – 2025
National Science Foundation BCS 2043078
Aggression as biological adaptation: Investigating development in stressful contexts. Role: PI.
2020 – 2022
National Science Foundation RAPID BCS 2027694
The COVID-19 pandemic and changes in the stress response: Identifying risk and resilience. Role: PI.
2019 – 2022
NIH NICHD R03-HD097623
Children's academic competence in contexts of risk: Longitudinal relations with sleep and physical health. Role: mPI.
2016 – 2019
NIH NIDA R21-DA04153101
Rescuing affective and cognitive processes to influence smoking prevention. Role: mPI.