- Department of Psychology; Clinical Psychology
- Email: edt29@uri.edu
Major Professor: Nicole H. Weiss, Ph.D.
Lab: STRESS Lab
Biography
Emmanuel is a fifth year student in the Clinical Psychology Ph.D. program at the University of Rhode Island, with a focus in Multicultural Psychology. Prior to starting graduate school at URI, Emmanuel was awarded a B.A. in Psychology at Georgetown University and worked as a post-baccalaureate research assistant at the Child Study Center through the Virginia Tech Post-Baccalaureate Research and Education Program (VT-PREP). He received his M.A. in psychology from the University of Rhode Island in 2021.
Research
Emmanuel’s research identifies culturally-informed risk and protective factors for the development and maintenance of co-morbid trauma-related psychopathology (e.g., depression and posttraumatic stress disorder) and alcohol use in racially marginalized communities, including the roles of racial stressors, ethnic identity, and religious coping. Emmanuel was awarded an F31 from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to use ecological momentary assessment to examine the real-time associations among depression, racial stress and symptoms, and alcohol use in Black adults in the community.