Contact: fossumj@spu.edu

Assistant Professor of Psychology

I'm thrilled to be back at Seattle Pacific University, teaching statistics courses to psychology majors along with teaching and advising in the MS in Research Psychology program. I graduated from SPU with a B.A. in Psychology and a B.S. in Applied Mathematics in 2019.

My graduate work was done at the University of California, Los Angeles. I was in the Department of Psychology — Quantitative Area, advised by Dr. Amanda K. Montoya. I received my PhD from UCLA in 2023, and my MA in 2020. My research focuses on statistical power analysis and how it is determined in moderation, mediation, and moderated mediation models. In addition, I research and promote open science practices.