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DANA CHARLES McCOY
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EDUCATION

2008 – present
PhD candidate, Psychology & Social Intervention Concentration in Quantitative Analysis New York University (NYU) Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development Department of Applied Psychology Dissertation Committee: C. Cybele Raver (Chair), Pamela Morris, Patrick Sharkey Readers: J. Lawrence Aber, Clancy Blair Major in Psychological & Brain Sciences Minors in Neuroscience and Spanish Literature & Language
HONORS, AWARDS, & FELLOWSHIPS
2011–2013 Institute of Education Sciences Predoctoral Interdisciplinary Research Training Fel owship
2011–2012 Steinhardt Dean’s Grant for Graduate Student Research, NYU (Project Title: The Relationship between Student Motivation, Parental Attitudes towards School, Economic & Health Barriers, and Student Academic Outcomes: An Exploratory Study in Ghana; Role: Co-PI with Sharon Wolf) Workshop on Quasi-Experimental Design and Analysis in Education Fellowship & Travel Award, Institute of Education Sciences and Institute for Prevention Research at Northwestern University Student Travel Award, Society for Research in Child Development Predoctoral Fellowship Development Award, NYU Department of Applied Psychology Professional Development Funding, NYU Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology Summer Fel owship, Cornell University 2008–2011 Steinhardt Founders Fellowship Award for Predoctoral Training, NYU 2005 Summer Intramural Research Training Award, National Institute of Mental Health RESEARCH & PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE
03/2010 – present
Director of Monitoring & Evaluation; Executive Board Member, World Partners
in Education, Boston, MA & Tema, Ghana
Graduate Assistant for Pamela Morris, PhD, Working toward Wellness and
Secondary Analysis of Variation in Impacts (SAVI) Head Start Center Projects,
NYU & MDRC, New York, NY
Graduate Assistant for Clancy Blair, PhD MPH, Near Infrared Spectroscopy
Project, NYU, New York, NY
Graduate Assistant for C. Cybele Raver, PhD, Chicago School Readiness Project
and Child Self-Regulation Lab, Institute of Human Development and Social
Change, NYU, New York, NY
Research and Clinical Extern for Laurie Miller Brotman, PhD, ParentCorps
Project, Institute of Prevention Science, Child Study Center, NYU Medical School, Research Coordinator for Maurizio Fava, MD, Depression Clinical and Research
Program, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard
Medical School, Boston, MA
Playspace Activity Leader & Policy Advocate, Horizons for Homeless Children,
Charlestown, MA
Activity Coordinator, Inpatient Psychiatry, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical
Center, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH
Intramural Research Training Award Summer Fellow for Susan Swedo, MD,
Pediatric and Developmental Neuropsychiatry Branch, National Institute Mental
Health, Bethesda, MD

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2012

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2012
Guest Lecturer on Emotion Regulation in Childhood for Self-Regulation (graduate level), NYU Co-Lecturer for Research Design and Methodology (graduate level), NYU Guest Lecturer on Methodological Critiques for Intermediate Quantitative Methods (graduate level), NYU Guest Lecturer on Emotion Regulation for Emotional Development in Childhood: Organization and Neurobiology (graduate level), NYU Teaching Assistant & Guest Lecturer for Research Design and Methodology (graduate level), NYU
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

American Psychological Association
Comparative and International Education Society
Society for Prevention Research
Society for Research in Child Development
Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness

PUBLICATIONS
(Note: Al publications and presentations prior to May, 2011 listed as Dana L. Charles)
In Preparation

McCoy, D. C., Wolf, S., & Godfrey, E. B. Student motivation for learning in Ghana: Relationships with
parental attitudes toward education and academic performance. In preparation.
Willner, C., Morris, P. A., McCoy, D. C., & Adam, E. Diurnal cortisol rhythms in youth exposed to family
adversity: Moderation by the serotonin transporter gene-linked polymorphic region (5-HTTLPR). In preparation.
McCoy, D. C., & Raver, C. C. Household instability and child self-regulation: Quasi-experimental links for

McCoy, D. C. Early violence exposure and self-regulatory development: An ecological systems

Published or Under Review

McCoy, D. C., Roy, A. E., & Sirkman, G. (Under review). Neighborhood crime and student perceptions of
safety as predictors of school quality: Evidence from a longitudinal study of Chicago public elementary schools.
Raver, C. C., McCoy, D. C., Lowenstein, A. E., & Pess, R. P. (Under review). Predicting individual
differences in low-income children’s executive control from early to middle childhood. Tubbs, C., & McCoy, D. C. (in press). Early childhood development: An introduction. In Wuermli, A., &
Lundberg, M. (Eds.), Economic crisis and the next generation: Protecting and promoting young people's development. Washington, DC: The World Bank.
Raver, C. C., Smith Carter, J., McCoy, D. C., Roy, A., Ursache, A., & Friedman, A. (2012). Testing models of
children’s self-regulation within educational contexts: Implications for measurement. In J. Benson (Ed.), Advances in child development and behavior (pp 245-270). Burlington, VT: Academic Press.
McCoy, D. C., Raver, C. C., Lowenstein, A. E., & Tirado-Strayer, N. (2011). Assessing self-regulation in the
classroom: Validation of the BIS-11 and the BRIEF in low-income, ethnic minority school-aged children. Early Education & Development, 22, 883-906.
McCoy, D. C., & Raver, C. C. (2011). Caregiver emotional expressiveness, child emotion regulation, and
child behavior problems among Head Start families. Social Development, 20, 741-761.
Papakostas, G. I., Charles, D., & Fava, M. (2010). Are typical starting doses of the selective serotonin
reuptake inhibitors sub-optimal? A meta-analysis of randomized, double-blind, placebo-control ed, dose-finding studies in Major Depressive Disorder. World Journal of Biological Psychiatry, 11, 300–307.
Papakostas, G., McGrath, P., Stewart, J., Charles, D., Chen, Y., Mischoulon, D., et al. (2008). Psychic and
somatic anxiety symptoms as predictors of response to fluoxetine in Major Depressive Disorder. Psychiatry Research, 161, 116–120.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

McCoy, D. C., Raver, C. C., & Zhai, F. (2012, June). Quasi-experimental estimates of the effect of
household instability on self-regulation in low-income children. Paper to be presented at the Annual Conference of the Society for Prevention Research, Washington, D.C.
Wolf, S., McCoy, D. C., Godfrey, E. B., Schwartz, B., Armstrong, C., Briggs, K., & Hwang, J. (2012, June).
Barriers to education in developing countries: Empirical evidence from a Ghanaian school sample. Poster to be presented at the Annual Conference of the Society for Prevention Research, Washington, D.C.
McCoy, D. C., Wolf, S., Godfrey, E. B., Schwartz, B., Armstrong, C., Briggs, K., & Hwang, J. (2012, April).
Student motivation, parental attitudes toward education, and academic achievement in a Ghanaian school sample. Paper to be presented at the 56th Annual Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
McCoy, D. C., Raver, C. C., Burdick, J., & Sirkman, G. (2012, February) School Neighborhood Crime and
Selective Attention to Emotional Stimuli: Findings from a Low-Income, Urban, Black and Latino
Sample. In D. C. McCoy & C. C. Raver (Chairs), Exploring Multi-Level Protective Factors for Minority
Children Exposed to Emotionally and Physically Unsafe School Environments. Symposium presented
at the Themed Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development on Positive Minority

Friedman, A., Raver, C. C., Morris, P., Jones, S., & McCoy, D. C. (2011, June). Peer composition, teacher
stress, and changes in the classroom environment during the Head Start Year. Poster presented at the 19th Annual Meeting of the Society for Prevention Research, Washington, DC.
Pess, R. A., Tirado-Strayer, N., McCoy, D. C., & Raver, C. C. (2011, June). Neighborhood crime as a
moderator of the relationship between poverty-related risk and behavior problems in kindergarten aged, low-income, ethnic minority children. Poster presented at the 19th Annual Meeting of the Society for Prevention Research, Washington, DC.
Charles, D. L., Kim, H. Y., & Raver, C. C. (2011, April). The role of family and classroom climate in Head
Start children’s self-regulatory development. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Montreal, Quebec.
Charles, D. L., Raver, C. C., & Tirado-Strayer, N. (2011, April). Children’s internalizing symptoms and
executive function: Exploring a non-linear relationship in Head Start preschoolers. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Montreal, Quebec.
Charles, D. L., Armstrong, C. M., Schwartz, B. E., Hwang, J. T., Briggs, K. J., & World Partners in Education
(2011, April). Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation for learning, school attendance, and academic performance in Ghanaian schoolchildren. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Montreal, Quebec.
Pess, R., Raver, C. C., Charles, D. L., & Tirado-Strayer, N. (2011, April). Spatial perspectives on the
prevalence of behavior problems of low-income children entering kindergarten. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Montreal, Quebec.
Raver, C. C., Charles, D. L., Lowenstein, A. E., & Pess, R. (2011, April). Recent and chronic poverty at
school and family levels as predictors of children’s executive functioning in 3rd grade. In L. S. Pagani (Chair), Early contexts and characteristics, executive functions, and the road to academic success. Symposium conducted at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Montreal, Quebec.
Tirado-Strayer, N., Charles, D. L., & Raver, C. C. (2011, April). Crime as a moderator of the relationship
between poverty and young children’s externalizing behavior. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Montreal, Quebec.
Charles, D. L., Raver, C. C., Lowenstein, A. E., & Tirado-Strayer, N. (2010, September). Assessing molar
self-regulation in the classroom: Validation of a composite measure in low-income, ethnic minority students. Poster presented at the 13th Annual International Institute on Developmental Science Conference, New York, NY.
Charles, D. L., Raver, C. C., Jones, S. M., Li-Grining, C., & Zhai, F. (2010, June). Family and classroom
predictors of Head Start preschoolers’ emotion regulation and behavioral outcomes. Paper presented at Head Start’s 10th National Research Conference, Washington, DC. Zhai, F. Z., Raver, C. C., Charles, D. L., Pess, R. A., & Tirado-Strayer, N. (2010, March). Can classroom-
based interventions improve Head Start children’s subsequent school experiences? Evidence from a cluster-randomized control ed trial. Paper presented at the 3rd Annual Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness Conference, Washington, DC.
Charles, D. L. & Raver, C. C. (2009, May). The relationship between family emotional expressiveness,
child emotion regulation, and child behavior problems. Paper presented at the 9th Annual Cross-University Collaborative Mentoring Conference, New York, NY.
Iosifescu, D. V., Jensen, J. E., Charles, D., Medeiros, C. L., Nierenberg, A. A., Fava, M., & Renshaw, P. F.
(2008, May). The antidepressant effect of the SSRI escitalopram is associated with increases in GABA and in bioenergetic metabolism. Poster presented at the Society of Biological Psychiatry's Annual Scientific Program and Convention, Washington, DC.
Iosifescu, D. V., Jensen, J. E., Nierenberg, A. A., Charles, D., Bolo, N. R., Fava, M., & Renshaw, P. F. (2007,
May). Mitochondrial function in the anterior cingulate and treatment response in MDD. Paper presented at the American Psychiatric Association 160th Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA.
Denninger, J. W., Iosifescu, D. V., Charles, D., Homberger, C., Wu, S. L., Alpert, J. E., & Fava, M. (2007,
May). Frontal EEG predicts clinical response to escitalopram treatment in Major Depressive Disorder. Poster presented at the Society of Biological Psychiatry's Annual Scientific Program and Convention, San Diego, CA.
Buhle, J., Charles, D., Pekar, M., Grant, P., Swedo, S. E., Snider, S., & Casey, B. J. (2006, April). Early
symptom severity in Sydenham Chorea predicts attentional functioning years later. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
Charles, D., Grant, P., & Swedo, S. (2005, August). The long-term outcome of Sydenham’s Chorea. Poster
presented at The National Institutes of Health Summer Research Poster Day, Bethesda, MD.

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