Jessica Lynne Holt
310 Car-Mol Dr.,
Apt. 5
Johnson City, TN 37601
(423)773-2549
holtjl@gmail.com
Education:
- East Tennessee
State University,
Johnson City,
TN. Bachelor of Science, May 2003. Double Major: Criminal Justice/Criminology and
Psychology.
- East Tennessee
State University,
Johnson City, TN.
Master of Arts, May 2005. Criminal Justice/Criminology.
Thesis Title: Intimate
Violence: The Effects of Family,
Threatened Egotism, and Reciprocity; defended March 2005.
- East Tennessee
State University,
Johnson City,
TN. Working towards Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology, Fall 2005 to
present.
Research:
- Master’s
Thesis: Intimate Violence: The
Effects of Family, Threatened Egotism, and Reciprocity, Fall
2004-Spring 2005.
- Project
Manager, Applied Psychology Lab (APL), Fall 2005-present. Projects
include:
- Intimate
violence, self-esteem, and gender
- Differing
opinions on the insanity defense
- Assessment
of the Ten-Item Personality Inventory (TIPI), with Fran Chumney and
Rebecca Brooks.
Experience:
- Graduate
Assistant
- Department
of Criminal Justice/Criminology, 2003-2005. Supervisor Marian H. Whitson,
PhD.
- Department
of Psychology, 2005-present. Supervisor Chris S. Dula, PhD.
Presentations and
Publications:
- Whitson,
M. H. & Holt, J. L. (2004, November). Growing trends of violence among female college students. Paper
presented at the Annual Conference of the American Society of Criminology,
Nashville, TN.
- Holt,
J. L. & Gillespie, F. W. (submitted for publication). The effects of
family, threatened egoism, and reciprocity on intimate violence. Submitted
to Aggressive Behavior, May
2005.
- Holt, J. L. (n.d.).
Intimate violence: The effects of family, threatened egotism, and
reciprocity. Poster
accepted for presentation at the Annual Conference of the American Psychological
Association, New Orleans,
LA.
Academic
Awards/Recognition:
- Dean’s
List
- Outstanding
Graduate Student in Criminal Justice/Criminology, Spring 2005
- Thesis
nominated for Outstanding Graduate Research in Social Sciences/Education,
Spring 2005