Dr. Zenzi Griffin

Biography

Zenzi M. Griffin is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. She earned her Bachelor's degree in Psychology from Michigan State University in 1993 and her PhD in Cognitive Psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1998, with a minor in Linguistics. Before joining the University of Texas at Austin in 2008, Dr. Griffin was an Assistant Professor in Psychology at Stanford University and became an Associate Professor in 2005 at Georgia Tech. Her research primarily focuses on the psychological processes involved in language production, specifically the planning of words and sentence structures, and how these elements affect fluency. Currently, she is conducting projects related to the learning and retrieval of personal names and is involved in collaborations and publications that explore bilingualism in children. She is passionate about advising students in language production and co-advising those with varied interests in psychology and related fields.

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