Charissa Cheah, PhD

Research

Professional Consultants: Charissa Cheah

Charissa Cheah, Ph.D. President Society for Research on Adolescence CHARISSA S. L. CHEAH, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology and Asian Studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. As a cultural developmental scientist, Dr. Cheah utilizes mixed-method approaches to explore how individual characteristics, relationships, socialization agents, and contexts interact to influence the social-emotional, mental, and physical health of AANHPI and Muslim American families. Dr. Cheah currently serves as the President of the Society for Research on Adolescence, and also as a Fellow of several leading research bodies nationally and globally. Dr. Cheah received a Fulbright Research Fellowship to Italy, a Young Scholar Award from the Foundation for Child Development’s Changing Faces of America’s Children program, and a Visiting Scientist Fellowship from the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey. She is also a recipient of the University System of Maryland Board of Regents Faculty Award for Excellence in Scholarship or Research.