Dr. Travis Hodges is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts. Travis studies sex differences in stress, as well as how stress affects cognitive biases. He completed his PhD at Brock University and was then a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Laboratory of Behavioural Neuroendocrinology of Dr. Liisa Galea at the University of British Columbia. His research there investigated the sex-specific and age-specific biological mechanisms involved in negative cognitive bias, a treatment-resistant symptom of major depressive disorder. The goal of his research was to discover novel precision therapeutics for this cognitive symptom.

Travis is a Faculty Co-Lead of WHRC and helps to organizes the Trainee Research Presentation Series. He is an advocate for EDI and is featured in the Women’s Health Blog and in a Nature article by Virginia Gwen discussing diversity in academia.

Contact Travis on Twitter @TravisEHodges