Curriculum Vitae

CURRICULUM VITAE

Charisse L’Pree Corsbie-Massay
University of Southern California
3620 S McClintock Ave; SGM 501
Los Angeles, CA 90089-1061
914.672.4002
charisse.corsbiemassay@usc.edu
http://www.themediamademecrazy.com



Education


Ph.D., Social Psychology, College of Letters Arts and Sciences, University of Southern California. Expected – May 2011.

Emphasis on Youth Psychology and Television.


M.A., Critical Studies, School of Cinema-Television, University of Southern California. 2006.

Emphasis on Television, Mass Media and Youth Culture.


B.S., Brain and Cognitive Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 2003.

B.S., Humanities: Comparative Media Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 2003.

Employment


Instructor, Mentor, McNair Summer Research Institute (SRI) (2008, 2009), Graduate School, USC.

Sponsored by the USC Office of Undergraduate Programs and US Department of Education (DOE), this program offered research training and graduate school preparation to students of color and first-generation college students; Position involved advising students regarding research projects, papers, and graduate school applications, mentoring students’ research projects, and conducting weekly classes regarding research methods, academic writing, and professionalism.


Publication Editor, USC McNair Scholar Citations Journal (2009), Graduate School, USC.

Research Positions


Graduate Research Assistant, Online Interactive Culturally Tailored HIV Prevention Intervention, 2009-2010, Annenberg School for Communication, USC.

Funded by California HIV/AIDS Research Program (CHRP), this project assesses whether an “online” SOLV-IAV intervention is effective for reducing UAI risk for Men who have Sex with Men (MSM). Lynn Carol Miller, PhD; Carlos Godoy, PhD.


Graduate Research Assistant, Socially Optimized Learning in Virtual Environments (SOLVE): Virtual Sex Project, 2006-present, Annenberg School for Communication, USC.

Funded by National Institute of Allergy and Infections Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH), this project investigates multimedia interventions to encourage condom use and safe sex practices among MSM; Position involved recruiting participants, conducting interviews, research design, and multiple independent analyses. Lynn Carol Miller, PhD; Stephen J. Read, PhD; Paul Robert Appleby, PhD.


Graduate Research Assistant, Surgical Multimedia Academic and Research Training (SMART) Project, 2004-6, Plastic Surgery Dept. Keck School of Medicine, USC.

Funded by University of Southern California, this project established guidelines to optimize cognitive efficiency in multimedia learning tools for medical use; Position involved developing Flash interfaces for randomized control trial comparing two multimedia learning tools. Tiffany Grunwald, MD.


Undergraduate Research Assistant, Aesthetic judgment of faces in degraded images, 2002-3, Face and Object Recognition Lab, MIT.

This project investigated brain’s processing of attractiveness. Position involved establishing a robust face database as well as designing and conducting experiments. Pawan Sinha, PhD.


Fellowship and Grant Awards


Society for Personality and Social Psychology Student Travel Award (2009)

Funding to attend Society of Personality and Social Psychology Conference.


USC EDGE Travel Grant (2009) sponsored by USC Graduate School and National Science Foundation (NSF)

Funding to attend Society of Personality and Social Psychology Conference.


USC Graduate School Summer Diversity Fellowship (2007)

Funding to produce USC Promotional Video for Masters Research.


USC Provost Diversity Fellowship (Awarded 2006)

Funding for 2 Years of Doctoral Research.


Publications


Miller, L. C., Christensen, J. L., Godoy, C. G., Appleby, P. R., Corsbie-Massay, C., & Read, S. J. (2009). Reducing Risky Decision-Making in the Virtual and in the Real-World: Serious Games, Intelligent Agents, and a SOLVE Approach. In U. Ritterfeld, M. Cody, P. Vorderer (Eds.) Serious Games: Mechanisms and Effects. Routledge/LEA Press.

Corsbie-Masssay, C. (2008). “Chér and Jessica Simpson: An Investigation into Star Marriages.” The Film and Television Stardom Anthology. England: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Read, S. J., Miller, L. C., Kostygina, A., Chopra, G., Christensen, J. L., Corsbie-Massay, C., Zachary, W., LeMentec, J., Iordanof, V., Rosoff, A.(September, 2007). The Personality-enabled Architecture for Cognition (PAC). Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction. Springer.

Grunwald, T., Corsbie-Massay, C. (2006). Guidelines for Cognitively Efficient Multimedia Learning Tools: A review of literature relating to educational strategies, cognitive load and interface design. Academic Medicine. Mar 2006.

Grunwald, T., Corsbie-Massay, C. (2006). Surgical Multimedia Academic, Research and Training (SMART) Tool. Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 14. Ed. Westwood, JD. IOS/Ohmsha Press. Washington DC.

Grunwald, T., Corsbie-Massay, C. (2006). Surgical Multimedia Academic, Research and Training (S.M.A.R.T.) tool: a comparative analysis of cognitive efficiency for two multimedia learning interfaces that teach the pre-procedural processes for carpal tunnel release. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 119:165-169.

Corsbie-Massay, C. (2005). “Book Review: Henry Jenkins and David Thorburn’s Democracy and New Media”, Resource Center for Cyber Cultural Studies, September. <http://rccs.usfca.edu/bookinfo.asp?ReviewID=350&BookID=286>.

Sinha, P. Sadr, J., Fatke, B., Massay, C. (2002) Aesthetic Judgments of Faces in Degraded Images. Vision Sciences Society, 2, 255; Journal of Vision, 2(7), 743a.

Conference Presentations


Miller, L. C., Read, S. J., Appleby, R. A., Christensen, J. L., Corsbie-Massay, C., Godoy, C. (February 2009). Socially Optimizing Learning in Virtual Environments (SOLVE): Technology-enabling test beds for theory, intervention application, and dissemination… and back again. Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Tampa, FL.

Christensen, J. L., Miller, L. C., Appleby, P. R., Corsbie-Massay, C., Godoy, C. G., Read, S. J. (May 2007). Negative Affective Reactions to an HIV-Prevention Intervention: Impact on Subsequent Sexual Risk-Taking Among Young Men Who Have Sex With Men. Presented at International Communication Association. San Francisco, CA, 2007.

Corsbie-Massay, C., & Grunwald, T. (June 2006). Surgical Multimedia Academic, Research and Training (S.M.A.R.T.) Tool: A comparative analysis of cognitive efficiency for two multimedia learning interfaces that teach the pre procedural processes for carpal tunnel release. Presented at ED-MEDIA: World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications, Orlando, FL.

Corsbie-Massay, C. (May 2006). Television Conventions and Beauty Pageant Ideology. Presented at Pacific Sociological Association, Universal City, CA.

Corsbie-Massay, C. (May 2006). Creating Identities: The Emergence and Commodification of the Single City Girl (1960-1975). Presented at the Cultural Studies Association Annual Conference, Alexandria, VA.

Corsbie-Massay, C. (March 2006). CNN vs. Fox: The New Cola Wars. Presented at the Communication in Crisis Conference, Amherst, MA, 2006

Corsbie-Massay, C. (January 2006). Surgical Multimedia Academic, Research and Training (S.M.A.R.T.) Tool: A Comparative Analysis of Cognitive Efficiency for two Multimedia Learning Interfaces that Teach the Pre-procedural Processes for Carpal Tunnel Release. Presented at Medicine Meets Virtual Reality, Long Beach, CA.

Corsbie-Massay, C. (October, 2005). Chér and Jessica Simpson; An investigation into star couples. Presented at Media Stardom Conference, Plymouth, NH.

Corsbie-Massay, C. (May, 2005). Work Hard, Play Hard; The Hidden Celebration of MIT’s Alternative Community. Presented at The International Society for Contemporary Legend Research, Athens, GA.

POSTERS


Corsbie-Massay, C. (February, 2009). Effects of Media Exclusion, or Where are all the People of Color on Friends? Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Tampa, FL.

Christensen, J. L., Appleby, R. A., Ananias, D. K., Miller, L. C., Corsbie-Massay, C., Read, S. J., (February, 2009) Expecting the worst: The link between risky decision-making and the perceived probability of feared future selves. Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Tampa, FL.

Christensen, J. L., Miller, L. C., Appleby, P. R., Corsbie-Massay, C., Godoy, C. G., Read, S. J. (February, 2009). When It’s Good to Feel Bad: How Responses to Virtual Environments Predict Real-Life Risk-Taking. International Communication Association. San Francisco, CA.

Read, S. J., Miller, L. C., Kostygina, A., Chopra, G., Christensen, J. L., Corsbie-Massay, C., Zachary, W., LeMentec, J., Iordanof, V., Rosoff, A. (September, 2007). The Personality-enabled Architecture for Cognition (PAC). International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction. Lisbon, Portugal.

Christensen, J. L., Miller, L. C., Godoy, C. G., Appleby, P. R., Corsbie-Massay, C., Read, S. J. (May, 2007). Using Virtual Environments to Reduce Real-Life Sexual Risk-Taking: The Impact of Interactivity and Negative Affect. Annenberg Workshop on Games for Learning, Development, & Change. Annenberg School for Communication. University of Southern California. Los Angeles, CA.

Teaching Experience


Graduate Assistant, Instructor, Mentor McNair Scholars Program, USC Office of Diversity Outreach, 2008-present, USC.

Teaching Assistant

PSYC 359: Interpersonal Relations, 2008-2009, USC.
PSYC 355: Social Psychology, Spring 2008, USC.
PSYC 336: Developmental Psychology, Fall 2007, USC.
CTCS 191: Introduction to Television, Spring 2006, USC.


Guest Lecturer

Personality, Spring 2009, California State University Long Beach (CSULB). Media and Identity Construction: A Case Study of the Single City Girl.
Interpersonal Relations, 2008-2009, USC. Do you love me? Learning about relationships from television.
Social Psychology, Spring 2008, USC. Media and Conformity; Media and Stereotype Activation
Critical Thinking, Fall 2007, CSULB. Media and Decision Making.
Development Psychology, Fall 2007, USC. Sesame Street and Development: Who, What, Where, When, and How Children Learn from Educational Television.


Reader/Grader CTCS 469: Style of Spielberg, Fall 2005, USC.

Coordinator Jigsaw Project 2002-2003, Collaborative: Lifelong Kindergarten, MIT Media Lab; Computer Clubhouse Network; Boys and Girls Clubs of Boston

Created and produced a collaborative project teaching adolescents around the Boston area to create movies using Adobe Premiere.


Instructor MTV: An Analytical History, Summer 2002, MIT.