Marcia Collaer is the A. Barton Hepburn Endowed Professor of Psychology and an affiliate of the Neuroscience Program at Middlebury College in Vermont (US).  She earned a Ph.D. in Psychology (specialization in Behavioral Neuroscience) from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), as well as an earlier Masters of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Arizona, and a Masters degree in School Psychology from the University of South Carolina.  She was a Churchill College Overseas Fellow in 2018-19 and a By-Fellow during the Lent and Easter terms of 2013.

Her research focuses on the origins of sex and individual differences in personality, cognition, and behavior, particularly in relation to hormonal and social factors and their potential interactions.  Her experience as a (somewhat rare) female student in a graduate engineering program, decades ago, doubtless spurred some of her research interests in gender issues, and these were fostered during her graduate work at UCLA where her research was supervised by Professor Melissa Hines of Churchill College.  Marcia is pleased to be collaborating with Professor Hines again during her time as an Overseas Fellow with the goal of investigating neurobehavioral development in rare endocrine populations.