Dr. James earned her PhD in the Cognitive Sciences program at Georgia State (2024). Her dissertation was titled “Assessing Stimulus and Cognitive Control in Adults, Preschool Children, Capuchin Monkeys and Rhesus Macaques in A Conditional Discrimination Task.”

She graduated with Bachelor of Science degrees in Zoology and Psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she completed her senior honors thesis on mirror self-recognition in rhesus macaques at the Harlow Center for Biological Psychology. She earned her M.A. at Georgia State in 2018, studying perception of scenes in adult humans, rhesus monkeys, and capuchin monkeys.

Her current research interests include studying primate cognition and comparative psychology. This includes study of perception, self-control, learning, and metacognition.

Dr. James is now assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at Agnes Scott College. Her faculty page can be found here.