Ph.D., Kent State University, Kent, OH
M.A., SUNY Brockport, Brockport, NY
B.S., SUNY Brockport, Brockport, NY
A.S., Monroe Community College, Henrietta, NY
Chelsea Monheim, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Office
Science Center
“I love teaching and seeing students use material from class in their lives. I take pride in being an inclusive teacher and am always seeking out new learning opportunities to get better at it.”
Year Joined Franklin
2025
I want to do something in psychology but I don't want to be a therapist, what can I do?
Thankfully there are many areas of psychology including – but not limited to – counseling/clinical, social, cognitive, school, health, personality, biopsychology, sport, I/O, and forensic. All these areas have a variety of jobs that you can do outside of being a therapist, so if you enjoy your psychology courses, be sure to consider that vast amount of jobs your degree can offer!
I want to go to graduate school but I'm unsure of what I want to research while I'm there. How do I figure this out?
Finding out what you want to research is definitely a big decision to make. Knowing what you want to research is important because graduate schools often don’t like to take students who do not know what they want to research. In graduate school students often conduct research for many years as a part of their program so it’s important that you research something that interests you. One of the best ways to figure out what you want to research is to take a variety of psychology courses. Don’t limit yourself to “easy” courses, take courses that will expose you to different ways of thinking. This can definitely help you decide what kind of research you want to do.
Selected Professional Accomplishments
Publications
Monheim, C. L., Himmelstein, M. S., Wetzel, K. E. (in press). The relationship between spontaneous self-affirmation and shame in people with concealable stigmatized identities. The Journal of Social Psychology.
Ratcliff, J. J., Miller, A. K., Monheim, C. L., & Rice, C. (2025). Posttraumatic
growth and meaning in life mediate the relationship between severity of adolescent
bullying victimization and adulthood health outcomes. Journal of Interpersonal Violence.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605251343203
Monheim, C. L., & Himmelstein, M. S. (2024). A concealable intervention for
a concealed group: Applying self-affirmation interventions to people with concealable stigmatized identities. Social and Personality Psychology Compass. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/spc3.70017
Monheim, C. L. & Himmelstein, M. S. (2023). Mechanisms linking concealable stigmatized
identity and health: Amplifiers and coping mechanisms. Stigma and Health. Advance online publication. doi: https://doi.org/10.1037/sah0000464
Monheim, C. L. & Himmelstein, M. S. (2022). Democrats and independents stigmatized people
with COVID-19 greater compared to republicans. The Journal of Social Psychology. doi: 10.1080/00224545.2022.2144709
Monheim, C. L., & Himmelstein, M. S. (2022). Public health noncompliance: Targets
with COVID-19 are stigmatized when they fail to follow public health protocols. Stigma
and Health, 7(4), 491-500. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/sah0000388
Monheim, C. L., Ratcliff, J. J., (2021). Perceived social norms on a college campus impact
acceptance of transgender students in gendered spaces. Journal of LGBT Youth, 1-17. doi.org/10.1080/19361653.2021.1928583.
In my spare time I...
In my spare time I love to watch horror movies. I am a huge fan of all things horror/spooky/Halloween. My favorite thing to do is go to haunted houses. Currently, I’ve been to 29 haunted houses across the Midwest and East Coast. I’ve worked at some amazing haunted houses as an actor, makeup artist, and actor trainer.