Drais-Parrillo, Alicia

Alicia Drais-Parrillo, Ph.D., is a Teaching Professor at the Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Drais-Parrillo teaches courses on personality, interpersonal relationships, development, gender, and multicultural psychology. She has been teaching at Penn State since 2012. Prior to joining the Psychology Department, Dr. Drais-Parrillo taught at several small liberal arts colleges and a preschool and worked as a principal investigator in the research department at Child Welfare League of America. She received her doctorate in Human Development and Family Studies from the Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Drais-Parrillo also holds a B.A. in Liberal Arts, an M.S. in Child Development and Family Studies, and an M.A. in Early Education, as well as a minor degree in Statistics.