Biography
Hi! I so loved my time at UIUC. I'm now an assistant professor of clinical psychology at Mississippi State University. Below are links to my Mississippi State directory page and lab website. You can reach me at ar3029@msstate.edu
https://www.psychology.msstate.edu/directory/ar3029
Education
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, PhD in Clinical-Community Psychology
Wellesley College, B.A. in Psychology
Grants
$25,000 - P.E.O. Scholar Award
Awards and Honors
P.E.O. Scholar Award (for excellence in research and academic service/leadership, 2025)
Rappaport-Lo Award (for contributions to research, scholarship, teaching, and/or intervention for the benefit of people of color, 2025)
Frederick & Ruby Kanfer Achievement Award (for excellence in research and scholarship aimed at improving psychological lives, 2025)
Teachers ranked as excellent (fall 2023, spring 2024)
Herman Eisen Award (recognizing professional contributions to psychology; “reflecting a commitment to mental health needs in Champaign-Urbana,” 2023)
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Impact Award (spring 2021; shared with Brett Bergmann & Maya Marder)
Child Maltreatment and Interpersonal Violence Special Interest Group (Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies) Poster Award (2020)
Women Organized Against Rape Volunteer of the Year (2018)
Student Mental Health Advocate of the Year Award (Jordan Porco Foundation, 2017)
Courses Taught
I loved teaching our service-learning course, which was a course on trauma-informed care for youth that included student engagement with our community partner, Cunningham Children's Home.
I recommend checking out Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program (URAP). In the past, I have been a mentor in this program. http://undergradresearch.illinois.edu/programs/urap.html.
External Links
Highlighted Publications
Check out my Google Scholar for a complete list of publications.
Rieger, A., Watkins, C., & Garthe, R. C. (2024). Appreciating the complexity of local gender-based violence needs assessments: Some key considerations and tensions in context. Violence Against Women.
Rieger, A., Zhan, Q., Griffin, B., Garthe, R. C., & Allen, N. E. (2024). Perils and possibilities: Sexual violence preventionists’ perspectives on gathering community input on prevention practice. Violence Against Women.
Rieger, A., Campbell, J., & Garthe, R. C. (2024). Connecting to community: Violence prevention barriers, geography, and preventionist perceptions of community leadership and opportunities. Health Promotion Practice.
Rieger, A., Blackburn, A. M., Nag, A., Holland, H., & Allen, N. E. (2023). Contradictions in change: Ecological factors in the implementation of outer layer sexual violence prevention. American Journal of Community Psychology.
Garthe, R. C., Rieger, A., Goffnet, J., Kaur, A., Sarol, J. N., Blackburn, A. M., Kim, S., Hereth, J., & Kennedy, A. C. (2022). Grade-level differences of peer and dating victimization among transgender, gender expansive, female, and male adolescents. Journal of LGBTQ Youth.
Nnawulezi, N., Rieger, A., Shaw, J., Greeson, M., Lichty, L., & Allen, N. E. (2022). Reflecting and rejuvenating our work, together: One team’s consideration of AJCP publications on gender-based violence. American Journal of Community Psychology 70(3-4), 255-264.
Rieger, A., Blackburn, A. M., Bystrynski, J. B., Garthe, R. C., & Allen, N. E. (2021). The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on gender-based violence in the United States: Framework and policy recommendations. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy.