Ph.D., Psychology, conferred December 1996 by Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA.
M.A., Psychology conferred 1989 by Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA.
B.A., Psychology, cum laude, 1988, University of Dallas, Irving TX.
Fall 2012–present: Program Director, Master’s Program in Psychology at the University
of Dallas, Irving TX.
Fall 2008–Spring 2014: Chair of Psychology Department at the University of Dallas,
Irving TX.
Fall 2007–present: Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Dallas,
Irving TX.
Fall 2001–Spring 2007: Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Dallas,
Irving, TX.
Fall, 1997–Spring 2001: Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University
of Dallas, Irving TX.
Spring 1997: Assistant Professor (Temporary) at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania.
Fall, 1995–Fall, 1996, inclusive: Adjunct Faculty in Psychology at Seton Hill College,
Greensburg, PA.
Fall 1991–Spring 1995, inclusive: Teaching Fellow of the Psychology Department at
Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA.
Fall 1989–Spring 1991, inclusive: Teaching Assistant in the Psychology Department
at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA.
Professional Organizations
- Member of American Psychological Association, 2003- present.
- Member of the Society of Phenomenology and Media, 2008.
- Member of Division 32 of the American Psychological Association, Humanistic Psychology, 2003- present.
- Member of Division 5 of the American Psychological Association, Evaluation, Measurement, Statistics, 2011- present.
- Member of the Society for Qualitative Inquiry in Psychology (SQIP), 2011-present.
- Member of Southwestern Psychological Association, 2004, 2008-present.
- Since its inaugural issue in 2014, I have been a member of the editorial Board for the APA journal, Qualitative Psychology.
- In the fall of 2012 I served as reviewer of conference submissions for the Southwestern Psychological Association.
- In Spring of 2008 I served as a reviewer of program submissions for the 41st meeting of the North Texas Philosophical Association, University of North Texas, Denton TX.
- In 2007 I served as a reviewer for program submissions for Division 24 (Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology) for the 116th annual convention of the American Psychological Association.
- In the Fall of 2000 I was named to the editorial board of the journal, Methods: A Journal for Human Science.
Dissertation:
My dissertation, Bodily Disappearance and Dys-appearance: An Empirical Phenomenological Investigation
of Bodily Taking up a Task, was completed in December 1997. This work sought to examine how the psychological
literature of the body in action reveals a dualistic bias that prevents a faithful
description of human embodied experience. By performing a thematic, qualitative analysis
of subjects' experience in performing a manual drawing task with both their preferred
and non-preferred hands, and drawing on the literature of existential phenomenology,
this work outlined a non-dualistic language to faithfully describe phenomena of human
embodiment.
Additional Publications:
Landrum, B., Guilbeau, C., & Garza, G. (2017). Why teach? A project-ive life-world
approach to understanding what teaching means for teachers. Qualitative Research in
Education, 6(3), 327-351. doi:10.17583/qre.2017.2947
Landrum, B., & Garza, G. (2016). What's in a name? Exploring the impact of naming
assignments. Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 62 (3), 306-317.
Landrum, B., & Garza, G. (2015). Mending fences: Defining the domains and approaches
of quantitative and qualitative research. Qualitative Psychology, 2 (2), 199-209. doi:10.1037/qup0000030
Landurm, B., & Garza, G. (2015). A Reply to Gergen (2015) and Madill (2015). Qualitative Psychology, 2 (2), 226-228. doi:10.1037/qup0000029
Garza, G. & Landrum, B. (2015). Meanings of compulsive hoarding: An archival project-ive
life-world approach. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 12, 138-161. doi: 10.1080/14780887.2014.948698
Garza, G. (2011). Thematic collation: An illustrative analysis of the experience of
regret. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 8 (1), 40 — 65. DOI: 10.1080/14780880903490839
Garza, G., & Landrum, B. (2010). Ethics and the Primacy of the Other: A Levinasian
Foundation for Phenomenological Research. Indopacific Journal of Phenomenology, 10(2), 12pp., DOI 2010.2.3.1084
Garza, G. & Fisher Smith, A. M. (2009). Beyond Neurobiological Reductionism: Recovering
the Intentional and Expressive Body. Theory & Psychology, 19, 519-544, doi: 10.1177/0959354309336318.
Landrum, B. & Garza, G. (2008). Meanings of self, place, and others in the wireless
world. Glimpse, 9-10, 38-44.
For more articles and reviews, see CV.
Garza, G. (2016, May.). Teaching phenomenological research: Moving beyond 'content'
towards the intentional. Presentation at the 2016 Society for Qualitative Inquiry
in Psychology Conference, Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ.
Landrum, B., Garza, G., & Guilbeau, C. (2015, Aug.). Reaching for infinity: Ethical
telic horizons of teaching for highly motivated professors. Paper presented at the
34th International Human Science Research Conference, HiST, Trondheim, Norway.
Garza, G. (2014, Oct.). Standing and Falling: Exploring the Rupture Impact on a Phenomenological
Perspective. Keynote address presented at the Psychology for the Other Seminar, Seattle
University, Seattle, WA.
Garza, G. & Landrum, B. (2014, Aug.). Facebook Intensity, College Satisfaction, and
Meanings of Home. Paper presented at the 122nd Annual Convention of the American Psychological
Association, Washington, DC.
Garza, G., & Landrum, B. (2014, May). Gender in Mad Men: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological
Exploration of the Marketing and Commodification of Desire and Identity. Paper presented
at the 4th Meeting of the Interdisciplinary Coalition of North American Phenomenologists,
Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, MO.
Landrum, B., & Garza, G. (2014, May). A Phenomenological Focus Group Approach to Men's
and Women's Attitudes Towards Menstruation. Paper presented at the 4th Meeting of
the Interdisciplinary Coalition of North American Phenomenologists, Saint Louis University,
Saint Louis, MO.
Landrum, B., Watanabe, C., & Garza, G. (2014, April). Men and Women's Self Reported
and Imagined Women's Attitudes Towards Menstruation. Paper presented at the 60th Meeting
of the Southwestern Psychological Association, San Antonio, TX.
Landrum, B. & Garza, G. (2013, August). Mending fences, crossing boundaries: A framework
for methodological pluralism. Paper presented at the Annual International Human Science
Research Conference, Aarhus University, Aalborg, Denmark.
Garza, G. & Landrum, B. (2013, August). The life world of hoarding: A projective archival
approach. Paper presented at the Annual International Human Science Research Conference,
Aarhus University, Aalborg, Denmark.
Landrum, B., Garza, G., & Rossi, J. (2013, April). Right or Left? Presidential Vote
and Perceptions of Government. Paper presented at the 59th Meeting of the Southwestern
Psychological Association, Fort Worth, TX.
Garza, G., Landrum, B., & Rossi, J. (2013, April). Three types of memory: Teaching
experimental design to undergraduates. Poster presented at the 59th Meeting of the
Southwestern Psychological Association, Fort Worth, TX.
Landrum, B. & Garza, G. (2012, April). Does handwriting size affect speed: Teaching experimental design to undergraduates. Poster presented at the 58th Meeting of the Southwestern Psychological Association,
Oklahoma City, OK.
Landrum, B. & Garza, G. (2011, July). How vision tells the truth: Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception and the neuroscience
of vision. Paper presented at the Annual International Human Science Research Conference, St.
Catherine’s College, Oxford.
Garza, G. & Landrum, B. (2011, July). Data as Gesture: A Merleau-Pontian Approach to Phenomenological Research. Paper presented at the Annual International Human Science Research Conference, St.
Catherine’s College, Oxford.
Garza, G. & Landrum, B. (2011, April). Defining the edge : Exploring the boundaries of knowledge in mixed methods research. Paper accepted for presentation at the Society for Humanistic Psychology Annual Conference,
Chicago, IL.
For more presentations, see CV.