Kate Votaw is an Assistant Teaching Professor and the UMSL campus Undergraduate Research Coordinator. She returned to UMSL’s campus after receiving her B.A. in Psychological Sciences from UMSL in 2009 and her M.S. and Ph.D. for Social Psychology from Saint Louis University in 2016. Her primary position on campus is to teach undergraduates in the liberal arts tradition in the UMSL Pierre Laclede Honors College. She teaches a variety of classes ranging from a seminar version of General Psychology, to Psychology in Pop Culture (also known as “The Harry Potter Class”), and The Science of Psychology, helping all majors understand and apply the nuances of social sciences research methodology. She is also a faculty advisor to Honors students with majors of psychology, anthropology, music and music education, and undeclared majors. 

In addition to her work in the UMSL Honors College, Kate is also the UMSL Campus Undergraduate Research Coordinator. Her goals in this recently-created position are to catalog, promote, and connect the research projects of UMSL undergraduate students and faculty mentors. She also organizes the annual Undergraduate Research Symposium, held the last Friday of April.