Sarah Allred, PhD

Sarah R. Allred (they/them) is a writer, teacher, and researcher at Rutgers University-Camden, where they are a Professor in the Department of Psychology and affiliated faculty with the Center for Computational and Integrative Biology (CCIB).  Dr. Allred earned a PhD in Neurobiology and Behavior from the University of Washington-Seattle and a B.S. in Applied Physics from Brigham Young University, and they completed postdoctoral work in psychophysics and computational modeling at the University of Pennsylvania. From 2017-2021, Dr. Allred served consecutively as the Faculty Director and Director of the Senator Walter Rand Institute for Public Affairs at Rutgers University-Camden, and from 2023-2024 they served as the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education for the Rutgers Camden College of Arts & Science.

Dr. Allred’s fundamental interest in how the brain sees underlies all their work for both academic and public audiences.  Their research methods include behavioral psychophysics, computational modeling, and quantitative analysis of large secondary data sets.  In research, teaching, and service, Dr. Allred practices their belief that when scholars are in communication with public and community stakeholders as well as other scholars, the end result is both better scholarly work and a better world.