Dr. Eva Chian-hui Chen

Eva (Chian-Hui) Chen received her doctorate in Developmental Psychology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 2011 and joined Benedictine College as a faculty in the same year. She is committed to bringing diversity into our understanding of human development via undergraduate teaching, advising and mentoring, as well as collaborative research.

She teaches General Psychology, Developmental Psychology I &II, Lifespan Development, Cultural Psychology, and Research Seminar. Collaborative learning is essential to her teaching philosophy as it makes the classroom a place where everyone can cooperate, challenge, contribute, encourage, and support one another. In her teaching, she strives to inspire students to be self-directed lifelong learners.

Her research seeks to take an interdisciplinary approach to studying human development in cultural contexts. One area of her research focuses on understanding Vietnamese-Taiwanese transnational marriage families in Taiwan. Another area of focus is on examining teaching effectiveness in developmental psychology.