Benjamin Uel Marsh

Biography

Prior to joining the Department of Psychology as an assistant professor, Benjamin Uel Marsh, Ph.D., was an adjunct professor at APU, and taught and mentored students at Claremont McKenna College, Pomona College, and Claremont Graduate University in research design and statistical analysis. As a cognitive psychologist, his research centers on three areas: 1) bilingualism and memory focusing on the language dependent recall effect; 2) biculturalism and memory focusing on how priming ones ethnic and national identity influences memory for faces and other information; and 3) how priming bilingual biculturals’ ethnic (e.g., Latino) and national (e.g., American) identity influences the accessibility of their dominant and secondary languages.

Research Interest

His research centers on three areas: bilingualism and memory focusing on the language dependent recall effect, biculturalism and memory focusing on how priming ones ethnic and national identity influences memory for faces and other information, how priming bilingual biculturals’ ethnic (e.g., Latino) and national (e.g., American) identity influences the accessibility of their dominant and secondary languages.