Dawn-Marie Wood

Professor Wood joined the BYU faculty in 2014 and contributed as an adjunct instructor in the Department of Psychology for six years before serving as a visiting assistant professor from 2020 to 2021. She entered the professional CFS-track in 2021 and received continuing faculty status and was promoted to the rank of associate teaching professor in 2024.

Professor Wood holds the BYU Wells and Myrle Cloward "Teaching and Learning Faculty Fellowship" (2025-2028) and has received numerous pedagogical honors, including the FHSS "Belonging Scholar" award as well as the FHSS Martin B. Hickman "Innovation in Teaching" and "Excellence in Teaching" awards, alongside various experiential teaching grants. She is founding director of the Psychology Mentored Research Program (PMRP) and contributes on the Faculty Advisory Council (FAC) and Hinckley Chair Advisory Committee, in addition to chairing the Psychology Department's faculty and student-led committees for Belonging & Diversity and serving on the departmental committee tasked with reviewing Faculty Stewardship.

Professor Wood enjoys orienting first-year students to the university experience in UNIV 101: BYU Foundations for Student Success and directing a study abroad program, entitled "Empires and Identities: Gender and Multiculturalism in Ancient and Modern Worlds," which provides psychology undergraduates with experiential learning opportunities in Greece, Italy, and the United Kingdom. While she and her husband (both from California) have lived as far away as São Paulo, Brazil, they now reside in Salt Lake County, where they have raised their four children.