Lake Forest College B.A. 1972 Psychology
University of Connecticut Ph.D. 1981 Experimental Psychology
| 1981-1985 | Assistant Professor, SUNY-Binghamton | |
| 1985-1987 | Visiting Assistant Professor, Trinity College | |
| 1987-present | Associate Research Professor/Research Professor/Professor, University of Connecticut | |
| 1987-present | Director, Center for the Ecological Study of Perception and Action | |
| 1991 -2006 | Research Scientist, Haskins Laboratories |
Program Chair, International Society for Ecological Psychology
Board of Directors, International Society for Ecological Psychology
Board of Directors, Haskins Laboratories
Consulting Editor, Psychological Review
Advisory Board, International Conferences on Perception and Action
National Science Foundation Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training
National Science Foundation Workshop on Cyberinfrastructure and the Social Sciences
National Science Foundation Science and Learning Centers
Richard M. Hantke Alumni Teacher Award from Lake Forest College, October 2001
Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2004
Claudia Carello specializes in visual, auditory, and haptic perception research in the tradition of James Gibson’s ecological approach. She has published over 100 journal articles and book chapters. Her co-authored primer, Direct Perception, has been influential in bringing that approach to a wide audience of philosophers, kinesiologists, and beginning students of perception. Among her invited presentations are addresses to the Swiss Geographers Association, Toronto Conference on Visual Metaphor, San Marino Conference on Representation and Blindness, Amsterdam Conference on Perception and Action, Brazilian Congress of Motor Control, Bernstein Conference on Motor Control, and the Seoul National Symposium on A New Perspective for the 21st Century: The Ecological and Dynamical Systems Approaches. She has also been enlisted for a series of workshop lectures to the Japanese National Institute of Informatics (on ecological psychology), the Penn State Motor Control Summer School (on the physics and psychology of the muscle sense), and the American Psychological Association’s Advanced Training Institute (nonlinear dynamical methods for the behavioral sciences). She is Director of the Center for the Ecological Study of Perception and Action, a multidisciplinary research center at the University of Connecticut. Her research is funded by the National Science Foundation and by DARPA.
