Vanager, Dr. Sibyl
About
Dr. Vanager’s love for psychology developed due to her taking an elective introductory
psychology course during her sophomore year at William Smith College. She later earned a
doctorate degree in cognitive, social, and developmental psychology from The New School for
Social Research. Her teaching career spans over a decade. Before embarking on a career in
academia, she spent a decade in the pharmaceutical and medical device sales industries. Those
positions cultivated her research interests, including parental styles, health promotion,
coping with chronic illness, and emotion work. She has presented her research at national and international conferences and has co-authored a book chapter on the importance of
mentoring at historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs).