Christina M. Roup, Ph.D.
Associate Professor & Lab Director
roup.2@osu.edu
Christina received her B.A. and M.A. in Communicative Disorders from the California State University Long Beach, and completed a predoctoral fellowship at the Mt. Home VAMC in Johnson City, TN. She received her Ph.D. in Communicative Disorders from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2002. Christina worked as a Research Audiologist at the VA Outpatient Clinic in Martinez, CA, where she coordinated amplification research. She joined The Ohio State University as an Assistant Professor in 2004, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2011. Christina teaches courses in introductory audiology, audiologic assessment, and audiologic rehabilitation. Christina is the director of the Speech Recognition and Aging Laboratory and studies age-related deficits in binaural speech processing and the effects of traumatic brain injury on auditory processing.
At the Department level, Christina has served as the Chair of the Audiology Oversight Subcommittee, and currently serves as the Director of the Graduate Studies Committee and the Ph.D. Program Coordinator. Outside the university, she has served as the President of the Ohio Academy of Audiology, Chair of the Education Committee for the American Academy of Audiology, and is currently an Editor for the American Journal of Audiology. Christina received ASHA Fellow in 2022.
In 2014, Christina spent a 3-month sabbatical at the National Acoustic Laboratories in Sydney, Australia.
Devan Lander, B.A.
Graduate Research Associate
lander.50@buckeyemail.osu.edu
Devan completed her undergraduate degree in Communicative Disorders and Deaf Education at Utah State University with a minor in Family, Community, and Human Development. She relocated to Ohio for her graduate training is pursuing an Au.D./Ph.D. Her research interests include speech perception, cognition, and aging of the auditory system across the lifespan. Devan was awarded the Albert Schweitzer Fellowship in 2021 and the Mentored Student Research award from the American Auditory Society in 2023. Devan is currently completing her AuD Externship at the VA Medical Center and NCRAR in Portland, OR.
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Jessi Lewis, AuD.
PhD Student
lewis.1792@buckeyemail.osu.edu
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Lab Alumni:
Alaina Eiterman (2022-2024) Undergraduate Thesis Research
Emma Woolf, AuD (2018-2022) Graduate Research Associate
Shauntelle Cannon (2021-2022) Graduate Research Associate
Sarah Ferguson (2021-2023) Au.D. Capstone Research
Abby Simon (2021-2013) Au.D. Capstone Research
Sarah Haysley (2022-2023) Undergraduate Honors Thesis Research
Kelsey Butz (2021-2022) Undergraduate Thesis Research
Jennifer Hoffman (2020-2022) Undergraduate Thesis Research
Kait Ferretti (2021-2022) Lab Volunteer
Karl Velik (2019-2021) Graduate Research Associate
Riley DeBacker (2017-2018) Graduate Research Associate
Donna Green, Au.D. (2016-2019) Undergraduate Thesis Research, Au.D. Capstone Research
Kelsi Wittum, Au.D. (2015-2016) Au.D. Capstone Research
Spenser Miller, Au.D. (2015-2016) Au.D. Capstone Research
Julie Powell, Au.D. (2015-2019) Undergraduate Research, Au.D. Capstone Research, Graduate Research Associate
Jessica Lewis, B.A. (2014-2018) Undergraduate Thesis Research
Emily Post, Au.D. (2014-2016) Au.D. Capstone Research
Amy Custer, Ph.D. (2013-2015) Au.D. Capstone Research, Graduate Research Associate
Donna Grittani, Au.D. (2013-2014) Au.D. Capstone Research
Traci Miller, Au.D. (2010-2013) Undergraduate Thesis Research, Au.D. Capstone Research
Emily Brown (2013) Undergraduate Thesis Research
Katie Duncan, Au.D. (2008-2011) Au.D. Capstone Research, Graduate Research Associate
Jennifer Shcumacher (2010-2011) Au.D. Capstone Research
Madeline Stevens (2011) Undergraduate Thesis Research
Kelsey Egelhoff, Ph.D. (2007-2011) Graduate Research Associate
Anna Fry, Au.D. (2010) Undergraduate Thesis Research
Erin Tarney, Au.D. (2010) Undergraduate Thesis Research
Ursula Findlen, Ph.D. (2007-2009) Graduate Research Associate
Christina Wenning, Au.D. (2008-2009) Au.D. Capstone Research
Jennifer Bournique, Au.D. (2009) Undergraduate Thesis Research
Jessica Freesen, Au.D. (2009) Undergraduate Thesis Research
Makenzie Kline (2009) Undergraduate Thesis Research
Kate Bowman, Au.D. (2008) Undergraduate Thesis Research
Mallory Monjot, Au.D. (2008) Undergraduate Thesis Research
Elizabeth Moller (2007) Undergraduate Thesis Research