Pat Hawley joined the University of Kansas faculty in 2002. As a member of the Developmental Program, she teaches courses in child development, social and personality development, statistics, and evolution and human behavior. Her research focuses on the role of power and status in interpersonal relationships across the life span.


Her PhD in Psychology is from the University of California at Riverside where she studied evolution, animal behavior, and quantitative methods. She spent several years in Berlin, Germany, at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development as a Post doctoral Fellow until 1998 when she returned to a research position at Yale and a teaching position at So. Connecticut State University.


Though a native to southern California, she lives happily at the center of Google Earth in Lawrence, Kansas with her husband and three dogs.