Tess is currently a teaching fellow at the University of Chicago.

As a graduate student in Developmental Psychology, Tess worked with Dr. Amanda Woodward and successfully defended her dissertation in July 2023. She graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in April 2017 with a B.S. in Psychology. For her honors thesis, she investigated how mothers’ speech was influenced by their infants’ gender, age, motor milestones, and risk for ASD.

Tess is broadly interested in motor and social development and how these two areas interact. Her other interests include how culture and context influence the course of individual infants’ development and in the complex interrelations between the capabilities of growing infants, and the myriad of environmental affordances they can perceive, understand, and utilize.

Office: Green Hall, Room 501
Phone: (773) 834-9791
mtfulcher@uchicago.edu