Hello! My name is Wesley (Wes) Barnhart (they/them/he/him), and I am a fifth-year graduate student in the clinical psychology program at Bowling Green State University (BGSU). I earned a B.A. in psychology with honors and research distinction at Ohio State University in 2016 (Senior Thesis: Reward Processing and Risky Decision Making in College Students With and Without Self-Reported Disordered Eating Behaviors, advised by Melissa T. Buelow, Ph.D.). I also earned a B.S. in systems/behavioral neuroscience with honors at Ohio State University in 2019 while employed as a Clinical Research Assistant (2016 – 2019) with the Ohio Disability and Health Program, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-funded program whose primary goal is to improve the health of Ohioans with disabilities. More recently, I earned a M.A. in clinical psychology at BGSU in 2021 (Thesis: Food-Specific and General Cognitive Control Variables Moderate Relations Between Emotion Dysregulation and Eating Pathology: Cross-Sectional Findings in an Online Community Sample of Adults with Overweight/Obesity, advised by Abby L. Braden, Ph.D.), passed my Ph.D. candidacy examination in April 2023, and proposed my dissertation (Dissertation: Examining Sociocultural and Minority Stress Models in Relation to Thinness- and Muscularity-Oriented Eating and Body Image Disturbances: A Longitudinal Study in a Community Sample of Sexual Minority Men from the United States, advised by Abby L. Braden, Ph.D.) in August 2023. I was a 2023 Research Fellow at the Center of Excellence for Eating Disorders, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (advised by Cynthia M. Bulik, Ph.D., FAED, Liselotte Peterson, Ph.D., Laura Thornton, Ph.D., and Hunna J. Watson, Ph.D.). Recently, I matched for Predoctoral Clinical Internship in the Eating Disorders Track at the Center of Excellence for Eating Disorders, Department of Psychiatry, The University of North Carolina School of Medicine.

At BGSU, I work in Finding Balance in Emotions and Eating. To learn more about my research program, please see Research.