Ana Bridges has been reappointed as the Provost's Faculty Resource Fellow through June 2026. Faculty can book time with her for assistance with workplace questions, concerns or disagreements.

Bridges was first appointed as the inaugural Provost's Faculty Resource Fellow in October 2024.  As part of this fellowship, she works closely with the Office for Faculty Affairs to address faculty concerns and helps identify practical solutions for resolving personnel and workplace issues.  In addition, she conducts on-demand professional development workshops for departments on managing conflict, having difficult conversations, and other related skills. Department chairs/heads may contact Ana Bridges or Anna Zajicek to request a visit to their department.

Faculty members can book time with Bridges today or contact her directly at abridges@uark.edu for more information.

More about Bridges

Bridges is a licensed psychologist and a distinguished professor in the Department of Psychological Science, where she also serves as the director for the clinical psychology doctoral program. Bridges has been a faculty member at the U of A since 2007.

Her research focuses on increasing access to needed behavioral health care for vulnerable, underserved populations, people with low economic resources, incarcerated women and people who have been victims of crimes. She has been principal investigator or co-investigator on several federal grants and published over 120 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters.

In addition, Bridges has served on several departmental and college committees, including committees involving personnel and fiscal planning. She has participated in the UA ENGAGE program (2023-2024) and the UA Chancellor's Leaders program (2022-2023). She has held leadership positions in national organizations, including treasurer (2022-2023) and president (2024) of the National Latinx Psychological Association, and finance committee member (2021-2023) and executive director search committee member (2024) for the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies.

Bridges earned her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Rhode Island. She received her master's degree in clinical psychology from Illinois State University and her bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

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