Dr. Croom is a faculty member in the Department of Cognitive and Information Sciences at the University of California, Merced. He's Guest Associate Editor for the Language Sciences Special Issue on Slurs (2015), Guest Associate Editor for the Frontiers in Psychology Special Issue on Music and the Embodied Mind (2015), an Editorial Board Member for Data in Brief (2019-2020), and reviewer for Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Academic Press, Routledge, and over 75 scholarly journals. Dr. Croom has published over two dozen articles and been cited over 996 times since 2010. Scholarly journals that Dr. Croom has reviewed for inc…
Dr. Croom is a faculty member in the Department of Cognitive and Information Sciences at the University of California, Merced. He's Guest Associate Editor for the Language Sciences Special Issue on Slurs (2015), Guest Associate Editor for the Frontiers in Psychology Special Issue on Music and the Embodied Mind (2015), an Editorial Board Member for Data in Brief (2019-2020), and reviewer for Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Academic Press, Routledge, and over 75 scholarly journals. Dr. Croom has published over two dozen articles and been cited over 996 times since 2010. Scholarly journals that Dr. Croom has reviewed for include:
Acta Analytica: International Periodical for Philosophy in the Analytical Tradition.
Action Research.
Advances in Health Sciences Education.
Applied Psychology: Health and Wellbeing.
Armed Forces and Society.
Atlantic Journal of Communication.
Axiomathes: Where Science Meets Philosophy.
Basic and Applied Social Psychology.
Bilingualism: Language and Cognition.
BJPsych Bulletin.
BMC Psychology.
Cognition: International Journal of Cognitive Science.
Counselling Psychology Quarterly.
Criminal Justice and Behavior.
Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review.
Diametros: An Online Journal of Philosophy.
Ergo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy.
Erkenntnis: An International Journal of Scientific Philosophy.
Ethos: Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology.
Experimental Aging Research.
Frontiers in Psychology.
Group Processes and Intergroup Relations.
Health Psychology Open.
Howard Journal of Communications.
Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy.
Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power.
Information Design Journal.
Intercultural Pragmatics.
International Journal of Intercultural Relations.
International Journal of Multilingualism.
International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine.
International Journal of Strategic Communication.
International Journal of Wellbeing.
International Sociology.
ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment.
Journal of Adolescent Research.
Journal of Advanced Academics.
Journal of Applied Social Science.
Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society.
Journal of Child Language.
Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology.
Journal of Cognition and Culture.
Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence.
Journal of General Psychology.
Journal of Humanistic Psychology.
Journal of Moral Education.
Journal of Music and Meaning.
Journal of Pragmatics.
Journal of Social and Personal Relationships.
Journal of the American Philosophical Association.
Journal of Youth and Theology.
Language Matters.
Mass Communication and Society.
Media, War, and Conflict.
Mental Health, Religion, and Culture.
Musicae Scientiae: The Journal of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music.
Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment.
Organon F: An International Journal of Analytic Philosophy.
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly.
Perceptual and Motor Skills.
Philosophical Psychology.
Political Psychology.
Pragmatics and Society.
Psychology of Music.
Psychosis.
SAGE Open.
School Psychology International.
Science and Education.
South African Journal of Philosophy.
Southern Journal of Philosophy.
Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics.
Synthese: An International Journal for Epistemology, Methodology and Philosophy of Science.
Thought: A Journal of Philosophy.
Visual Studies.
Western Journal of Communication.
Dr. Croom is currently teaching the following courses at the University of California, Merced:
COGS 1: Introduction to Cognitive Science
COGS 5: Introduction to Language and Linguistics
COGS 105: Research Methods for Cognitive Scientists
COGS 149: Music, Language, and Cognition
COGS 180: Topics: Embodied Approaches to Mind and Language
COGS 180: Topics: Linguistic Data Analysis
COGS 180: Topics: Mathematical Cognition
COGS 180: Topics: Sign Language Science
COGS 180: Topics: Slurs and Stereotypes
SPRK 1: The Machine Learning Age
Dr. Croom has received numerous awards for his scholarly work including the following:
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Research Fellowship in Democracy, Constitutionalism, and Citizenship (2011-2012).
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Research Fellowship in the Humanities (2011-2012).
Elizabeth F. Flower Prize for best paper in philosophy from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania (2009-2011).
Positive Studies Prize for best paper in positive psychology from the Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania (2012-2013).
Elmaleh Prize for best paper in the social sciences from the Phi Beta Kappa Society (2010-2011).
Military Veteran’s Scholarship from the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans (2006-2012).
Journal of Pragmatics Award for Outstanding Peer Review (2018).
Publons Sentinels of Science Award for Outstanding Peer Review (2016).
Frontiers in Psychology Honoraria for Outstanding Editorial Contribution (2013).
Dr. Croom was also awarded an Air Medal from the United States Air Force for acts of heroism during aerial flight during his time of service from 2000 to 2004.
Outside of academia Dr. Croom enjoys practicing music and mixed martial arts.