Christopher A Was is a Professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Kent State University. He received his B.A. in Psychology and his M.S. in Education from Indiana University South Bend, in 1996 and 2000, respectively, and completed his Ph.D. in Educational Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition at the University of Utah in 2005. He is also a member of the Association for Psychological Science, Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, Cognitive Science Society, and a Fellow of the Psychonomic Society. His research program has focused on testing different models and aspects of working memory to determine how processing limits in working memory affect complex cognitive processes such as comprehension. A second area of interest involves metacognition and student self-regulated learning.