Professor of Psychology

Office
North Building, Room 200
(810) 989-5704
jmazzara@sc4.edu

• M.S., Clinical Psychology, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti
• B.S., Psychology, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti
• A.A., General Studies, Macomb Community College, Warren

Interests

• An avid reader of everything from the latest psychology journals to spy novels and Games Magazine.
• Plays acoustic guitar and mandolin in a jug band and sings in the “world’s worst church choir."
• Lifelong car nut who has owned a Triumph Spitfire, a Porsche 944, a Camaro and a Dodge Shelby Charger Turbo.
• In the 1990s, raced in Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) Solo Racing events.
• A writer who has published two books and several magazine articles. The first book was a memoir (told through the timeline of each car that he has owned since he was 17 years old) called Pedal Cars & Purple Pickles. The second book is Liberty Ship Survivor, the true story of a St. Clair Shores man who during WWII was stranded for 22 days in a lifeboat in the Indian Ocean after his liberty ship was sunk by a German U-boat. His writing has been published in Acoustic Guitar Magazine, The Michigan Catholic, and The Open Exhaust, and he is currently in the process of writing his first novel.
• Takes great pleasure in solving difficult cryptic crosswords with wife Cindy.