She completed her Bachelor’s degree at California State University Northridge in 2006 and her Ph.D. at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles in 2011. She then spent 11 months at Brown University in Rhode Island as a Postdoctoral Fellow before joining the Jackson School in August, 2012. Whitney is a structural geologist whose research incorporates a variety of field, analytical and experimental techniques all aimed toward understanding continental deformation in both active and ancient orogenic systems. Whitney presently teaches several courses at UT, including undergraduate Structural Geology and Field Camp, as well as graduate courses Microstructures and Rock Rheology, Active Tectonics, and Tectonic Problems.