Katia Paz Goldfarb
Chair
Education - Ph.D., Michigan State University; M.A., Eastern Michigan University; B.A., Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel)
Research/Interests - Examining the social issues that influence families and community life, particularly latino families and children, family diversity and the role of family and child studies in the teacher preparation
Profile - Katia Paz Goldfarb
Shannon Bellum
Department Administrator
Education - M.F.A., M.A,. Montclair State University; B.S. SUNY-Oneonta
Research/Interests - Career counseling for higher education, group processes, student life processes and development
Faculty
Tiffany Brown
Education - Ph.D., Syracuse University; M.A., B.A., Binghamton University
Research/Interests - African american families, cultural influences on parenting and family relationships, gender and intimate relationships
Profile - Tiffany Brown
Jonathan Caspi
Education - Ph.D., University at Albany, S.U.N.Y.; M.S.W., Hunter College School of Social Work, C.U.N.Y.; B.A., New York University
Research/Interests - Sibling relationships, sibling abuse, clinical and educational supervision in social work
Constance Gager
Education - Ph.D., M.A., University of Pennsylvania; M.A., University of Vermont; B.A., Clark University (Massachusetts)
Research/Interests - Predictors of relationship quality and divorce; the division of household labor, adolescent time use
Profile - Constance Gager
Pauline Garcia-Reid
Education - Ph.D., Fordham University; M.S.W., B.A., Rutgers University
Research/Interests - Culturally-grounded social work practice, latino/a emphasis, educational outcomes, youth substance use & violence prevention
Profile - Pauline Garcia-Reid
Sara Goldstein
Education - Ph.D., Bowling Green State University; M.A, Bowling Green State University-Ohio; B.A., College of New Jersey
Research/Interests - Social and cognitive development, focusing on the development of peer relationships and peer behavior during childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood. Specifically, how peer relationships and cognitions about peer relationships influence the development of aggression and other forms of problem behavior
Profile - Sara Goldstein
Lyndal Khaw
Education - Ph.D., M.S., B.S. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Research/Interests - Intimate partner violence, the process of leaving
abusive partners, changes in family relationships, family stress and
dynamics, qualitative methods
Chih-Yuan Steven Lee
Education - Ph.D., University of Minnesota; M.S., Auburn University; B.A., National Taiwan University
Research/Interests - Relationships among family financial stress, parenting, and child development; prevention intervention, depression and suicide prevention, substance abuse, cross-cultural research on family dynamics
Profile - Chih-Yuan Steven Lee
Soyoung Lee
Education - Ph.D. Virginia Tech, M.S., B.S. Seoul National University
Research/Interests - Community capacity, reciprocal influences between diverse families and communities, immigrant families, family life education, family program development and evaluation, decision making among young females
Miriam Linver
Education - Ph.D., M.S., University of Arizona; B.A., Brandeis University
Research/Interests - Family processes through which income affects children and youth, transition to young adulthood; child and adolescent time use
Profile - Miriam Linver
Olena Nesteruk
Education - Ph.D., Louisiana State University; M.S, Louisiana State University; B.S., National Agricultural University of Ukraine
Research/Interests - Immigrant families and their adaptation to a new socio-cultural environment, family stress and coping, qualitative research
Profile - Olena Nesteruk
Christine Price
Education - Ph.D., University of Georgia; M.S., University of Georgia; B.A., University of California, Irvine
Research/Interests - Women and retirement, aging family relationships and intergenerational dynamics, gender issues in later life, qualitative methods
Profile - Christine Price
Robert Reid
Education - Ph.D., Columbia University; MSW, Rutgers; B.A., Rutgers
Research/Interests - Community based participatory research, substance abuse and HIV/AIDS prevention among urban minority youth, structural and environmental interventions to prevent alcohol and tobacco use
Profile - Robert Reid
Pearl Stewart
Education - Ph.D., University of Delaware; MSSA, Case Western Reserve University; B.S., University of Delaware
Research/Interests - African-american extended families, family diversity, cultural connections between african american and west african families
Profile - Pearl Stewart
Jennifer Brown Urban
Education - Ph.D., Cornell University; MA, Cornell University; BA, Tufts University
Research/Interests - Applied developmental science; Positive youth development; Developmental Systems Theories and Systems Science; Out-of-school activity involvement and the impact on positive and negative indicators of development; Ecological and neighborhood factors as context for development; Effective means of integrating research, practice, and policy; Evaluation and program planning particularly for youth development programs, STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) programs, and public health programs
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