| NAME/DEPARTMENT |
AREAS OF EXPERTISE |
Adams, Elizabeth
Arnold School of Public Health |
pediatric obesity prevention, healthful dietary patterns, health inequities |
Adlof, Suzanne
Arnold School of Public Health
Communication Sciences & Disorders |
reading development and disorders;
language development and disorders;
reading comprehension;
word learning;
early identification and intervention |
Alexander, Bree
College of Social Work |
trauma intervention and recovery; school shootings (mass and/or collective trauma); school mental health; mental health with children and adolescents;
spirituality and faith in coping |
Armstrong, Bridget
Arnold School of Public Health
Exercise Science |
childhood obesity prevention/intervention, pediatric sleep, physical activity, sedentary behavior, parenting, parent child interactions, parent health |
Ascetta, Kate
College of Education
Educational Studies |
early childhood, special education, professional development, language development, implementation science |
Augustine, Jennifer
College of Arts and Sciences
Sociology |
intergenerational relations, maternal parenting, family demography, socioeconomic disparities in child health and achievement |
Becker, Kim
College of Arts and Sciences
Psychology |
evidence-based treatments, school-based services, mental health systems, treatment engagement, clinical decision-making, modular interventions |
Beets, Michael
Arnold School of Public Health
Exercise Science |
measurement of Physical Activity, Parent influence on children’s activity, Afterschool Programs, Children with Disabilities, Statistics |
Blake, Christine
Arnold School of Public Health
Health Promotion, Education & Behavior |
nutrition; food choice; food schema; food insecurity; food context; family meals; qualitative research |
Boghossian, Nansi
Arnold School of Public Health
Epidemiology & Biostatistics |
perinatology, preterm birth, birth defects, pregnancy complications, epidemiology |
Booze, Rose
College of Arts and Sciences
Psychology |
pediatric AIDS, prenatal drug abuse and early environmental exposures to toxins, neurological effects of childhood abuse and animal models of neurodevelopmental disorders |
Bradshaw, Jessica
College of Arts and Sciences
Psychology |
autism spectrum disorders (ASD); early identification and intervention; infant development; neonatal neurobehavior; social communication; parent-infant interaction; visual attention and eye tracking |
Brian, Ali
College of Education
Physical Education |
motor development; adapted physical activity/education; gross motor skill developmental delay; physical activity |
Brown, Michelle
College of Arts and Sciences |
developmental psychopathology, developmental trajectories among children and adolescents, resiliency |
Burkart, Sarah
Arnold School of Public Health |
understanding the individual, family, social, and environmental factors that contribute to children's sleep health; developing and testing novel intervention strategies to enhance children's health and well-being |
Burrow, John
College of Arts and Sciences
Criminology & Criminal Justice |
juvenile delinquency, elderly offenders |
Cai, Bo
Arnold School of Public Health
Epidemiology & Biostatistics |
model selection, nonparametric modeling, multivariate analysis, survival analysis in areas of reproductive epidemiology, child health and toxicology, environmental health, longitudinal data analysis |
Carlson, Ryan
College of Education
Educational Studies |
relationship education, couples, intimate partner violence, parents of children with special needs. |
Church, Chistopher
School of Law |
child welfare, data analysis |
Cox, Christina
College of Pharmacy |
pediatric pharmacy; neonatal and pediatric ICU medication safety; pediatric medication education; pharmacy education |
Crompton-Lilly, Catherine
College of Education |
literacy in families; qualitative longitudinal research with children and families, literacy practices/learning for children in historically underserved families and communities |
Crouch, Elizabeth
Arnold School of Public Health |
adverse childhood experiences; rural health |
D'Amico, Leigh
College of Education
Research, Evaluation, and Measurement Center |
early childhood education; student assessment; and utilization-focused evaluation |
Dail, Robin
College of Nursing |
infant; neonatal; thermoregulation; body temperature; hypothermia; observational methods |
Dawes, Molly
College of Education
Educational Studies |
early adolescence, peer social dynamics, bullying and peer victimization, teacher attunement, teacher management of peer social dynamics, social goals |
Dawson, Robin
College of Nursing |
Patient-provider communication; interprofessional communication; language discordance; mHealth; simulation; asthma and other respiratory conditions; pediatric primary care |
Decker, Scott
College of Arts and Sciences
Psychology |
neuropsychological assessment, diagnostic decision making, academic assessment, development, evolutionary psychology; primate cognition and comparative methodologies in applications to child cognitive development, ADHD, TBI, learning disabilities |
DeHart, Dana
College of Social Work |
violence; victims; incarceration; crime; juvenile delinquency; victim services; mixed methods; qualitative methods; substance abuse; mental health |
Dhunjishah, Michelle
School of Law
Children's Law Center |
children and youth in foster care, at-risk children, children in crisis, child maltreatment, child abuse and neglect, public policy related to children |
Dickenson, Tammiee
College of Education
Research, Evaluation, and Measurement Center |
applied statistics, multilevel analysis, quasi-experimental design, program evaluation, assessment development, measurement |
DiStefano, Christine
College of Education
Educational Studies |
survey & test construction, structural equation modeling, assessing emotional and behavioral development of school aged children |
Dominguez, Vanessa
College of Education
Educational Studies |
stress and coping; parental and family adjustment |
Edmunds, Sarah
College of Arts and Sciences |
evidence-based interventions for autism spectrum disorder |
Fairchild, Amanda
College of Arts and Sciences
Psychology |
intersection of mediation and moderation models and how the integration of these models aids in program evaluation; effect size measures for mediation, measurement and evaluation of programs and outcomes; mediation in discrete time survival data; event history models. |
Farber, Naomi
College of Social Work |
field research; anthropoligical studies- qualitative methods; poverty and families; family formation; teenage pregnancy; child development; survey development; AIDS education and prevention |
Fitton, Lisa
Arnold School of Public Health
Communication Sciences & Disorders |
english language learners; bilingualism; cultural and linguistic diversity; language and literacy development; assessment; statistics; quantitative methodology |
Flory, Kate
College of Arts and Sciences
Psychology
Parenting & Family Research Center |
childhood ADHD and risk for substance use/abuse and other health-risk behaviors; understanding and intervening to improve social impairment among children with ADHD; epidemiology of mental health concerns among children and adolescents |
Fram, Maryah
College of Social Work |
consult conceptualizing inequality and stratification; social capital; youth development; early childhood |
Frongillo, Edward
Arnold School of Public Health
Health Promotion, Education & Behavior |
food insecurity and nutrition; parenting and family stress; child feeding, growth, and development; policy and program development, implementation, and evaluation |
Googe, Heather
College of Education
Child Development Research Center |
early childhood special education |
Grant, Michael
College of Education
Educational Studies |
technology-enhanced learning environments; online teaching and learning; teaching and learning with mobile devices; inquiry; project-based learning; problem-based learning; instructional design; curriculum development; STEM |
Greenlaw, June
Research Consortium on Children and Families |
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Gupta-Kagan, Josh
School of Law |
child welfare, child protection, juvenile justice |
Harbour, Kristin
College of Education |
development and implementation of interventions and innovative instructional practices that lead to improved mathematical understanding for all students; students at risk for mathematical difficulties; support systems general and special education teachers’ mathematics content knowledge and pedagogical content knowledge; co-teaching practices; innovative pre-service teacher preparation |
Hardin, James
Arnold School of Public Health
Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics |
correlated data analysis, software development, measurement error |
Harrison, Sayward
College of Arts and Sciences
Psychology |
pediatrics; resilience; HIV; adolescent sexual health; vaccination; school-based health interventions; mobile health interventions |
Harrod, Steven
College of Arts and Sciences
Psychology |
how prenatal nicotine exposure alters drug motivated behavior in offspring; if novel drugs have the ability to decrease drug taking behaviors; and whether the sex of the animal influences various drug effects |
Hartnett, Caroline
College of Arts and Sciences
Sociology |
family demography, intergenerational relationships, transition to adulthood, unintended pregnancy, family and social inequality |
Hock, Robert
College of Social Work |
autism spectrum disorder, parenting, family-system interventions, coparenting |
Hudac, Caitlin
College of Arts and Sciences |
understanding the social brain; neurodevelopmental disorders; addressing disparities |
Iachini, Aidyn
College of Social Work |
positive youth development, school mental health, school improvement, youth physical activity and sport, leadership and administration within youth-serving organizations, motivational interviewing with students, dropout prevention strategies, after school programs |
Irvin, Matthew
College of Education
Educational Studies |
rural youth, youth with disabilities, academic development, social-emotional development, risk and resilience, motivation, peer relations, bullying and aggression |
JaJa, Cheedy
College of Nursing |
sickle cell disease, pain management, newborn screening, pharmacogenetics, psychiatric and mental health |
Jones, Sonya
Arnold School of Public Health
Center for Research in Nutrition & Health Disparities |
nutrition policy, household and community food security, sustainable food systems, childhood obesity prevention, food assistance programs |
Kim, Jaeseung
College of Social Work |
work and family balance, low-income working parents, child-care giving, early child education |
Klusek, Jessica
Arnold School of Public Health
Communication Sciences & Disorders |
autism, fragile x syndrome, fragile x carriers, neurodevelopmental disabilities, social communication, pragmatic language, physiology |
Kunz, Gina
College of Education
Educational Studies |
family-school partnerships; academic and behavioral challenges, instruction and intervention; behavioral consultation; conjoint behavioral consultation; school-based behavioral health |
Li, Xiaoming
Arnold School of Public Health
Health Promotion, Education & Behavior |
resilience, health psychology, health behavior, mental health |
Limberg, Dodie
College of Education
Educational Studies |
school counseling, STEM, student outcomes, social/emotional development |
Liu, Jihong
Arnold School of Public Health
Epidemiology & Biostatistics |
maternal obesity, reproductive and perinatal epidemiology; physcial activity; international health, fetal origins of chronic diseases |
Lizarraga, Sofia
College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Biological Sciences |
stem cells, autism, neurodevelopmental disorders |
Mactutus, Charles
College of Arts and Sciences
Psychology |
drug abuse neurotoxicity, addictive processes, NeuroAIDS, pediatric AIDS |
Maydeu-Olivares, Alberto
College of Arts and Sciences
Psychology |
structural equation modeling and item response theory (IRT) |
McDermott, Suzanne
Arnold School of Public Health
Epidemiology & Biostatistics |
maternal and child epidemiology; study design; disabilities |
McKeown, Robert
Arnold School of Public Health
Epidemiology & Biostatistics |
psychiatric epidemiology in children and adolescents; perinatal epidemiology; epidemiologic methods; public health and research ethics |
McLain, Alex
Arnold School of Public Health
Epidemiology & Biostatistics |
survival analysis, longitudinal analysis, statistical methods in fecundity/infertility, analyzing labor duration curves |
McQuillin, Sam
College of Arts and Sciences
Psychology |
motivational interviewing, youth mentoring, positive youth development |
Metcalfe, Christi
College of Arts and Sciences
Criminology & Criminal Justice |
criminal and delinquent behavior over the life courses, juvenile justice |
Miller, Bridget
College of Education
Instruction & Teacher Education |
science education, special education, engineering design/education, assistive technology, early childhood |
Mitchell, Murray
College of Education
Department of Physical Education & Athletic Training |
socialization; program evaluation; teacher education; physical education; physical activity; systematic observation |
Moore, Spencer
Arnold School of Public Health
Health Promotion, Education & Behavior |
social capital; social networks; stress process; intergenerational influences; sleep; health |
Nada, Goodrum
College of Arts and Sciences |
family- and community-level risk and protective factors for youth well-being among families affected by major stressors; promoting child and adolescent health; preventing the intergenerational transmission of risk |
Narasimhan, Meera
School of Medicine
Neuropsychiatry & Behavioral Science |
clinical, multidisciplinary, policy research |
Nesbitt, Danielle
College of Education
Physical Education |
functional motor competence, lifespan, pedagogy |
Newman-Norlund, Roger
Arnold School of Public Health
Exercise Science |
Development and testing of computer-based assessment/training protocols for social skills in clinical populations (autism, ADHD, ODD). Development of community based teamwork camps for children. |
Ohrt, Jonathan
College of Education
Educational Studies |
school counseling, wellness, social and emotional development, adolescent and emerging adult adjustment |
Ostermann, Jan
Arnold School of Public Health |
health preferences; improving wellbeing of children in adversity; estimating costs of health behaviors; informing health care supply and regulation |
Ozturk, Orgul
Moore School of Business
Division of Research |
obesity; welfare programs; nutrition; minimum wages; female labor prospects; promotion; public policy analysis; labor economics; health economics |
Palomares, Melanie
College of Arts and Sciences
Psychology |
Visual perception and attentional selection, perceptual organization, subitizing, letter recognition, visual development in typically-and atypically-developing children, visual-evoked potentials (VEPs) |
Pate, Russell
Arnold School of Public Health
Exercise Science |
physical activity and physical fitness in children and the health implications of physical activity |
Patterson, Elizabeth
School of Law |
social legislation and policy, child support enforcement, welfare, child abuse & neglect, juvenile justice |
Poulain, Fabienne
College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Biological Sciences |
nervous system development |
Prinz, Ron
College of Arts and Sciences
Psychology |
population-based strategies for parenting support/intervention; prevention science; prevention of children’s social, emotional, behavioral, and health problems; family and school-based interventions; healthy lifestyle in young children |
Rao, Vasanthi
College of Education
Child Development Research Center |
assessment, special education, measurement, comparative international education and big data |
Raynor, Phyllis
College of Nursing |
parents, self-care, self-management, substance use disorder, addiction, mental health |
Roberts, Jane
College of Arts and Sciences
Psychology |
fragile X syndrome, physiological arousal modulation, mood and anxiety disorders in adults, temperament, autism. |
Ross, Robbie
College of Education
Educational Studies |
early childhood cognitive development; executive function, attention modulation, self-regulation, and children’s self-awareness of these skills, meta-cognition, learning mechanisms, and event processing |
Roth, Benjamin
College of Social Work |
immigrant youth and families; transition of immigrant youth to adulthood and process of integration in high-poverty suburbs, social service providers working with immigrant youth and families |
Schatz, Jeff
College of Arts and Sciences
Psychology |
cognition in children; neuropsychology, ERP and structural MRI of the brain. |
Seay, Kristen
College of Social Work |
parental/caregiver substance abuse; child welfare; prevention of child abuse and neglect; family well-being |
Shapiro, Cheri
College of Social Work
Institute for Families in Society |
evidence-based parenting interventions; implementation; prevention of maladaptive outcomes in youth including maltreatment, delinquency, and obesity; peer relationships |
Sheth, Amit
College of Engineering and Computing |
artificial intelligence; semantic web; physical/loT-Cyer-Social-Clinical big data; augmented personalized health; AI and big data applications in health, life sciences, social good, disaster management, etc. |
Starrett, Angie
College of Education
Educational Studies |
structural equation modeling, person-oriented approaches, longitudinal models, rural youth, adolescent peer relationships |
Stevens, Tia
College of Arts and Sciences
Criminology & Criminal Justice |
juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, female offending, disproportionate minority contact, gender, race, qualitative methods, quantitative methods |
Stodden, David
College of Education
Physical Education |
youth physical activity and obesity, youth physical development and assessment validation |
Suski, Emily
School of Law |
family, disability, education, feminist theory, interdisciplinary collaboration and education |
Sutphin, Suzanne
College of Social Work
Center for Child & Family Studies |
research methods including survey research, document analysis, and experimental social psychology |
Swan, Suzanne
College of Arts and Sciences
Psychology |
interpersonal violence and aggression, with a focus on two main areas: interventions to prevent violence, particularly among college populations |
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Twiss, Jeff
College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Biological Sciences |
molecular neurobiology, neural development, neural repair, axon growth |
Utter, Karen
College of Education
School Improvement Council |
family and community engagement; school improvement |
Wade-Woolley, Lesly
Arnold School of Public Health
Communication Sciences & Disorders |
reading, spelling, literacy, dyslexia, language impairment |
Walsemann, Katrina
Arnold School of Public Health
Health Promotion, Education & Behavior |
social determinants of health; race and class inequalities; educational inequalities and health; cumulative adversity; health over the life course; longitudinal and multi-level analysis |
Wandersman, Abe
College of Arts and Sciences
Psychology |
empowerment evaluation, substance abuse prevention with youth, teen pregnancy prevention, underage drinking prevention, positive youth development |
Weaver, Glenn
Arnold School of Public Health
Exercise Science |
youth, physical activity, healthy eating and physical activity measurement |
Webber, Kristina
College of Social Work |
school social work; school-based interventions; school-family-community partnerships; racial/ethnic disparities in education; racial/ethnic identity; school engagement; dropout prevention; leadership within youth, program evaluation, measurement, structural equation modeling |
Webster, Collin
College of Education
Offrice of Research Innovation |
comprehensive school physical activity program, physical activity, physical education, children, teaching, professional development, teacher education, preservice teachers, inservice teachers, classroom teachers |
Weist, Mark
College of Arts and Sciences
Psychology |
school mental health; positive behavior intervention and support; youth family engagement and empowerment; evidence-based practice; interdisciplinary and cross-systems collaboration; policy influence |
Werfel, Krystal
Arnold School of Public Health
Communication Sciences & Disorders |
spoken language and written language, spoken language and literacy, interventions to improve clinical and educational outcomes for children with language development challenges, emergent and early literacy acquisition in children with language impairment and/or hearing loss. |
Wilson, Dawn
College of Arts and Sciences
Psychology |
health outcomes (blood pressure, diabetes, cardiovascular); underserved populations (incl. minorities, women, low income); nutrition; physical activity; environmental factors, theoretical approaches for promoting health behavior change in underserved minorities. |
Wolfe, Katie
College of Education
Educational Studies |
autism, language, communication, applied behavior analysis, single-case research |
Workman, Lauren
Arnold School of Public Health |
Evaluation, implementation science, community engagement, qualitative research methods, maternal and child health |
Xu, Yanfeng
College of Social Work |
child abuse and neglect; parenting & grandparenting; child mental health/behavioral health; kinship care and foster care; international child protection |
Yang, Chih-Hsiang "Jason"
Arnold School of Public Health
Exercise Science |
Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior, Mindfulness, Ecological Momentary Assessment, Ambulatory Assessment, mHealth |
Yeargin, Susan
Arnold School of Public Health
Exercise Science |
youth, adolescent, pediatric, sport, athletics, activity, hydration behaviors, thermoregulation, heat illness, concussion, medical emergencies, prevention, policy |
Yell, Mitch
College of Education
Educational Studies |
special education law, education law, classroom management, Involving families of students with disabilities in special education program development |
Zarrett, Nicole
College of Arts and Sciences
Psychology |
role of out-of-school activities in promoting healthy developmental pathways; promotion of healthy behaviors and attitudes, adolescent obesity prevention and intervention ; effects of community, school, family, peers, and personal factors, on youth choices, motivation, and adjustment; multilevel systems theory and the coupling of variable- and pattern-centered methodological approaches to maximize understanding of youth in context; conceptualization of developmental stability and change |
