Graduate Faculty

Corlice Petersen Brooke Learning communities; faculty development in teaching and learning; scholarship of teaching; sexuality education for children; student learning theory.
Mary Jane Brotherson Self-determination for young children with disabilities; Interventions for families having young children with disabilities; Development of family and professional partnerships with families of children with disabilities; Family supports and services in early intervention, Family support policy; and outdoor play for young children with disabilities. 
Karen Colbert Parenting; early intervention; teacher development and supervision; early childhood education.
Christine C. Cook Housing and family policy, particularly low-income and special needs populations; Hunger and housing among rural Latinos;  Rural development and housing; Community resources and risk/resiliency in aging adults; Self-determination, environment and children with disabilities; Childcare policy, environment,and child obesity.
Sedahlia Jasper Crase Parenting; parent-child relations; parent education; teen pregnancy and parenting; giftedness; foster care and adoption training evaluation; middle school stress.
Dianne C. Draper Infant development.
Cynthia Needles Fletcher Structural influences on family economic well- being; poverty and social welfare policy issues; family policy analysis and program evaluation.
Steve Garasky Public assistance program participation; welfare dependency; child support enforcement; social policy; program evaluation; migration across the life cycle; Food security; Latino in-migration; Non-residential father involvement; Assistance program interactions; Barriers to employment; Rural economic issues, childhood obesity.
Kimberly Greder Family resiliency, especially as it relates to families experiencing poverty and food insecurity; parenting education; family policy and advocacy. 
Susan Hegland Early care and education programs; outcomes of teacher-child interactions; staff training and teacher development; early mathematics learning, perceived control and children's academic achievement.
Tahira K Hira Impact of employer provided financial education on employee satisfaction with their finances and loyalty, impact of employer provided retirement planning education on satisfaction during retirement. Socio-psychological aspects of financial behavior-borrowing, impulsive and compulsive buying. Consumer bankruptcies; underlying causes and policy implications and business practices (research in these two broad areas has been conducted in U.S.A., Canada, Japan, and Scotland); gambling among students and adults: Impact on family financial well-being and family relations.
Cathy Hockaday At-risk youth; substance use prevention; dropout prevention programs; teen pregnancy and parenting; early childhood education and care; parent education; staff training and teacher development; parenting; parent-child relations; middle school stress.
Kere Hughes Adolescent parenting and early indicators of child neglect; parent-child interaction measurement with infant and toddlers; unifying early childhood education and special education for infants and toddlers; intervention fidelity and effects.
Kyle L. Kostelecky The examination, through a life span perspective, the networks and systems of healthy family and intergenerational relationships including roles and responsibilities, functions and expectations, and the maintenance of these relationships.
Jacques D. Lempers Stress, coping and mental health; adolescence.
Brenda Lohman

Successful academic, physical, psychosocial, and sexual adjustment of adolescents, especially economically disadvantaged minorities; poverty and welfare reform; family dynamics; the family-school connection; family and ecological systems theories; applied or policy-relevant research.
Gayle Luze Developing and evaluating effectiveness of interventions for children with disabilities, Effective use of assessment and progress monitoring for young children at-risk and who have disabilities, Early literacy skill development.
Jennifer Margrett Adult development and aging; everyday problem solving; collaboration; health and functioning; married couples.
Peter Martin Adaptation of the oldest-old; personality, life events and coping; mental health and aging.
Susan P. Maude Early intervention and early childhood special education; infusing family and cultural, linguistic and ability diversity within personnel preparation program in early childhood; evaluation of national, state, and local initiatives or personnel preparation programs in early childhood.
Janet Melby Family processes, parent-child interaction; development of instrumental competence; substance use and abuse; emerging adulthood; life-span development, observational research methodology.
Megan Murphy Therapeutic process and outcome; power in couples relationships, therapist-client relationships, and supervisor-therapist relationships; clinical supervision; training therapists to be attentive to context/diversity.
Carla Peterson Inclusion of children with special needs into regular education and community settings; social development of young children with special needs; application of  ecobehavioral assessment techniques, program evaluation, intervention implementation and integrity; home visit interventions; Early Head Start Evaluations.
Daniel Russell Social support, loneliness, and health; causal attributions and perceptions of social support; measurement theory and research; structural equation modeling; multilevel regression analysis; missing data.
Patricia Swanson Impact of financial education on participants' knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors.
Margaret Torrie Assessment strategies for FCS national standards; Career Redirection: Increasing FCS teacher capacity through graduate study. Implications of service learning.
K.A.S. Wickrama Advanced methods for social and behavioral research; Influences of socioeconomic status, work,  race/ethnicity, family and community on physical and mental health of youth and adults; Health of immigrants; International health and development, Early Adversity and Health, Mental Health Consequences of Tsunami.
Mary Yearns Housing for the aging and people with disabilities; universal design and home accessibility; smart-house technologies.