Human Development and Family Studies (HDFS) Faculty
Faculty with Courtesy and Joint and Appointments
- Paul
Amato, Ph.D. (Social Psychology), 1983, James Cook University,
Australia, Professor (primary appointment in Sociology). Marital quality,
divorce, single-parent families, parent-child relationships,
fatherhood, family relations and psychological well being,
families and gender, cross-cultural family research. E-mail: pxa6@psu.edu
- Karen
Bierman, Ph.D. (Child-Clinical Psychology), 1981, University
of Denver, Distinguished Professor (primary appointment in Psychology). Child-clinical
psychology and socio-emotional development; peer relations,
social skills for peer acceptance, and intervention programs
to facilitate social adjustment. E-mail: kb2@psu.edu
- Alan
Booth, Ph.D. (Sociology), 1966, University of Nebraska-Lincoln,
Distinguished Professor (primary appointment in Sociology with joint appointment
in HDFS). Divorce and remarriage; blended families; marital
quality; hormones and family process; adult child-parent
relations. E-mail: axb24@psu.edu
- Linda Caldwell, Ph.D.
(Recreation), 1986, University of Maryland, Professor (primary appointment in Recreation, Park, and Tourism Management), Adolescents, leisure and health; leisure education, prevention research, and the developmental affordances of leisure. E-mail: LindaC@psu.edu
- Pamela
M. Cole, Ph.D. (Psychology), 1980, Pennsylvania State
University, Professor (primary appointment in Psychology).
Emotion regulation in early childhood; relation between
emotion regulation and psychopathology; cultural differences
in socialization of emotion. E-mail: pmc5@psu.edu
- David E. Conroy, Ph.D. (Exercise and Sport Science), 2000, University of Utah, Associate Professor (primary appointment in Kinesiology).
Achievement motivation--development in early and middle childhood, and consequences across the lifespan. E-mail: dec9@psu.edu
- Celene Domitrovich, Ph.D. (Psychology), 1998, Penn State, Research Associate (primary appointment in the Prevention Center). Prevention programs and curriculum, health promotion. E-mail: cxd130@psu.edu
- Elia
E. Femia, Ph.D. (Human Development and Family Studies),
1998, Penn State, Research Associate
(primary appointment in HDFS). Alzheimer's disease caregiving;
evaluation of dementia-care programs; disability processes
in the oldest-old. E-mail: exk12@psu.edu
- Mark Feinberg, Ph.D. (Clinical Psychology), 1998, George Washington University, Senior Research Associate (primary appointment in the Prevention Research Center).
Family process (coparenting, parenting, sibling relations) and development, prevention, biology and behavior (genetics, affective neuroscience, stress-related hormones). E-mail: mef11@psu.edu
- Richard Fiene, Ph.D. (Psychology), 1978, Newport University, Associate Professor, and Professor in Charge, Psychology Program, Penn State Harrisburg (primary appointment Capital College). Child care quality; public policy research related to children, youth and families; community based research; infant development. Web site: www.hbg.psu.edu/bsed Email: rjf8@psu.edu .
- Constance
A. Flanagan, Ph.D. (Psychology),1987, University of
Michigan, Professor (primary appointment in Agricultural
and Extension Education). Cross-cultural studies of families
and adolescents, political socialization, developmental
precursors of citizenship, interethnic and interracial relations
among youth. E-mail: caf15@psu.edu
- John
W. Graham, Ph.D. (Social Psychology),1983, University
of Southern California, Professor (primary appointment in
Biobehavioral Health). Theoretical and statistical/methodological
issues relating to the development of adolescent and adult
health behavior. E-mail: jwg4@psu.edu
- Douglas
A. Granger, Ph.D. (Psychology and Social Behavior),
1990, University of California, Irvine, Professor
(primary appointment in Biobehavioral Health). Behavioral
consequences of interactions between the central nervous
and immune systems; biobehavioral correlates of children's
adrenocortical reactivity to naturalistic psychosocial challenges;
role of cytokines in the emergence of, and continuity in,
atypical child development. E-mail: dag11@psu.edu
- Linda
Higginson, D.Ed. (Counselor Education), 1981, The Pennsylvania
State University,
Vice President for Undergraduate Education and
DUS Programs Coordinator, College of Agricultural Sciences. Academic advising, support
services and programs for students, mentoring, development
and implementation of quality assessment programs. E-mail: lxh1@psu.edu
- Joyce
Hopson-King, M.S. (Counseling Psychology), 1982, Lesley
College. (Director of Diversity Enhancement Programs, College
of HHD). Academic advising and counseling, young adult education.
E-mail: juh4@psu.edu
- David
R. Johnson, Ph.D. (Sociology), 1972, Vanderbilt University,
Professior (primary appointment in Sociology). Marital quality
over the life course, family and mental health, marital
instabillity, quantitative methods for panel analysis, attrition
in panel studies, rural-urban differences in mental health,
community effects on child neglect. E-mail: drj10@psu.edu
- Valarie
King, Ph.D. (Sociology), 1993, University of Pennsylvania,
Associate Professor (primary appointment in Sociology).
Fathers and children, child well-being, divorce, religion and family behavior, grandparents and grandchildren, cohabitation among older adults. E-mail: vek1@psu.edu
- Alicia J. Knoedler, Ph.D. (Cognitive Psychology),1996, Purdue University, Associate Director, Strategic Initiatives and Research Program Development. Basic and applied aspects of memory; statistics and research methodology; grant writing. E-mail: aknoedler@psu.edu
- Jeffrey
A. Kurland, Ph.D. (Anthropology),1976, Harvard University,
Associate Professor (primary appointment in Anthropology
with joint appointment in HDFS). Evolution of social behavior;
behavioral ecology and sociobiology; human reproductive
strategies; parent-offspring interactions. E-mail: jak@psu.edu
- Lynn Liben, Ph.D. (Psychology), 1972, University of Michigan, Distinguished Professor (primary appointment in Psychology). Reseach addresses development of spatial cognition, symbolic understanding, and how these inform education in schools and museums; the development of gender and racial stereotypes; and the intersection of these two domains (e.g., sex differences in spatial skills and occupational choice). E-mail: liben@psu.edu
- Jenae M. Neiderhiser, Ph.D. (Human Development and Family Studies), 1994, Penn State, Professor (primary appointment in Psychology). Understanding the interplay between genes and environment throughout the lifespan. E-mail: jenaemn@psu.edu
- Jon
F. Nussbaum,
Ph.D. (Speech Communication), 1981, Purdue University,
Professor
(primary appointment in Communication Arts & Sciences).
Lifespan relationship change across contexts, communicative
behavior of individuals across the lifespan emphasizing
older adult, health organizations, and communication. E-mail: jfn5@psu.edu
- D.
Wayne Osgood, Ph.D. (Social Psychology), 1977, University
of Colorado at Boulder, Professor (primary appointment in
Crime, Law and Justice). Crime and delinquency; adolescent
problem behavior; juvenile justice; time use and deviance;
peer influence.E-mail: wosgood@psu.edu
- Daniel Perkins, Ph.D. (Family and Child Ecology), 1995, Michigan State University, Professor of Family and Youth Resiliency and Policy (primary appointment in Agriculture and Extension Education). Youth development, youth engagement in risk behaviors or in youth programs (sports); youth-adult partnerships; development of initiative in youth, evaluation of youth and family strength-based, intervention and/or prevention programs; intersection between prevention science and promotion; type II translational research, contextual influences on development of youth; collaboration and community development; and human ecosystems. E-mail: dfp102@psu.edu
- David
Post, Ph.D. (Comparative Education),1987, University
of Chicago, Professor (primary appointment in
Educational Policy Studies).
Cross-national variations in family structure effects on
children's well-being and school attainment; impact of public
policy on educational stratification in Latin America and
Hong Kong. E-mail: dmp10@psu.edu
- Stacy
J. Silver, Ph.D. (Sociology), 1993, Ohio State University, Associate Professor
(primary appointment in Sociology). Family structure and interaction, adult and child well-being. E-mail: sjr11@psu.edu
- Meg Small, Ph.D. (Quantitative Methods and Health Policy), 1992, University of Maryland, Research Associate (primary appointment in the Prevention Research Center). Understanding factors that allow organizaions to successfully adopt and sustain evidence-based interventions; Developing and testing methods that allow organizations to use data when making programmatic decisions. E-mail: mxs693@psu.edu
- Graham
Spanier, Ph.D. (Sociology), 1973, Northwestern University,
Professor (President of The Pennsylvania State University;
joint appointments with HDFS, Sociology, Demography, and
Family and Community Medicine). Quality and stability of
marriage across the life course; family demography; family
policy. E-Mail: spanier@psu.edu
- Elizabeth
Susman, Ph.D. (Human Development and Family Studies),
1976, The Pennsylvania State University, Professor (primary
appointment in Biobehavioral Health). Interaction of hormones
and phychological development adolescents; neuroscience of stress and coping; stress and reproduction, and adolescent obesity. E-mail: esusman@psu.edu