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Steven Abrams
Professor of Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Dell Medical School
sabrams@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 495 4700
Expertise: pediatrics, mineral requirements of children of all ages, growth of preterm infants and the use of specialized nutritional practices,
Aprile D Benner
Professor, Department of Human Development and Family Sciences, College of Natural Sciences
abenner@prc.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1964
Expertise: Human development; adolescence and young childhood; social, emotional, and cognitive growth and maturation of young people
Molly S Bray
Department Chair, Nutritional Sciences, College of Natural Sciences
mbray@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 3958
Expertise: Child and Adolescent Health, Epigenetics, Health & Medicine, Nutritional Sciences
Catherine Calder
Professor, College of Natural Sciences
calder@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 475 8802
Expertise: Spatial statistics, Bayesian modeling and computation, and statistical network analysis. Focused on applications in the environmental, social, and health sciences.
Cindy I Carlson
Professor, Department of Educational Psychology, College of Education
ccarlson@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 4155
Expertise: Active in current healthcare reform endeavors, studies integrated behavioral health, attachment theory, and consultation theories and processes such as home-school partnership and family-centered treatment.
Shannon E Cavanagh
Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts
scavanagh@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 8319
Expertise: Families, Family Demography, Life Course & Human Development, Gender, Interpersonal Relationships, Adolescents, Young Adulthood during economic/cultural change, Family relationships, Census, Race/Ethnicity and Family change
Jane D Champion
Professor, School of Nursing
jdchampion@mail.nur.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 8208
Expertise: STI/HIV, substance abuse, adolescent and womens health, unintended pregnancy, interpersonal violence
Jessica A Church-Lang
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, College of Liberal Arts
church@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 475 7009
Expertise: Brain networks, development of task control, development of reading, developmental disorders, neuroimaging
North Cooc
Associate Professor, Department of Special Education, College of Education
ncooc@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 7923
Expertise: Explores how family background, culture, and school contextual factors influence decisions and trajectories within special education.
Robert L Crosnoe
Senior Associate Dean for Research, College of Liberal Arts
crosnoe@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 8329
Expertise: Life Course & Human Development, Children & Youth, Education, Health, Family, Immigration, Adolescents.
Catherine Cubbin
Associate Dean for Research, School of Social Work
ccubbin@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 0625
Expertise: Social epidemiology; social inequalities in health; neighborhood environments and health; public health
Jaimie N Davis
Professor, Department of Nutritional Sciences, College of Natural Sciences
jaimie.davis@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 0971
Expertise: child and adolescent health, nutritional sciences, obesity, behaviour
Michele Y Deitch
Distinguished Senior Lecturer, Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs
michele.deitch@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 2562, +1 512 296 7212
Expertise: juvenile justice; prison reform; crime and criminal justice
Toni Falbo
Professor, Department of Educational Psychology, College of Education
toni@prc.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 0603, +1 512 471 8020
Expertise: Falbo uses both quantitative and qualitative methodologies to address problems in education and health. She is an internationally recognized expert on only children, including their academic, social, emotional, and health outcomes. Falbo is also an expert on conducting cross-cultural research and research aimed at improving the education of ethnic minorities in the U.S.
Cynthia G Franklin
Professor, School of Social Work
cfranklin@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 0533
Expertise: School mental health, Solution-focused Brief Therapy, dropout prevention, at-risk youth, research on how to design schools that promote achievement and a safe, respectful and violent free culture.
Elizabeth T Gershoff
Director, Population Research Center, Department of Human Development and Family Sciences, College of Natural Sciences
liz.gershoff@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 4800
Expertise: Child and youth development; adolescence; parenting; parental discipline; violence; early childhood education
William R Kelly
Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts
wkelly@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 4142
Expertise: Criminal Justice/Criminology/Ecology of Crime, Program and Policy Research and Evaluation, Research Methodology and Statistics
Su Yeong Kim
Professor, Department of Human Development and Family Sciences, College of Natural Sciences
su.yeong.kim@utexas.edu
+1 512 471 5524, +1 512 475 6014
Expertise: Development of children of immigrants in the United States, with a focus on children of Chinese and Mexican origin; parenting; parent-child relationships
Leigh L Linden
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, College of Liberal Arts
leigh.linden@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 475 8556
Expertise: Economic development; poor countries; economics of education
Molly A Lopez
Research Associate Professor, Office of the Associate Dean for Research
mlopez@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 0614
Expertise: mental health services, evidence-based practice, trauma-informed care, cognitive behavioral therapies, workforce competency, systems of care.
Alexandra Loukas
Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies, College of Education
alexandra.loukas@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 9388
Expertise: Focuses on adolescent and young adult problem behavior development, and tobacco use and cessation.
Mark F O'Reilly
Department Chair, Department of Special Education, College of Education
markoreilly@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: Assesses and supports individuals with intellectual disabilities and develops social skill/communication interventions for children with ASD.
Keryn E Pasch
Associate Professor, Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, College of Education
kpasch@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 8295
Expertise: Examines the relation between marketing influence on youth and young adult risk behavior such as substance use, nutrition, sleep and energy drink consumption.
Sarah R Powell
Professor, Department of Special Education, College of Education
srpowell@utexas.edu
+1 512 475 6556
Expertise: Develops and tests interventions for students with mathematics difficulties, emphasizing word-problem solving, mathematics writing, data-based decision making, and the vocabulary within mathematics.
Donna L Rew
Professor, School of Nursing
ellerew@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 7595, +1 512 471 7941
Expertise: Adolescent health, sexual health practices of homeless youth, sexual abuse and long-term sequelae, education for underserved populations, intuition in decision-making
Catherine Riegle-Crumb
Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education
riegle@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 2388, +1 512 475 8642
Expertise: Focuses on the social construction of gender and racial/ethnic inequality in educational opportunities and experiences in STEM fields from a sociological perspective. Methodological expertise in quantitative research methods and analyses of large scale datasets.
Erin M Rodriguez
Associate Professor, Department of Educational Psychology, College of Education
erodriguez@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 0283
Spanish Speaker
Expertise: Dr. Erin Rodríguez studies family, sociocultural, and contextual influences on childrens development and health outcomes, with a focus on understanding and reducing health disparities affecting low-SES Latinx youth.
Stephen Russell
Director, School of Human Ecology, Department of Human Development and Family Sciences, College of Natural Sciences
stephen.russell@utexas.edu
+1 512 471 0753, +1 512 471 8391
Expertise: Adolescent sexuality; LGBT youth; parent-adolescent relationships; childhood development
Allison Skerrett
Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education
askerrett@utexas.edu
+1 512 232 4883
Expertise: Focuses on secondary English and literacy education in urban contexts, including among transnational youth.
Mary A Steinhardt
Professor, Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, College of Education
msteinhardt@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 3535
Expertise: Focuses on how individuals successfully adapt to stress and build health resilience.
Marie-Anne Suizzo
Associate Professor, Department of Educational Psychology, College of Education
msuizzo@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 0379, +1 512 471 4155
Expertise: Studies how cultural beliefs and values shape parent-child relationships, parental socialization, and children's and adolescents' development and learning.
Elizabeth Swanson
Research Professor, Department of Special Education, College of Education
easwanson@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 2320
Expertise: All of my work focuses on developing and testing for efficacy literacy practices for struggling readers.
This includes:
* infusing literacy practices into elementary and middle school content area classes;
* empowering parents to provide reading support to their own children;
* providing intervention to struggling readers;
* translating research to practice for teachers;
* designing effective professional development;
* translating research into usable products for parents.
Fatima A Varner
Associate Professor, Department of Human Development and Family Sciences, College of Natural Sciences
fvarner@utexas.edu
+1 512 471 8580
Expertise: adolescene and young adulthood, human development, culture, parenting and caregiving
Patrick P Wong
Associate Professor, Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs
patwong@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 8962
Expertise: social policy, family and child welfare, children services, mental health, poverty issues, housing, community development
David S Yeager
Professor, Department of Psychology, College of Liberal Arts
dyeager@utexas.edu
Expertise: Social-cognitive development during adolescence; Motivation; Behavior change; Aggression and bullying; Research methodology and psychological measurement; Psychological interventions
Cara Young
Associate Professor, School of Nursing
cyoung@mail.nur.utexas.edu
Expertise: Child and adolescent health; adolescent mental health promotion and prevention; mindfulness; mental health stigma; provision of primary health care