Department of Human Development and Family Studies

The Faculty

 

Dean of the College of Human Environmental Sciences and Professor
Stephen Jorgensen

Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Email: JorgensenS@missouri.edu
Vita

Research Interests:
• Adolescent Sexual Risk Taking
• Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention
• Marital Structure and Process
• Evaluation Research Methodology

 

Professor and
Co-Chair of the HDFS Department
Lawrence Ganong

Ph.D., University of Missouri
Email: GanongL@missouri.edu
Vita

Research Interests:
• Remarriage and stepfamilies
• Family obligations
• Family structure stereotyping
• Families and health

Professor and
Co-Chair of the HDFS Department
Jean Ispa

Ph.D., Cornell University
Email: IspaJ@missouri.edu
Vita

Research Interests:
• Parent-child and teacher-child interaction
• Early Head Start evaluation
• Family and child care in Russia

 

Curators' Professor and
Director of Graduate Studies
Marilyn Coleman

Ed.D., University of Missouri
Email: ColemanMA@missouri.edu
Vita

Research Interests:
• Remarriage and stepfamilies
• Gender issues
•Intergenerational family obligations

 

 

Associate Professor and
Director of Undergraduate Studies

Johnetta Morrison

Ed.D., Syracuse University
Email: MorrisonJ@missouri.edu
Vita

Research Interests:
• Early childhood professional development
• Parent involvement
• Early childhood care and education programming
• Cross-cultural child care and education

 

 

Professor
Mark Fine

Ph.D., Ohio State University
Email: FineM@missouri.edu
Vita

Research Interests:
• Effects of transitions on family members
• Family processes
• Social cognition
• Program evaluation

 

Professor
Michael Lambert

Ph.D., University of North Carolina
Email: LambertMC@missouri.edu
Vita

Research Interests:
• Designing and norming culturally appropriate measures
• Assessing the cultural appropriateness of existing measures
• Behavioral and emotional characteristics of Africans outside of Africa

 

 

Associate Professor
Teresa Cooney

Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
Email: CooneyT@missouri.edu
Vita

Research Interests:
• Parent-child relationships in adulthood
• Family demography
• Aging and the life course
• Adults' adjustment to divorce

 

Associate Professor
Sara Gable

Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
Email: GableS@missouri.edu
Vita

Research Interests:
• Child care provider workforce development
• Childhood overweight: Etiology and outcomes
• Development during infancy and early childhood

 

 

 

Associate Professor
Duane Rudy

Ph.D., University of Toronto
Email: RudyD@missouri.edu
Vita

Research Interests:
• Socialization processes
• Parent-child relationships
• Culture and the family
• Parental cognition



Assistant Professor
Christine Proulx

Ph.D., University of North Carolina - Greensboro
Email: ProulxC@missouri.edu
Vita

Research Interests:
- Associations between adults' close relationships and their personal well-being
- Contextual influences on adults' close relationships
- Issues of gender in family studies
- Analysis of dyads over time

 

 

Assistant Professor
Russell Ravert

Ph.D., Indiana University
Email: RavertR@missouri.edu
Vita

Research Interests:
• Child and adolescent health
• Risk beliefs and behaviors in emerging adulthood
• Technology-based psychosocial interventions

 

 

Assistant Professor
David Schramm

Ph.D., Auburn University
Email: SchrammDG@missouri.edu
Vita

Research Interests:
• Remarriages and stepfamilies
• Relationship and marriage education
• Transition to marriage and newlywed years
• Economic consequences of divorce

 

 



Child Development Lab Director
Jessie Darko

 

M.A., University of Michigan
Email: DarkoJ@missouri.edu

 

 

 

 

Child Development Lab Instructor
Erin Angst

M.A., University of Missouri, 2004
Email: AngstE@missouri.edu

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Child Development Lab Instructor
Elizabeth Geyer

M.A., University of Missouri, 1993
Email: GeyerE@missouri.edu

 

 

 

 

Child Development Lab Instructor
Karen Kelley
Email: KelleyKD@missouri.edu

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Child Development Lab Instructor
Pam Storey
Email: StoreyP@missouri.edu

 

 

 

 

 

 

Child Life Program Coordinator and Instructor
Nora Hager

M.A., CCLS, University of Missouri-Columbia
Child-Life Program and Internship Coordinator
Email: hagern@missouri.edu

Clinical practice interest areas:
- Adolescents
- Cancer
- Cystic Fibrosis
- Death and Bereavement

 

 

 

Emeritus Professor and
Director of the Center for Family Policy & Research

Kathy Thornburg

Ph.D., University of Missouri
Email: ThornburgK@missouri.edu
Vita

Research Interests:
• Parent-teacher interrelationships associated with early childhood programs
• Child care in rural communities
• Human services public policy

 

 

Director of ParentLink
Carol Mertensmeyer-Ryan

College of Human Environmental
Sciences Extension
Email: MertensmeyerC@missouri.edu
Vita (forthcoming)

 

 

 

Director of the Center for Adolescent Sexuality, Pregnancy, & Prevention

MA, MFT
Email: allenki@missouri.edu
Vita

Research Interests:

* Adolescent sexual decision making
* Adolescent pregnancy and parenting
* Healthy relationships in transition to early adulthood
* Spirituality and adolescent risk behaviors

 

Promotion, Tenure, and Post Tenure Guidelines  
Career Trajectory for Tenure Track Faculty  

The Affiliated Faculty

 

Associate Professor
Linda Bullock
University of Missouri
Sinclair School of Nursing

Ph.D., University of Otago Medical School
Email: LBullock@missouri.edu
Vita

 


 

Adjunct Faculty
Anne Deaton
University of Missouri
College of Human Environmental Sciences and the Sinclair School of Nursing

Ed.D., Virginia Tech
Email: DeatonA@missouri.edu
Vita

 


 

 

 

Research Specialist, Behavior & Education Division
Melissa Herzog
University of Missouri
Thompson Center for Autism & Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Ph.D., Arizona State University
Email: HerzogM@missouri.edu
Vita

 


 

Associate Professor and
Director of Women's and Gender Studies
Jacquelyn Litt
University of Missouri
Department of Women's and Gender Studies

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Email: LittJ@missouri.edu
Vita


 

Associate Professor
Timothy Killian
University of Arkansas
Department of Human Development, Family Sciences, and Rural Sociology

Ph.D., University of Missouri
Email: TKillian@uark.edu
Vita

 

Senior Research Analyst
Wayne Mayfield
University of Missouri
Center for Family Policy and Research

Ph.D., University of Missouri
Email: MayfieldW@missouri.edu
Vita

 

 

 

Senior Policy and Research Analyst
Judy Mumford
University of Missouri
Center for Family Policy and Research

Ph.D., University of Missouri
Email: MumfordJ@missouri.edu
Vita

 

 

Professor
Eileen Jones Porter
University of Missouri
Sinclair School of Nursing

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Email: PorterEJ@missouri.edu
Vita

 

 

 

Senior Policy and Research Analyst
Jacqueline Scott
University of Missouri
Center for Family Policy and Research

Ph.D., University of Missouri
Email: ScottJac@missouri.edu
Vita

 

 

 

 

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