| NAME/DEPARTMENT |
AREAS OF EXPERTISE |
Adlof, Suzanne
Communication Sciences & Disorders |
reading development and disorders;
language development and disorders;
reading comprehension;
word learning;
early identification and intervention |
Andrews, Arlene Bowers
College of Social Work |
family and community; children's mental health; housing; restorative justice; social justice, mutual support |
Apel, Kenn
Communication Sciences and Disorders |
Written language development and disorders (reading, writing, spelling); Orthographic pattern awareness development; Morphological awareness development; Spoken language development and disorders |
Barr-Anderson, Daheia
Epidemiology and Biostatistics |
Community- and home-based interventions;
Physical activity epidemiology;
Obesity and physical activity among African Americans, particularly adolescent girls;
Social and physical environmental factors |
Baxter, Suzanne Domel
Institute for Families in Society |
dietary assessment of children; methodology - quality assurance, interviews, observation; reporting accuracy |
Beets, Michael
Exercise Science |
Measurement of Physical Activity, Parent influence on children’s activity, Afterschool Programs, Children with Disabilities, Statistics |
Bell, Bethany
Educational Studies
Educational Psychology, Research and Foundations Program |
complex sample data; Cross-classified random effect models, Hierarchical linear modeling; School and neighborhood influences on education and health outcomes; Statistical methodology |
Blake, Christine
Health Promotion, Education and Behavior |
Nutrition;
Food Choice;
Food Schema;
Qualitative Research |
Booze, Rose
Psychology |
neurodevelopmental disorders |
Brown, William
Educational Psychology |
early intervention; early childhood and special education; direct observation and single subject methodology; young children's social competence; prevention and eanrly intervention for behavioral disorders |
Burrow, John
Criminology & Criminal Justice (CAS) |
juvenile delinquency, elderly offenders |
Cai, Bo
Epidemiology and Biostatistics |
model selection, nonparametric modeling, multivariate analysis, survival analysis in areas of reproductive epidemiology, child health and toxicology. |
Cooper, Shauna M
Department of Psychology, Arts and Sciences |
Socio-cultural context of development; African American child and adolescent development; Adolescent female development; Socialization practices and adolescent well-being (e.g., educational and health outcomes); racial discrimination and adolescent functioning |
Davis, Harry
School of Law
Children's Law Center |
juvenile justice, dispositional alternatives in the family court , community based delinquency programming, children's law |
Decker, Scott
Psychology |
neuropsychological assessment, diagnostic decision making, academic assessment, development, evolutionary psychology; primate cognition and comparative methodologies in applications to child cognitive development |
DeHart, Dana
Center for Child & Family Studies |
violence; victims; incarceration; crime; juvenile delinquency; victim services; quantitative methods; qualitative methods; psychometry; gays and lesbians; minority health; personal relationships; sexual risk taking |
Dickenson, Tammiee
Office of Program Evaluation
Educational Studies, College of Education |
applied statistics, multilevel analysis, quasi-experimental design, program evaluation, assessment development, measurement |
DiStefano, Christine
Educational Studies |
survey & test construction, structural equation modeling, assessing emotional and behavioral development of school aged children |
Dwyer, R. Gregg
Neuropsychiatry & Behavioral Science
Director, Forensic Psychiatry Program MUSC |
sexually aggressive, offending and problem behaviors |
Fairchild, Amanda
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, and statistical pedagogy. |
Farber, Naomi
Social Work |
field research; anthropoligical studies- qualitative methods; poverty and families; family formation; teenage pregnancy; child development; survey development; AIDS education and prevention |
Finneran, Denise
COMD |
language development
specific language impairment
syntax/morphology
working memory
dialect |
Flory, Kate
Psychology (CAS) |
childhood ADHD and risk for adolescent smoking and other substance use; developmental trajectories of behavior; prevention of substance use and other health-risk behaviors |
Forthofer, Melinda
Epidemiology and Biostatistics |
health disparities; social epidemiology, especially role of social context, community-based prevention research, diffusion of innovation |
Fram, Maryah
Social Work |
consult conceptualizing inequality and stratification; social capital; youth development; early childhood |
Freedman, Darcy
Social Work |
Community-based participatory research
Social determinants of health
Food security
Obesity prevention
Youth development
Health equity |
Frongillo, Edward
Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior |
food insecurity and nutrition; parenting and family stress; child feeding, growth, and development; policy and program development, implementation, and evaluation |
Hardin, James
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Center for Health Services and Policy Research |
Correlated data analysis, software development, measurement error |
Harrod, Steven
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 |
Hayes, Kathleen
College of Social Work
Institute for Families in Society |
promoting quality program services for vulnerable children and families; adoption of special needs children; child abuse/neglect; foster care; delinquency; child welfare reform; promoting evidence-based models of family engagement |
Hein, Laura
College of Nursing |
sexual minority;
lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT);
adolescent homelessness;
resilience;
survival sex;
empowerment;
victimization |
Hock, Robert
College of Social Work |
Autism spectrum disorders, Adoptive families, Family-system interventions, Coparenting. |
Iachini, Aidyn
College of Social Work |
youth development, school social work, school mental health, school improvement, school-family-community partnerships, youth physical activity and sport, afterschool youth development programs, program evaluation, leadership and administration within youth- serving organizations |
Jones, Sonya
School of Public Health
Center for Research in Nutrition and Health Disparities |
nutrition policy, household and community food security, sustainable food systems, childhood obesity prevention, food assistance programs |
Knopf, Herman
Instruction and Teacher Education |
Early childhood curriculum, Early childhood and Special Education, Using computer-based technologies in early childhood settings, Collaboration and communication with families, Program administration |
Liese, Angela
Epidemiology & Biostatistics |
epidemiology; nutritional epidemiology, diet assessment; community food access, diabetes |
Liu, Jihong
Epidemiology and Biostatistics |
reproductive and perinatal epidemiology; physcial activity; obesity; international health, demography |
Lopez-DeFede, Ana
Pediatrics
Institute for Families in Society |
family violence, individuals with disabilities, specifically medically complex populations, children dually diagnosed with physical and mental health needs; special education systems for children with disabilities; vulnerable populations at-risk of poor health due to socio-economic and cultural factors; cross-cultural health; Medicaid Managed cared and health care financing systems. |
Mactutus, Charles
Psychology |
drug abuse neurotoxicity, addictive processes, NeuroAIDS |
Malone, Patrick
Psychology
Arts & Sciences |
substance use, adolescence, ethnicity, statistical methods |
Mann, Joshua
Family and Preventive Medicine |
Epidemiology. Preventive Medicine. Maternal Child Health. |
McDermott, Suzanne
Family & Preventative Medicine, School of Medicine |
maternal and child epidemiology; study design; disabilities |
McKeown, Robert
Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Arnold School of Public Health
Director, Health Sciences Research Core |
psychiatric epidemiology in children and adolescents; perinatal epidemiology; epidemiologic methods; public health and research ethics |
Mitchell, Monique
College of Social Work
Center for Child and Familiy Studies |
child welfare; youth in foster care; ambiguity, stress, loss, coping, and bereavement; social support; spirituality; life transitions; human development |
Mitchell, Murray
Department of Physical Education and Athletic Training |
Socialization;
Program Evaluation;
Teacher Education;
Physical Education;
Physical Activity;
Systematic Observation |
Moore, Justin
Health Promotion, Education & Behavior |
physical activity, youth, measurement |
Newman-Norlund, Roger
Exercise Science |
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Transcranial Brain Stimulation (TMS / tDCS) |
Palomares, Melanie
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
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 |
Piro, Christina
College of Pharmacy |
pediatric pharmacy; neonatal and pediatric ICU medication safety; pediatric medication education; pharmacy education |
Pitner, Ronald
College of Social Work |
Youth violence
School violence
Community violence
Stereotypes
Prejudice
Social and physical context
Judgments and reasoning
Culture
Social justice
Community civic engagement |
Prinz, Ron
Department of 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 |
Roberts, Jane
Psychology |
fragile X syndrome, physiological arousal modulation, mood and anxiety disorders in adults, temperament, autism. |
Rothenberg, Sarah
Public Health - Environmental Health Sciences
Center for Research in Nutrition and Health Disparities |
mercury, methylmercury, rice, microbiome |
Scharer, Kathleen
College of Nursing |
child psychiatric nursing, inpatient psychiatric treatment, parent/family support, stigma of mental illness, child abuse, social support |
Schatz, Jeff
Psychology |
cognition in children; neuropsychology, ERP and structural MRI of the brain. |
Shapiro, Cheri
Institute for Families in Society
College of Social Work |
evidence-based parenting interventions; implementation; prevention of maladaptive outcomes in youth including maltreatment, delinquency, and obesity; peer relationships |
Smith, Brad
Psychology |
child psychopathology; substance use; research methods; parenting; family therapy |
Sutphin, Suzanne
Center for Child and Family Studies
College of Social Work |
research methods including survey research, document analysis, and experimental social psychology |
Swan, Suzanne
Dept of Psychology |
interpersonal violence and aggression, with a focus on two main areas: interventions to prevent violence, particularly among college populations |
Van Horn, M. Lee
Department of Psychology |
community and school level outcomes; substance abuse prevention; statistical and methodological issues in prevention |
Walsemann, Katrina
Health Promotion, Education and 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
Psychology |
empowerment evaluation, substance abuse prevention with youth, teen pregnancy prevention, underage drinking prevention, positive youth development |
Weist, Mark
Psychology |
school mental health; positive behavior intervention and support; youth family engagement and empowerment; evidence-based practice; interdisciplinary and cross-systems collaboration; policy influence |
Whitaker, Pippin
College of Social Work |
Intimate partner and teen dating violence prevention, Child maltreatment prevention, Human trafficking, Empowerment evaluation, Analysis for theory development and testing |
Wilson, Dawn
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. |
Zarrett, Nicole
Psychology |
the role of out-of-school activities in promoting healthy developmental pathways; the promotion of healthy behaviors and attitudes, adolescent obesity prevention and intervention ; the 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, and the conceptualization of developmental stability and change |
