Melissa A. Barnett
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dr. Barnett’s broad research goals are to identify family-based targets for interventions to promote positive social and emotional development among young children from economically disadvantaged families. She is interested in the interactive influences of economic disadvantage, socioculutral contexts, family relations, and individual characteristics on parents and young children. Her research considers parenting, coparenting and intergenerational relationships. Specifically, her research focuses on how non-maternal caregivers, especially fathers and grandmothers, influence development early in life within particular sociocultural and familial contexts. Dr. Barnett is the Norton Assistant Professor in Fathers, Parenting, and Families.
Email: barnettm@arizona.edu
Emily Butler
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Stanford University
Dr. Butler studies emotion, relationships, and health. One current focus is on emotion regulation, eating, and relationship processes in couples struggling with obesity. Other topics of interest include the social and physiological consequences of emotion regulation, the links between emotional physiology and experience, and cultural differences in emotion regulation. Dr. Butler uses a range of methodologies - including psychophysiology experiments, daily diaries, open-ended interviews, and longitudinal assessments - to study these, and other, interpersonal emotional processes that influence well-being.
Email: eabutler@email.arizona.edu
Lynne M. Borden
Extension Specialist and Professor
Ph.D. University of Illinois
Dr. Borden's scholarly interest focus on the contribution and the relationship between multiple contexts such as structured-out-of-school programs, schools, families and communities on positive development of young people.
Email: bordenl@ag.arizona.edu
Noel Card
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. St. John's University
Dr. Card's interests are in both social development and quantitative methods, and especially at the interface of these two disciplines. His substantive research is in social development, especially peer relations and aggressive behavior during childhood and adolescence. He is conducting research that considers the various forms and functions of aggressive behavior, the risk factors and consequences of childhood peer victimization, and the dyadic relationships that exist between aggressors and victims. His quantitative interests involve several interrelated analytic approaches. The first of these is structural equation modeling, and he is conducting research on alternative latent variable scaling methods and their uses, methods of evaluating measurement invariance across groups and/or time, and practices of modeling latent means.
Email: ncard@email.arizona.edu
Melissa Curran
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin
Dr. Curran's work is grounded in attachment, family systems, interdependence, and commitment theories. Dr. Curran uses these theories to study questions about adult romantic relationships and families. Dr. Curran is interested in expanding her research to investigate how illness in one romantic partner impacts the romantic relationship and the overall family system.
Email: macurran@email.arizona.edu
Bruce Ellis
Professor
John & Doris Norton Endowed Chair in Fathers, Parenting, and Families
Ph.D., University of Michigan
Dr. Ellis seeks to integrate evolutionary and developmental perspectives in his research on family environments, child stress reactivity, and sexual development. He leads the McClelland Institute initiative on Fathers, Parenting, and Families.
Email: bjellis@email.arizona.edu
Maureen Kelly
Associate Profeesor
Ph.D., The Ohio State Univesity
Dr. Kelly's primary research interests are in teacher acquisition of information and skills via staff development programs.
Email: mekelly@ag.arizona.edu
Susan Silverberg Koerner
Fitch Nesbitt Professor of Family and Consumer Sciences
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dr. Koerner's current research focuses on the well-being of adults caring for elderly family members – with a specific interest in emotional and physical stress reactivity assessed via daily diary data. Her upcoming research will pay special attention to the experiences of Mexican-American caregivers. Dr. Koerner often combines quantitative and qualitative approaches to data collection and analysis.
Email: ssilver@ag.arizona.edu
Andrea Romero
Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of Houston
Her research interests include studying cultural factors that may prevent ethnic and racial health disparities. She has published several articles that focus on sources of resiliency found in ethnic identity, families, and low-income neighborhoods. One of her research projects is a hip-hop based curriculum to prevent substance use and increase physical activity by empowering youth through their ethnic identity and neighborhood resources.
Email: romeroa@email.arizona.edu
Michael J. Rohrbaugh
Professor
Dr. Rohrbaugh is a clinical psychologist whose current research focuses on family dynamics and change processes relevant to health and behavior problems ranging from heart disease to adolescent drug abuse.
Email: michaelr@u.arizona.edu
Stephen T. Russell
Professor
Fitch Nesbitt Endowed Chair in Family and Consumer Sciences
Ph.D., Duke University
Dr. Russell is a recipient of a Faculty Scholar Award from the William T. Grant Foundation, which supports his research on adolescent sexual orientation, health and competence. Other projects include a study focusing on parenting practices and adolescent well-being (funded by NICHD) and Building Partnerships for Youth (funded by CDC).
Email: strussell@arizona.edu
Angela Taylor
Associate Professor and Chair
Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Dr. Taylor's scholarly interests include children's interpersonal relationships and the development of social competence, early school adjustment of low-income and minority children, and sociocultural influences on child development.
Email: artaylor@u.arizona.edu
