UD Graduate Catalog 1997-1998
  College of Human Resources, Education and Public Policy
Human Development and Family Studies
Faculty in the Graduate Program
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Sally Bould, Ph.D. (California, Berkeley), Professor; also Professor, Sociology: Social stratification, economic work.
 
John C. Cavanaugh, Ph.D. (Notre Dame), Professor;  also Vice Provost for Academic Programs and Planning; also Professor, Psychology: Family caregiving, cognition and aging, health and aging.
 
Penny L. Deiner, Ph.D. (Pennsylvania State), Professor: Young exceptional children, children and families in crisis, family interventions.
 
Tamara K. Hareven, Ph.D. (Ohio State), Unidel Professor of Family Studies, also Professor, History: Family and the life course, aging, work and family, family history, cross-cultural perspectives.
 
Marion C. Hyson, Ph.D. (Bryn Mawr), Professor: Early childhood education, early emotional development, policy issues in early care and education.
 
Dene G. Klinzing, Ph.D. (Pennsylvania State), Professor: Hospitalized children, child development, communication.
 
Donald L. Peters, Ph.D. (Stanford), Amy Rextrew Professor: Early childhood development, service program planning and evaluation.
 
Barbara H. Settles, Ph.D. (Ohio State), Professor: Quality issues in family care, family theory, family life education, interactive planning for family futures.
 
Carol J. Vukelich, Ph.D. (Southern Illinois), Professor; also Professor, Education: Parent education, beginning reading, gifted preschool children.
 
Katherine S. Conway-Turner, Ph.D. (Kansas), Associate Professor;  also Interim Dean, College of Arts and Science;  also Professor, psychology and Professor, Women's Studies: Life span development, human sexuality, care-giving issues, gerontology, black family development.
 
Karen A. Curtis, Ph.D. (Temple), Associate Professor; also Associate Professor, Urban Affairs and Public Policy: Non-profit leadership in voluntary sector, applied research and public policy analysis.
 
Michael Ferrari, Ph.D. (Rutgers), Associate Professor; also Associate Professor, Psychology: Geriatric neuropsychology, brain injury, dementia research, rehabilitation.
 
Mary Lou Liprie, Ph.D. (Ohio State), Associate Professor: Adolescent development, research methodology, family and consumer sciences education, adolescent decision making, nutrition education.
 
Patricia T. Nelson, Ed.D. (Columbia), Associate Professor: Family stress, family concerns, parenting.
 
Robin J. Palkovitz, Ph.D. (Rutgers), Associate Professor and Interim Chair: Parental development, transitions to parenthood, father involvement in child rearing, life span development.
 
Daniel D. Shade, Ph.D. (North Carolina, Greensboro), Associate Professor: Children and technology, computers in early childhood education, technology and families, child development.
 
Donald G. Unger, Ph.D. (South Carolina), Associate Professor: Child and family therapy, pediatric psychology, teenage pregnancy, community support systems.
 
Elizabeth M. Bertera, Ph.D. (Bryn Mawr), Assistant Professor: Aging, minority health and social support.
 
Martha Buell, Ph.D. (North Carolina, Greensboro), Assistant Professor: Early childhood classroom quality and teacher professional development; work, family and college; and emergent literacy.
 
Michael Gamel-McCormick, Ph.D: (Virginia Commonwealth), Assistant Professor: Early childhood development and education, intervention with special needs populations, qualitative analyses.
 
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