Current Ph.D. Students

Areas Of Expertise: Empathy, mental health, empathy avoidance in helping professionals, empathic distress, serious mental illness and recovery

Areas of Expertise: Social connectedness, human development, gerontology, intergroup contact, aging-in-place, psychotherapy

Areas of Expertise: Child sexual exploitation and abuse, kinship care, parenting, violence against women, culture and community

Areas of Expertise: Housing search process, poverty, economic inequality, stress, socio-technical systems

Areas of Expertise: Gamification and gamblification, mental and behavioral health risk among marginalized populations, technology-mediated abuse, harassment, and violence

Areas of Expertise: Substance use, harm reduction, overdose, criminal justice

Areas of Expertise: Sex work, reproductive justice, stigma, care networks, participatory research

Areas of Expertise: Housing and homelessness, community-based participatory action research, LGBTQ+ issues, faith-based organizations, trauma and trauma-informed care, social networks of youth and young adults

Areas of Expertise: Victimization among Latine/x women, child maltreatment and neglect

Areas of Expertise: Sport-based positive development, adolescent sexual and reproductive health, and adolescent and adult mental health

Areas of Expertise: Health disparities and marginalized communities; Help-seeking; Culture/religion and health; Culturally-sensitive health services; Community-based research; Qualitative research

Areas of Expertise: Behavioral health, addiction and recovery, artificial intelligence/machine learning, geospatial, clinical intervention research, data justice

Areas of Expertise: Aging and the life course; Social determinants of health; Inequality; Digital

Areas of Expertise: Older adults; Poverty alleviation; Healthcare insurance; Charitable giving; Quantitative research 

Areas of Expertise: Health disparities among LGBTQ+ and BIPOC populations, carceral systems and state violence, structural determinants of health, community-based research

Areas of Expertise: Othering, belonging, and bridging, particularly when centering disability as an intersectional identity; Cross-discipline problem solving; the Evolution of research methodologies to reflect changing identities; and Coalition-building

Areas of Expertise: Implementation science, social-emotional learning, educational effectiveness, policy implementation

Areas of Expertise: Community-level interventions, age-friendly communities, community practice, implementation science, qualitative methods, social network analysis

Areas of Expertise: Affects of parental incarceration on BBIPOC youth, opioid use disorder, and collateral consequences of mass incarceration

Areas of Expertise: Substance use, aging, social support, LGBTQIA+ populations

Areas of Expertise: Faith-based social services, homelessness, Housing First, end-of-life care, harm reduction, community organizing, mixed methods, critical research

Areas of Expertise: Global child welfare; Child wellbeing and development; Child maltreatment; Diversity and inclusion in the academy; Prevention and implementation research; Mixed methods research; Decolonizing methodology; Community based action research

Areas of Expertise: Technology-facilitated sexual violence (TFSV), image-based sexual abuse

Areas of Expertise: Child welfare policy and practice, child and family well-being, community and social support, poverty, income and wealth inequality

Areas of Expertise: Gender-based violence prevention, technology and social work, masculinities, sexual and reproductive health, intervention development and evaluation, bystander intervention

Areas of Expertise: Reproductive rights, adolescent development, child welfare, decision-making processes

Areas of Expertise: Immigrant and refugee well-being, child welfare systems, structural violence, traumatic stress, health equity