An interdisciplinary committee of CNS and CSBS faculty, dedicated to boosting the impact of the work of the Center, provides guidance to the center's staff regarding development and activities.
David Arnold's research evaluates community partnership programs designed to foster disadvantaged young children's preliteracy development and academic engagement, while reducing behavior problems and promoting positive relationships with parents and teachers.
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Brenda Bushouse's research interests include early childhood policy, nonprofit governance, and policymaking processes.
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Nancy Folbre focuses on the interface between feminist theory and political economy, with a particular interest in caring labor and other forms of non-market work. She has received a five-year fellowship from the
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Naomi Gerstel’s research focuses on work and families, with particular attention to gender gaps in paid and unpaid caregiving. She explores the effects of employment on the care adult daughters’ and sons’ give to their parents, the effects of
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Harold Grotevant's research focuses on relationships in adoptive families, and on adjustment and identity development in adolescents and young adults. His work has resulted in over 100 articles published in professional journals as well as several books, including Openness in Adoption: Exploring Family Connections (with Ruth McRoy, Sage Publications, 1998).
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Maureen Perry-Jenkins is a nationally renowned scholar whose contributions on the national, state, regional, and university levels have had profound impact. Her work focuses on the ways in which socio-cultural factors such as race,
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Paula Pietromonaco is a social psychologist who studies how people think, feel, and behave in the context of their closest relationships. Her particular interest lies in how couple members influence each other’s ability to manage their emotions,
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As a developmental psychopathologist, Sally Powers’ investigates the interaction of normal developmental processes and psychopathology in adolescents and young adults.
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Lynnette Leidy Sievert is a biological anthropologist whose research has focused on age at menopause and symptom experience at menopause as two aspects of human variation. She is also interested in the evolution of menopause and
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