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CRF's Affiliates and Collaborators participate in the center's many activities, offering opportunities to engage with researchers from other disciplines. CRF collaborates with UMass Amherst units across campus, throughout the UMass system, as well as programs throughout the local colleges of Amherst, Hampshire, Smith, and Mount Holyoke.
CRF Affiliates
Daniel Anderson
Psychology
(anderson@psych.umass.edu)
Research: children and media; cognitive analysis of children's television viewing; impact of television on cognitive development and education.
David Arnold
Psychology
(darnold@psych.umass.edu)
Research: Early intervention for disruptive behavior and academic problems in high-risk children; parenting; preschool teaching; family influences on early academic development.
M.V. Lee Badgett
Economics
(lbadgett@econs.umass.edu)
Research: family policy and on
labor market discrimination based on sexual orientation, race, and gender.
Michelle Budig
Sociology
(budig@soc.umass.edu)
Research: gender, employment, labor markets, earnings,
stratification, and family.
Brenda Bushouse
Political Science and Public Policy
(bushouse@polsci.umass.edu)
Research: Early education and care policy; the role of nonprofits in the delivery of human services; effects of policies on industry change.
Dan Clawson
Sociology
(clawson@sadri.umass.edu)
Research: labor movements and labor policy in the U.S., and their impact on the well-being of families.
Leda Cooks
Communication
(leda@comm.umass.edu)
Research: interpersonal and intercultural communication; feminist, postcolonial and critical communication theory; and identity, collective memory, and nationalism
Nilanjana Dasgupta
Psychology
(dasgupta@psych.umass.edu)
Research: beliefs and attitudes toward social groups; mental processes that promote intergroup stereotypes and prejudices.
Matt Davidson
Assistant Professor of Psychology
(davidson@psych.umass.edu)
Research: effects of physical activity on cognitive avilities and emotional stability in children and young adults
Nancy Folbre
Economics
(folbre@econs.umass.edu)
Research: Interface between feminist theory and political economy, with particular interest in caring labor and other forms of non-market work.
Jennifer Foster
Assistant Professor of Nursing
jwfoster@nursing.umass.edu
Research:
Naomi Gerstel
Sociology
(gerstel@soc.mass.edu)
Research: Family, Gender, Families and Work, Caregiving and Care Work.
Harold Grotevant
Psychology
(hgroteva@psych.umass.edu)
Research: Adoption, child and family development, family dynamics, family assessment, identity development.
Sanjiv Gupta
Sociology
(sangupta@soc.umass.edu)
Research: Family, Demography and Sociology; Gender Stratification; Methods.
Krista Harper
Assistant Professor of Anthrophology
(kharper@anthro.umass.edu)
Research: Social movements around the issues of health, enviornment, and human rights in Hungary, Romo gypsies and environmental justice.
Elizabeth Harvey
Psychology
(eharvey@psych.umass.edu)
Research: Young children with behavior disorders; how family factors contribute to the development and maintenance of attention and
disruptive behavior disorders.
Unja Hayes
Assistant Professor of Psychology
(unja@cns.umass.edu)
Research: Partental behaviors with a specific interest in the trasition from neglectfullaggressive reactions to motivated, caring parenting of newborns; the influencs of physical events during childbirthh, maternal depression and quality of care.
Julie Hemment
Anthropology
(jhemment@anthro.umass.edu)
Research: Russia in the post-Soviet periodcultural; feminist, and
activist anthropology and participatory action research methodology.
Jennifer Hickes Lundquist
Sociology
(lundquist@soc.umass.edu)
Research: racial disparities along a variety of demographic outcomes,
including marriage, family stability, fertility and health.
Bernie Jones
Legal Studies
(bdjones@legal.umass.edu)
Research: Law in the Historical Context; Law and the Family;
Slavery and the Law; Critical Race Theory.
Marsha Kline Pruett
Social Work(Mpruett@email.smith.edu)
Research:Family issues specific to family and juvenile law; Healthy
family development during life transitions
Lynnette Leidy Sievert
Anthropology
(leidy@anthro.umass.edu)
Research: Older women's health; variation in age and sympton experience at menopause.
Joya Misra
Sociology and Public Policy
(misra@soc.umass.edu)
Research: how family policies in industrialized
nations mediate and reshape inequalities by gender, class, and racial and ethnic groups.
Maureen Perry-Jenkins
Psychology
(mpj@psych.umass.edu)
Research: Gender in families, work-family issues, single motherhood; work-family issues for low-income families experiencing the transition to parenthood.
Paula Pietromonaco
Psychology
(monaco@psych.umass.edu)
Research: attachment styles in adulthood and the effects of attachment on
dating and marital relationships.
Sally Powers
Director of CRF, Psychology
(powers@psych.umass.edu)
Research: Family, community and endocrinological factors in adolescent development and psychopathology; direct observation of behavior; gender differences, depression.
Rebecca Ready
Assistant Professor of Psychology
(ready@psych.umass.edu)
Research: The interface between cognition and emotion in healthy older adults; successful navigation of the challenges of aging and how changes in cognition and emtion interact as persons get older.
Janet Rifkin, Dean
College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Legal Studies
(jrifkin@legal.umass.edu)
Research: Alternative dispute resolution.
Dean E. Robinson
Associate Professor of Political Science
(deanr@polsci.umass.edu)
Research:The effects of political and public policy trends on racial
health disparities;reinforce inequality of social welfare provision and socioeconomic status.
Aline Sayer
CRF's Methodology program director, Psychology
(sayer@psych.umass.edu)
Research: child and adolescent development; quantitative methodology and statistical strategies for studying individual development
over time.
Amy Schalet
Sociology
(schalet@soc.umass.edu)
Research: sexuality, family, culture, personhood, and the welfare state, and
comparative adolescent sexuality.
Erica Scharrer
Communication
(scharrer@comm.umass.edu)
Research: Media effects on aggression and socialization; media portrayals of
gender and violence.
Richard Tessler
Sociology
(tessler@sadri@umass.edu)
Research: social psychology, mental health, and childhood; Chinese adoptees in America
and bicultural socialization processes, with a focus on how families help children cope with prejudice and discrimination.
Lisa Wexler
Assistant Professor, Community Health Education,
School of Public Health and Health Sciences
(lwexler@schoolph.umass.edu )
Research:
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CRF UMassAmherst Collaborators
The Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studiesat the University of Massachusetts Amherst promotes research, teaching, and public education on the histories, cultures, and politics of Latin American and Caribbean peoples across the Americas and throughout the world.
The Center for Public Policy and Administration (CPPA) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst is committed to research and teaching to improve public life.
The Center for Neuroendocrine Studies (CNS) of the University of Massachusetts Amherst consists of the research groups of seventeen faculty members who share an interest in understanding the relationships among hormones, the brain, physiology, and behavior.
The School of Nursing at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has always been a leader in nursing education. Since its founding in 1953, it has continuously developed academic programs to address society's ongoing and emerging health needs and to prepare graduates for practice in diverse settings.
The School of Education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst is an NCATE-approved comprehensive professional school providing specialized preparation in diverse areas of education.
The Social and Demographic Research Institute (SADRI) has served as the research arm of the Department of Sociology and affiliated researchers at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst for over three decades.
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