Meet the Team
Research Associates
- Alex Bishop
Areas of Expertise: Subjective well-being, religiosity/spirituality, aging-in-place, gerotechnology
Populations of Interest: Centenarians, aging prisoners, rural older adults, older care recipients, retired religious clergy - Jason Beaman
Areas of Expertise: Family murder, specifically parents who kill their children; Arson and Psychosis. - Jennifer Becnel
Areas of Expertise: Physical and mental health, technology use, substance use, sexual behavior
Populations of Interest: Adolescents, young adults, rural youth - Matthew W. Brosi
Areas of Expertise: Intimate partner violence, couple and family relationships, influence of values and beliefs on decision-making and interpersonal dynamics) - Greg Clare
Areas of Expertise: Food Recall Consumer Response, Food Recall Message Design, Nutrition Label Design, Consumer Response to Nutrition Label Information to Improve Health, Older Consumer Behavior, Circadian Rhythms, Lighting Design and Facility Interventions to Enhance Caregiver/Client Wellbeing, Food Packaging and Lighting Design - Lucia Ciciolla
Areas of Expertise: Maternal mental health; Infant mental health; Parenting; Clinical intervention; Longitudinal methodology - Ronald B. Cox, Jr.
Areas of Expertise: Co-parenting and stepfamily dynamics, adolescent high-risk behavior, parenting, Latino families - Michael M. Criss
Areas of Expertise: Parenting, peer relationships, developmental change in parent-child relationship, developmental psychopathology, emotion regulation, adolescent development) - Julie Croff
Areas of Expertise: Alcohol & other drug use; Health behavior; Person-environment interaction; Underserved populations - Catherine Curtis
Areas of Expertise: Employee motivation and positive and negative deviance within hospitality organizations - Colony Fugate
Areas of Expertise: Pediatrics, pediatric obesity, pediatric chronic disease, children with developmental disabilities, inter-disciplinary collaboration - Kami L. Gallus
Areas of Expertise: Effects of trauma on women's mental health and childbearing issues, systemic dynamics of trauma and resilience) - Zachary Giano
Areas of Expertise: Risk-taking behavior, Resilience mechanisms, Educational attainment, Mental health outcomes - Joseph G. Grzywacz
Areas of Expertise: Work and Family; Health Disparities; Health Behavior; Work Organization and Health; Immigrant Latino Health) - Tonya Hammer
Areas of Expertise: Body image and eating disorders, humiliation and language particularly with regard to marginalized populations, mentoring and relational cultural theory. - Amanda W. Harrist
Areas of Expertise: Parent-child and peer relations in development of child social competence; Psychosocial contexts of child obesity) - Paulette Hebert
Areas of Expertise: Lighting Design, Facility Design and Management, Sustainable Design - Carolyn S. Henry
Areas of Expertise: Families and adolescents with a focus on contexts (neighborhoods, family systems, parent-adolescent dyads) and adolescent adaptation (social, emotional, educational, risk & resilience). Interests include selected diversity issues (family structure, race/ethnicity)
- Randy Hubach
Areas of Expertise: HIV/AIDS, sexual health, rural health, men who have sex with men, health disparities, LGBT population health - Aditya Jayadas
Areas of Expertise: Older individuals, addressing the needs of patients and caregivers from rural areas and low-back pain in police officers - Jennifer Jones
Areas of Expertise: Services and supports (e.g., employment, residential) for individuals with intellectual disability and their family members; Social and community inclusion for individuals with intellectual disability across the lifespan (e.g., education, work place, recreation/leisure) - Douglas Knutson
Areas of Expertise: Health and resiliency among transgender, lesbian, bisexual and gay identified populations - Julie Koch
Areas of Expertise: Counselor training, prevention, school counseling, social justice, and multicultural (sexual orientation, gender/trans, race/ethnicity and immigrant) counseling - Robert E. (Bob) Larzelere
Areas of Expertise: Improving practical research methods in general and parental discipline - Sumit Mandal
Areas of Expertise: Textile and apparel science, textile engineering and technology, protective textiles and clothing, thermal protective clothing - Valerie McGaha
Areas of Expertise: Depression and Suicide, Academic Achievement, Mandated Populations and Incarceration, Social Justice and Racial Reconciliation - Kerry Morgan
Areas of Expertise: Physical activity specialist for Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences’ Family Health and Nutrition Clinic, which is a multidisciplinary, comprehensive clinic for treating overweight and obese children - M. Rachel Schmitz
Areas of Expertise: Nuanced aspects of intersecting social inequalities within the realms of gender, sexuality, social class, and family - Amanda Sheffield Morris
Areas of Expertise: The socialization of emotion regulation, parenting in high risk settings, the role of emotion in the development of psychopathology - Karina M. Shreffler
Areas of Expertise: Work and family conflict, teen/unplanned pregnancy, infertility and reproductive health, demography - Mike Stout
Areas of Expertise: family and community policy, program evaluation, economic forecasting, community asset mapping, community and civic engagement - Ginger Welch
Areas of Expertise: Child maltreatment and child neglect fatalities; psychosocial aspects of Sickle Cell Disease; developmental issues related to premature birth; assessment; trauma/PTSD - Amanda Williams
Areas of Expertise: Psychosocial and physical health, cumulative risks and life course resilience, social media technology, program evaluation - Stephan M. Wilson
Areas of Expertise: Adolescent social competence across cultures, family and other influences on youth connectedness/separateness, required adult social skills, self-esteem, and achievement, family social capital influences on developmental and status attainment outcomes