Developmental Faculty Research Interests

Heather Bachman, Ph.D.

Research Interests: school readiness, achievement, home and classroom (preschool/elementary processes, low-income families

Accepting Students? Yes

____________________________________________________________

Celia Brownell, Ph.D.

Research Interests: early presocial development, social/emotional understanding, socialization 

Accepting Students? Yes

____________________________________________________________

Jana Iverson, Ph.D.

Research Interests: communicative development gesture, motor development, autism spectrum disorders, atypical development

Accepting Students? Yes

____________________________________________________________

Melissa Libertus, Ph.D.

Research Interests: cognitive development, mathematical cognition, educational neuroscience, developmental cognitive neuroscience

Accepting Students? Yes

____________________________________________________________

Klaus Libertus, Ph.D.

Research Interests: learning, motor development, cognitive development, autism spectrum disorders, infancy

Accepting Students? Yes

____________________________________________________________

Kathryn Monahan, Ph.D.

Research Interests: risk and resilience in adolescence, juvenile justice

Accepting Students? Yes

____________________________________________________________

Daniel Shaw, Ph.D.

Research Interests: developmental psychopathology, development and prevention of child conduct problems

Accepting Students? Yes

____________________________________________________________

Jennifer Silk, Ph.D.

Research Interests: anxiety, depression, adolescence, social relationships, emotional regulation, developmental affective neuroscience

Accepting Students? Yes

____________________________________________________________

Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal, Ph.D.

Research Interests: poverty, race/ethnicity, socioeconomic disadvantage, urbanicity, early childhood education, immigrant children

Accepting Students? Yes

____________________________________________________________

Ming-Te Wang, Ph.D.

Research Interests: achievement motivation, parenting, school learning, child/adolescent socioemotional developent, prevention/intervention

Accepting Students? Yes

____________________________________________________________

Susan Campbell, Ph.D.

Research Interests: socio-economic development, parent-child relationships, risk and behavior problems in young children

Accepting Students? No

____________________________________________________________

Jennifer Ganger, Ph.D.

Research Interests: language acquisition

Accepting Students? No

____________________________________________________________

Carl Johnson, Ph.D.

Research Interests: developing concepts of mind, contemplative practices, spiritual development

Accepting Students? No

____________________________________________________________

Robert McCall, Ph.D.

Research Interests: orphanage interventions, development of institutionalized and post-institutionalized children

Accepting Students? No

____________________________________________________________

Sharon Nelson-Le Gall, Ph.D.

Research Interests: Socio-emotional development, parent-child relationships; risk and behavior problems in young children

Accepting Students? No

____________________________________________________________

Mark Strauss, Ph.D.

Research Interests: infant development, origins of autism

Accepting Students? No

____________________________________________________________