Results for "family"

Projects

PAID FACILITATOR POSITIONS AVAILABLE - Juntos Podemos (Together We Can)

Project Lead:
Description:

Project JUNTOS (TOGETHER) is a lab in the Department of Human Development and Family Sciences. Research in this lab focuses on the well-being of Latinx/Hispanic youth and their families. The 4th year of the JUNTOS…

PAID RESEARCH ASSISTANT POSITIONS AVAILABLE - JUNTOS PODEMOS

Project Lead:
Description:

Project JUNTOS (TOGETHER) is a lab in the Department of Human Development and Family Sciences. Research in this lab focuses on the well-being of Latinx/Hispanic youth and their families. For the JUNTOS Familia Study…

The Family Asthma Study - Community-Based Intervention Research Study

Project Lead:
Description:

UPDATE SEPTEMBER 2025: ALL RA POSITIONS FOR THE 2025-26 ACADEMIC YEAR HAVE BEEN FILLED. PLEASE CHECK BACK IN AUGUST 2026 FOR OPENINGS!

The Family Asthma Study is seeking undergraduate research…

Faculty

Kamran Ali

Affiliated Departments:
Américo Paredes Center for Cultural Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Center for Women's and Gender Studies, Comparative Literature, Middle Eastern Studies, Religious Studies, South Asia Institute
Research Interests:

Gender, Sexuality, Health, Development, Labor History, Political Economy; Post-Colonialism; 

Urban Social Histories, Popular Culture, Historiography, Memory, Liberalism, Middle 

East; South…

Edward Anderson

Affiliated Departments:
School of Human Ecology, Human Development and Family Sciences, Statistics and Scientific Computation
Research Interests:

Dr. Anderson specializes in the adjustment of children and families to parental divorce and remarriage. His interests include understanding how divorced parents' dating and repartnering affects children and…

Jacqueline Angel

Affiliated Departments:
Center for Women's and Gender Studies, LBJ School of Public Affairs
Research Interests:

Social policy and programs on aging; health care policy; demographic methods; gender roles.
Aging and health among Mexican American women; health care policy and older women; poverty; demographic change

Marilyn Armour

Affiliated Departments:
School of Social Work
Research Interests:

Clinical interventions with individuals, couples, and families; Clinical supervision; Cross Cultural supervision; Professional ethics and boundaries; Restorative justice; Research on families of homicide victims;…

Noel Busch

Affiliated Departments:
School of Social Work
Research Interests:

violence against women and children; social and public policy; social justice; international social work education, training and practice; adoption and child welfare issues

Cindy Carlson

Affiliated Departments:
Educational Psychology
Research Interests:

Family psychology; family assessment; family-school linkages; diversity of family functioning; family therapy process and outcome; attachment theory; early adolescence

Shannon Cavanagh

Affiliated Departments:
Center for Women's and Gender Studies, Population Research Center, Sociology
Research Interests:

Grounded in family demography and social psychology, Dr. Shannon Cavanagh's research mainly explores 1) children’s experiences with their parents’ partner instability and 2) the transition into adulthood amidst…

Robert Crosnoe

Affiliated Departments:
College of Liberal Arts, Psychology, Plan II Honors Program, Population Research Center, Sociology, Human Development and Family Sciences, School of Undergraduate Studies
Research Interests:

Professor Crosnoe's main research area is the educational success and healthy development of children, adolescents, and young adults in the U.S. Drawing on both quantitative and qualitative methods, he studies the…