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Sara Axtell
Jean Bauer
Wayne Caron(deceased)
Shonda Craft
Sharon Danes
William Doherty
Jodi Dworkin

Abigail Gewirtz
William Goodman
Jan McCulloch
Cynthia Meyer
Patricia Olson
Kathryn Rettig
Paul Rosenblatt
Martha Rueter
Catherine Solheim
Marlene Stum
William Turner
Liz Wieling
Blong Xiong
Virginia Zuiker

Non-resident Teaching Faculty
Sayali Amarapurkar
Liddy Hope
John Jankord


Mary Jo Katras
Beth Magistad


Brier Miller Minor
Kristine Piescher
Aysem Senyurekli

Emeritus Faculty
Pauline Boss
Harold Grotevant
Mary Heltsley


M. Janice Hogan
Jim Maddock


David Olson
Shirley Zimmerman

University of Minnesota-Family Social Science-Sara Axtell

Sara Axtell

Community-Campus Health Outreach Liaison
(Ph.D., University of Minnesota)
Office: 282 McNeal Hall
Phone: (612) 625-0252
E-mail: axtel002@umn.edu
Mailing Address: 290 McNeal Hall
Scholarly interests: Community Engagement, Cross-cultural Interfacing, Community Health, Systems Change and Faculty Development.

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Jean Bauer

Professor, Director of Graduate Studies & Extension Specialist
(Ph.D., University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana)
Office: 275d McNeal Hall
Phone: (612) 625-1763
E-mail: jbauer@umn.edu
Mailing Address: 290 McNeal Hall
Scholarly interests: Economic Well-Being of the Family, Family Policy, Welfare Reform, Family and Community Well-Being, Policies and Interface of the Family System with Other Systems.

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Shonda Craft

Assistant Professor
(Ph.D., The Ohio State University)
Office: 299h McNeal Hall
Phone: (612) 626-4354
E-mail: craft029@umn.edu
Mailing Address: 290 McNeal Hall
Scholarly interests: Sexuality and Public Health (HIV; sexual identity, women's health); Intimate Partner Violence, Marriage and Family Therapy, Cultural Identity.

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Sharon Danes

Professor & Extension Specialist
(Ph.D., Iowa State University)
Office: 275f McNeal Hall
Phone: (612) 625-9273
E-mail: sdanes@umn.edu
Mailing Address: 290 McNeal Hall
Scholarly interests: Intersection of Social and Economic Decision Making, Family Businesses, Families and Work, Family Financial issues within relationships, Change and Resiliency, Farm Women, Families, and Businesses, Children and Money.

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William Doherty

Professor
(Ph.D., University of Connecticut)
Office: 297 McNeal Hall
Phone: (612) 625-4752
E-mail: bdoherty@umn.edu
Mailing Address: 290 McNeal Hall
Scholarly interests: Fatherhood, Marriage and Family Therapy, Families Dealing with Chronic Illness, Ethics, Community and Family.

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Jodi Dworkin

Associate Professor & Extension Specialist
(Ph.D., University of Illinois)
Office: 275c McNeal Hall
Phone: (612) 624-3732
E-mail: jdworkin@umn.edu
Mailing Address: 290 McNeal Hall
Scholarly interests: Promoting Positive Family Development, Strengthening Families, Normative Adolescent and College Student Development, and Parenting Adolescents and College Students

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Abigail Gewirtz

Assistant Professor
(Ph.D., Columbia University)
Office: 294 McNeal Hall
Phone: (612) 624-1475
E-mail: agewirtz@umn.edu
Mailing Address: 290 McNeal Hall
Scholarly interests:Trauma - Parenting – Prevention Programs for Children’s Healthy Development

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William Goodman

Senior Lecturer & Associate Professor
(Ph.D., Purdue University)
Office: 275a McNeal Hall
Phone: (612) 625-1282
E-mail: wgoodman@umn.edu
Mailing Address: 290 McNeal Hall
Scholarly interests: Undergraduate Education, Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Families, Marriage and Family Therapy, Family of Origin, Diversity Issues.

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Jan McCulloch

Professor & Department Head
(Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Greensboro)
Office: 290d McNeal Hall
Phone: (612) 624-1208
E-mail: jmccullo@umn.edu
Mailing Address: 290 McNeal Hall
Scholarly interests: Mental and Physical Well-being of Older Rural Adults, Rural Aging, Methodological examinations of aging and family constructs, and Family Influences on Older Rural Women's Medical Decision-making, Cultural Awareness and Competence, Development Across the Lifespan, and Economic and Social Well-being

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Cynthia Meyer

Lecturer
(Ph.D., University of Minnesota)
Office: 299b McNeal Hall
Phone: (612) 625-8265
E-mail: cjmeyer@umn.edu
Mailing Address: 290 McNeal Hall
Scholarly interests: Sexuality and Families, Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Families, Marriage and Family Therapy

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Patricia Olson

Area Program Leader - Personal and Family Financial Education
(Ph.D., The Ohio State University)
Office: 299d McNeal Hall
Phone: (612) 624-1786
E-mail: pdolson@umn.edu
Mailing Address: 290 McNeal Hall
Scholarly interests: entrepreneurship and self-sufficiency, rural family businesses, program evaluation

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Kathryn Rettig

Professor
(Ph.D., Michigan State University)
Office: 286 McNeal Hall
Phone: (612) 625-7745
E-mail: krettig@umn.edu
Mailing Address: 290 McNeal Hall
Scholarly interests: Family Life Quality; Relationship-Ending Transitions; Problem-Solving, Decision-Making and Human Resource Development in Families; Value Conflicts Resulting from Legal-Economic and Ethical Challenges; and the Economic Consequences of Divorce.

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Paul Rosenblatt

Professor
(Ph.D., Northwestern University)
Office: 293 McNeal Hall
Phone: (612) 625-3120
E-mail: prosenbl@umn.edu
Mailing Address: 290 McNeal Hall
Scholarly interests: Family and Couple Systems, Qualitative Family Research, Loss and Families, Grief Theory, Family Theory, African American Families, Family and Cultural Diversity, How Government and Corporate Policies Affect Families, Global Warming and Families

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Martha Rueter

Associate Professor
(Ph.D., Iowa State University)
Office: 275e McNeal Hall
Phone: (612) 625-3163
E-mail: mrueter@umn.edu
Mailing Address: 290 McNeal Hall
Scholarly interests: Family interactions in families with genetically unrelated parents and children, Adoptive families, Family communication, Suicidal behavior among adolescents, Child and adolescent adjustment, Family research methods, Family observation methods

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Catherine Solheim

Associate Professor
(Ph.D., University of Minnesota)
Office: 287 McNeal Hall
Phone: (612) 625-1201
E-mail: csolheim@umn.edu
Mailing Address: 290 McNeal Hall
Scholarly interests: Family Resource Management, Family Asset Development, Family Policy, Families and Culture, Human Ecology Theory, Global Family Systems.

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Marlene Stum

Professor & Extension Specialist
(Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Office: 284 McNeal Hall
Phone: (612) 625-4270
E-mail: mstum@umn.edu
Mailing Address: 290 McNeal Hall
Scholarly interests: Aging Families and Long-Term Care, Economic Well-Being, Decision-Making Issues and Processes in Later Life Families, Intergenerational Resource Transfers.

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William Turner

Professor
(Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)
Office: 283 McNeal Hall
Phone: (612) 625-3735
E-mail: wlturner@umn.edu
Mailing Address: 290 McNeal Hall
Scholarly interests: Marriage and Family Therapy, Resiliency and the Strengths of African American Families, End of Life Care in African Americans, School and Family-Based Substance Abuse Prevention, Psychosocial Dimensions of Health, Illness and Disability.

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Liz Wieling

Associate Professor
(Ph.D., Iowa State University)
Office: 391 McNeal Hall
Phone: (612) 625-8106
E-mail: lwieling@umn.edu
Mailing Address: 290 McNeal Hall
Scholarly interests: Cross-cultural Couple and Family Therapy, Multiculturalism and Diversity in Clinical Work and Research, Disparities in Mental Health, Latino/a Mental Health, Evidence Based Treatments for Parenting (Parenting Through Change-Oregon), Prevention in Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Evidence Based Treatments for Mass Trauma across national and international contexts.

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Blong Xiong

Associate Professor
(Ph.D., University of Minnesota)
Office: 275g McNeal Hall
Phone: (612) 625-5582
E-mail: xiong008@umn.edu
Mailing Address: 290 McNeal Hall
Scholarly interests: Parent-adolescent Relationships in Immigrant Families, Adolescent Adjustment, Parent Education.

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Virginia Zuiker

Associate Professor
(Ph.D., The Ohio State University)
Office: 299e McNeal Hall
Phone: (612) 625-4225
E-mail: vzuiker@umn.edu
Mailing Address: 290 McNeal Hall
Scholarly interests: Family Resource Management, Family Economics, Home-based Employment, Hispanic Family Life.

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Sayali Amarapurkar

Lecturer
Office: 385 McNeal Hall
Phone: (612) 626-4556
E-mail: amar0011@umn.edu
Mailing Address: 290 McNeal Hall

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Liddy Hope

Teaching Specialist
Office: 385 McNeal Hall
Phone: (612) 626-4556
E-mail: hope0017@umn.edu
Mailing Address: 290 McNeal Hall

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John Jankord

Teaching Specialist
Office: 296 McNeal Hall
Phone: (612) 626-4901
E-mail: janko045@umn.edu
Mailing Address: 290 McNeal Hall

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Mary Jo Katras

Lecturer
Office: 392 McNeal Hall
Phone: (612) 625-2707
E-mail: mkatras@umn.edu
Mailing Address: 290 McNeal Hall

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Beth Magistad

Lecturer
Office: 385 McNeal Hall
Phone: (612) 626-4556
E-mail: bmagista@umn.edu
Mailing Address: 290 McNeal Hall

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Brier Miller Minor

Teaching Specialist
Office: 296 McNeal Hall
Phone: (612) 626-4901
E-mail: bmillerm@umn.edu
Mailing Address: 290 McNeal Hall

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Kristine Piescher

Lecturer
Office: 290c McNeal Hall
E-mail: kpiesche@umn.edu
Mailing Address: 290 McNeal Hall

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Aysem Senyurekli

Lecturer
Office: 296 McNeal Hall
Phone: (612) 626-4901????
E-mail: kara0100@umn.edu
Mailing Address: 290 McNeal Hall

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Pauline Boss

Professor Emeritus
(Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Office: 299h McNeal Hall
Phone: (612) 625-5289
E-mail: pboss@umn.edu
Mailing Address: 290 McNeal Hall
Scholarly interests: Family Therapy, Family Stress and Coping, Ambiguous Loss - Caregiving for Families Dealing with Alzheimer's and Missing Family Members, Immigrant Families, Women's Issues.

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Harold Grotevant

Professor Emeritus
(Ph.D., University of Minnesota)
Rudd Family Foundation Chair in Psychology
Univeristy of Massachusetts-Amherst
619 Tobin Hall
135 Hicks Way
Amherst, MA 01003
E-mail: hgroteva@psych.umass.edu
Scholarly interests: Adoptive Families, Adolescent Development in the Family, Identity Development, Family Assessment and Methodology.

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M. Janice Hogan

Professor Emeritus
(Ph.D., Michigan State University)
Office: 299f McNeal Hall
Phone: (612) 625-6766
E-mail: jhogan@umn.edu
Mailing Address: 290 McNeal Hall
Scholarly interests: Decision Making, Gender Roles, Financial Issues, Resource Management, Family Ecology.

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James Maddock

Professor Emeritus
(Ph.D., University of Chicago)
Office: 299f McNeal Hall
Phone: (612) 625-6766
E-mail: james.maddock@worldnet.att.net
Mailing Address: 290 McNeal Hall
Scholarly interests: Sexuality in Families, Child/Family Sexual Abuse, Gender and Family Violence, Marital and Family Therapy, Personal Values and Professional Ethics, Family Ecology Theory.

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David Olson

Professor Emeritus
(Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University)
E-mail: dolson@prepare-enrich.com
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Scholarly interests: Circumplex Model of Marital and Family Assessment, Family Strengths and Diversity.

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Shirley Zimmerman

Professor Emeritus
(Ph.D., University of Minnesota)
Office: 299h McNeal Hall
Phone: (612) 625-5289
E-mail: szimmerm@umn.edu
Mailing Address: 290 McNeal Hall
Scholarly interests: Family Policy, Family-Government Connection, State Expenditures and Individual and Family Well-Being, Families in Political Context.

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