University of Minnesota College of Education and Human Development Department of Family Social Science

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	Faculty
	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 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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 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 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. 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 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 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 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. 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 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 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Sayali Amarapurkar Lecturer Office: 385 McNeal Hall Phone: (612) 626-4556 E-mail: amar0011@umn.edu Mailing Address: 290 McNeal Hall Liddy Hope Teaching Specialist Office: 385 McNeal Hall Phone: (612) 626-4556 E-mail: hope0017@umn.edu Mailing Address: 290 McNeal Hall John Jankord Teaching Specialist Office: 296 McNeal Hall Phone: (612) 626-4901 E-mail: janko045@umn.edu Mailing Address: 290 McNeal Hall Mary Jo Katras Lecturer Office: 392 McNeal Hall Phone: (612) 625-2707 E-mail: mkatras@umn.edu Mailing Address: 290 McNeal Hall Beth Magistad Lecturer Office: 385 McNeal Hall Phone: (612) 626-4556 E-mail: bmagista@umn.edu Mailing Address: 290 McNeal Hall Brier Miller Minor Teaching Specialist Office: 296 McNeal Hall Phone: (612) 626-4901 E-mail: bmillerm@umn.edu Mailing Address: 290 McNeal Hall Kristine Piescher Lecturer Office: 290c McNeal Hall E-mail: kpiesche@umn.edu Mailing Address: 290 McNeal Hall Aysem Senyurekli Lecturer Office: 296 McNeal Hall Phone: (612) 626-4901???? E-mail: kara0100@umn.edu Mailing Address: 290 McNeal Hall 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. 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. 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. 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. David Olson Professor Emeritus (Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University) E-mail: dolson@prepare-enrich.com Information on FACES Information on PREPARE-ENRICH Scholarly interests: Circumplex Model of Marital and Family Assessment, Family Strengths and Diversity. 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.