Faculty

School/Dept/College

Policy Interests

Research Interests

Savilla Banister

School of Teaching & Learning

College EDHD

E.C. family access to digital technologies (digital divide issues)
Appropriate early childhood experiences with technologies in & out of school

Digital equity

Kim Christensen

School of Intervention Services

College EDHD

Tom Chibucos

School of Family & Consumer Sciences

College EDHD

Family Policy Implementation, Policy Analysis Research Methodology

William Kyle Ingle

School of Leadership & Policy Studies

College EDHD

Broad-based merit aid programs (e.g. Georgia HOPE Scholarship, Florida Bright Futures)
Teacher quality
Teacher attrition
Teacher evaluation policies

Teacher Quality
Teacher Hiring
Teacher Attrition
Personnel Evaluation
Innovation Diffusion Theory

Eric Jones*

School of Intervention Services

College EDHD

Disability
After school and before school programs
Parent advocacy
School/community agency limitations
Poverty

Education
Community mental health
Law enforcement/youth
Anti-poverty

Jean M. Gerard

School of Family & Consumer Sciences

College EDHD

Children & poverty
Juvenile delinquency

Child custody
Children of divorce
Divorce mediation

Molly Laflin

School of Family & Consumer Sciences

College EDHD

Alcohol, tobacco, and other drug abuse prevention
Human sexuality
Information retrieval

Bob Lee

School of Human Movement, Sport, & Leisure

College EDHD

Promoting family recreation
Strengthening family cohesiveness and health  

Intergenerational recreation Family leisure and social support

Rich Oldrieve*

School of Teaching & Learning

College EDHD

Early childhood reading
Math
No Child Left Behind interventions
Urban Education  

K-12 Reading Assessment K-3 Reading
Phonics
K-5 Math
Brain research related to education
Urban Education
Response to Intervention  

Patrick Pauken

School of Leadership and Policy Studies

College EDHD

Special education (primarily law)

Education law
Church/State relations
Religion in schools
Youth violence
Cyberspace, technology
Ethics, professionalism (codes, self- regulation)

Susan Peet*

School of Family & Consumer Sciences

College EDHD

Child, family, & school partnerships especially
among at-risk or high risk youth
Literacy in early childhood within family context

Father involvement in literacy
Financial literacy in low income families

Rebecca Pobocik

School of Family & Consumer Sciences

College EDHD

Nutrition
School nutrition
Maternal and child nutrition
Obesity
Licensure for dietitians

Community nutrition
Diet assessment
Breast feeding
School-based nutrition education
Children's nutrition
Food pattern formation
Weight management

Gardner Umbarger

School of Intervention Services

College EDHD

Health care reform
Medicaid
Public policies affecting families who have children with disabilities

Education, health, and disability policies affecting children with disabilities and their families
Evidence-based interventions in educational and other settings

Rachel Vannatta

Educational Foundations and Inquiry

College EDHD

Related policy on developing effective technology users

Early access to technology
Impacts of technology, self-efficacy, and use

Ruben Viramontez Anguiano

School of Family & Consumer Sciences

College EDHD

Latino Families
Family Diversity