Jeffrey Angera, Ph.D. in Human Development and Family Studies, Iowa State University.

Contact info.: anger1jj@cmich.edu, 989-774-2760, EHS 412K

Research Interests: Dr. Angera is interested in understanding and enhancing close relationships; developing empathy skills; premarital and marital enhancement; and clinical issues in marital and family therapy.

Deborah C. Bailey, Ph.D., CFLE, in Child & Family Ecology, Michigan State University

Contact info: baile2dc@cmich.edu, 989-774-5600, EHS 412P

Research Interests: Dr. Bailey’s research interests are in learning processes as they relate to family life. In particular looking at questions that deal with how individuals change their beliefs and behaviors in relation to the structure and processes of family rituals and routines. Current research focuses on participants within family life education and intervention programs as well as student learning and engagement in family science courses.

Teaching Interests: Family Life Education Methodology, Family Resource Management, Consumer Economics, and Family & Consumer Science Teacher Education.

Phame Camarena, Ph.D. in Human Development and Family Studies, The Pennsylvania State University.

Contact info.: camar1pm@cmich.edu

Dr. Camarena is currently on leave from the HDFS Program while he is serving as the Director of the CMU Honors Program.  Although Dr. Camarena is not teaching in the HDFS Program at this time, he is available to work with students on areas related to his scholarly and professional interests including:  adjustment across the transition from adolescence to adulthood, the development of the self system across the lifespan, college as a context for human development, and the educational achievement of underrepresented groups.  Dr. Camarena can be contacted via email at camar1pm@cmich.edu. 

Megan Goodwin, Ph.D. in Child Development, Virginia Tech.

Contact info.: goodw1mp@cmich.edu, 989-774-7210, EHS 412B

Research Interests: Factors impacting the effectiveness of charter schools, children’s knowledge of and understanding of social issues.

Teaching Interests: Early childhood education and care, child development theory, and early childhood teacher training.

Mikiyasu Hakoyama, Ph.D. in Family and Child Ecology, Michigan State University

Contact info.: hakoy1@cmich.edu, 989-774-3743, EHS 440

Research Interests: Dr. Hakoyama's is interested in fatherhood, factors associated with quality of life in middle and late adulthood, and impacts of modern technologies in socio-emotional development. 

Teaching Interests: Dr. Hakoyama's teaching interests include human development, research methods, and quantitative data analysis. 

Chris Latty, Ph.D. in Family & Child Ecology (Marriage & Family Therapy specialization), Michigan State University

Contact info.: latty1cr@cmich.edu, 989-774-6433, EHS 412R

Research Interests: Dr. Latty is interested in alcohol use and sexual health particularly in college students. Additionally, he is interested in parent-child interactions, couple relationships, the realm marital and family therapy and therapeutic change.

Edgar C. J. Long, Ph.D. in Family Studies, Oregon State University

Contact info.: long1ec@cmich.edu, 989-774-2379, EHS 412D

Research Interests: Dr. Long is interested in empathy and the expression of empathy in marriage and romantic relationships as well as relationship intervention. He has developed and completed assessments of an empathy training program for couples. A more recent research interest is the contextual and intergenerational factors influencing fathers.

Eileen E. MaloneBeach, Ph.D. in Human Development & Family Studies, Pennsylvania State University

Contact info.: malon1ee@cmich.edu, 989-774-2004, EHS 412M

Research Interests: Dr. MaloneBeach's research interests include family caregiving to dependent elders; design of interventions that promote caregiver, family and elder well-being; HIV-AIDS in older adults and the portrayal of older adults in children’s literature.

Teaching Interests: Dr. MaloneBeach teaches in the areas of adult development and aging, family theory, gerontology theory, intervention theory and public policy.

Tierney Popp, MSW, Ph.D. in Family and Human Development, Arizona State University

Contact info:  popp1tk@cmich.edu, 989-774-7608, EHS 412 O

Research Interests:  Dr Popp's research interests include understanding processes and differential effectiveness of early intervention programs and examining parent-child relationships and social emotional development in high-risk infants and toddlers.  Additionally, she is interested in exploring issues related to infant and toddler mental health. 

Teaching Interests:  Dr. Popp's teaching is mainly in the area of infant/toddler development and parent-child relations.

Cheryl Priest, Ed.D. in Child and Youth Studies, Nova Southeastern University

Contact info.: pries1cn@cmich.edu, 989-774-3075, EHS 146C

Research Interests: Dr. Priest is interested in young children's social-emotional and moral development. Her current research focuses on character development and the use of service learning to support that development. Focusing on how adults can facilitate environments that support development, this research also addresses building life skills, developing social responsibility, growing friendships, and other topics centered around helping children (and the adults they will become) make good choices. Other research interests include children's views or "images" of older adults and influences on the development of those images.

Teaching Interests: Dr. Priest's teaching interests include the development of the young child, preschool teaching, early childhood program development and administration, and character development. She is also interested in helping new students successfully transition to college.

Pamela Sarigiani, Ph.D in Human Development and Family Studies, The Pennsylvania State University

Contact info.: sarig1pa@cmich.edu, 989-774-6451, EHS 412Q

Research Interests: Dr. Sarigiani's research interests include stress and coping in children and adolescents, parent-child relationships, and gender and mental health.

Teaching Interests: Dr. Sarigiani's teaching interests include child development (infancy through adolescence), parent-child relations, and children's stress and coping.

Kristy Shih, Ph.D. in Sociology, University of California, Riverside

Contact Info: shih1k@cmich.edu, 989-774-5600, 412P EHS

Research Interests: Dr. Shih’s research aims to challenge cultural essentialist assumptions that predominate in the family literature, which are reflected in a tendency to view racial/ethnic minority families as homogenous and without internal variation and thus reducing racial/ethnic family dynamics to ethnic values and ideals. Using qualitative in-depth interviews with mothers, sons, and daughters-in-law, Dr. Shih’s research engages a feminist analysis of gender and power dynamics as well as mothering and mother-in-law ideology in Taiwanese, Taiwanese American, and Mexican American families. This project considers how socio-structural factors account for between-group similarities and within-group variations. Other research projects include: 1) the adaptation of “parachute” children* from East Asia (*minor-aged children immigrated to the U.S. for educational purposes and who live apart from their parents), 2) acculturation processes and immigrant families.

Teaching Interests: Drawing on critical and feminist pedagogical approaches, Dr. Shih's teaching interests include family diversity, systems of social inequality, racial/ethnic minority and immigrant families, gender and power relations, and intergenerational family relationships.

Contact info: you1h@cmich.edu, 989-774-7609, EHS 412N

Research Interests: Dr. You is interested in a better understanding of motherhood and children with disabilities through a cross-cultural qualitative research approach. Her interests also include the acculturation processes of immigrant families in the United States.

Teaching Interests: Dr. You’s teaching background includes early childhood development, families from global perspectives and children and youth with special needs.