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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

(Listed alphabetically by last name)

Dr. George Alter is director of the Population Institute for Research and Training and  a professor in the Department of History at Indiana University Bloomington. He received his Ph.D. in History from the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests include historical demography, economic history, and family life, and recent research has included comparative studies of demographic responses to economic stress in Europe and Asia.  He is currently principal investigator of an international project on "Early-life Conditions, Social Mobility, and Longevity" funded by the National Institute on Aging. 

Dr. Rene Weiner Aubourg has been Deputy Director at the Money and Economic Analysis Department of the Banque de la Republique d'Haiti (Haiti's Central Bank) since September 1995.  He earned a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the State University of Haiti, MPA and MSES degrees from SPEA, Indiana University and graduated in May 1999 with a Ph.D. degree in EnvironmentalSciences from that same institution.  His expertise is in quantitative policy analysis: environmental economic modeling, economic impact analysis, time series analysis (co-integration analysis) and computable general equilibrium models. 

 

Dr. William H. Barton is a professor in the School of Social Work at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. He received his Ph.D. in Social Work and Psychology from the University of Michigan. His research interests focus primarily on juvenile justice program and policy evaluation, community corrections, child welfare and youth development.  He is a member of the American Society of Criminology, the American Evaluation Association and the National Association of Social Workers. 

Dr. Robert E. Billingham is associate professor of Human Development/Family Studies in the Department of Applied Health Science at Indiana University Bloomington. He received his Ph.D. in Child Development and Family Relations from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.  Dr. Billingham is a clinical member of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapists. His research interests include families, divorce, sexual abuse, courtship violence and substance abuse. In addition, Dr. Billingham presents parenting and child development classes for the Monroe County YMCA and offers training for the Monroe County Guardian Ad Litem program.

Dr. Lorraine C. Blackman is an associate professor in the School of Social Work at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. She received her Ph.D. in Social Work from Florida State University with a focus on marriage and family life education among African-Americans.  Dr. Blackman currently serves as President of the Indiana Council on Family Relations and a national consultant on marriage policy.  She was part of the Indiana Coalition for Human Services' Board of Directors and the Family Support/Family Preservation Task Force for the State of Indiana.  She served as President of the Survivors of Violent Death, a collaboration among the Indiana Chapter of the National Association of Black Social Workers, Robinson Community AME Church, the Minority Advisory Council, Parents of Murdered Children and Survivors of Homicide to address the issues of community violence and to create a support group for inner city survivors of violence.  She is a member of the National Association of Social Workers and the National Association of Black Social Workers.   

Dr. John Edward Bodnar is a professor of History and director of the Oral History Research Center at Indiana University Bloomington. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut. Dr. Bodnar’s book, Remaking America was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1992, and was reviewed by the New York Times Book Review. His research interests are in gender and ethnic issues with a particular specialty in the experiences of immigrants.

Dr. Richard C. Burke is a professor of Telecommunications at Indiana University Bloomington. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He served as the field project manager for a family planning initiative in Cairo, Egypt. Books he authored include The Use of Radio in Adult Literacy Education. He has served as a consultant to US AID and the World Bank on numerous occasions.

Dr. Doris-Jean Burton is assistant chair and adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Indiana University Bloomington. She received her Ph.D. in education from Indiana University. Her research interests include gender and children’s issues. She has written extensively on such issues as women’s professional development, pornography, pregnancy and sexual discrimination. Dr. Burton served as President of the Indiana Political Science Association from 1991-92.

 

Dr. Judith A. Chafel  is a professor in the School of Education at Indiana University Bloomington. She received her Ph.D. in Early Education and Child Development from the University of Illinois, Urbana. Dr. Chafel has written extensively on children and poverty. She was a Congressional Science Fellow (1989-90) for the Committee on Ways and Means, U.S. House of Representatives. She has served on the Task Force on Early Childhood Education and as a faculty consultant to the Hoosier Courts Cooperative Nursery School.

William A. Corsaro is Robert H. Shaffer Class of 1967 Endowed Professor of Sociology at Indiana University. From 1990-1994, he served as Chair of the Department of Sociology. Dr. Corsaro received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His research interests include social psychology; the sociology of childhood; children's peer cultures and early childhood from a comparative perspective; qualitative research methods, including ethnography, participant observation and cross-cultural comparative analysis. He received a post-doctoral research fellowship from the National Institute of Mental Health in 1974-75 and a second grant in 1976. He has also received grants from the Spencer Foundation (1988, 1990, 2003) and the W. T. Grant Foundation (1990). He received a Fulbright Senior Research Award in Bologna, Italy in 1983-84 and a Fulbright Senior Specialist Grant in Trondheim, Norway in 2003. Dr. Corsaro is a grant proposal referee for the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute of Education, the National Science Foundation, the Spencer Foundation and the W.T. Grant Foundation.

 

Dr. Lynn Duggan is an assistant professor in the Division of Labor Studies at IU Bloomington. She received her Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amhurst  in 1993. Before coming to Bloomington, she was employed as Visiting Assistant Professor in the Political Economy Program at Michigan State University and as a researcher for two unions in the retail and service sectors.  Her research has focused on family policy and costs of children in East and West Germany; wages, working conditions, and public assistance of employees in the US retail industry; the economic position of women in third world economic development; free trade and social policy; and population control/reproductive rights.  Her work appears in Feminist Economics, Comparative Economic Studies, the National Women's Studies Association Journal, Vierteljahreshefte zur Wirtschaftsfoschung; and in several anthologies.  She is co-editor of The Women, Gender and Development Reader, Zed Press, London, 1997.

Dr. Ellen Dwyer is an associate professor in the departments of Criminal Justice and History at Indiana University Bloomington. She received her Ph.D. in history from Yale. Dr. Dweyer is currently working on a book length manuscript: Social History of Epilepsy in the US, 1895-1950. Her teaching interests include American Legal History, History of Social Control in the US, Social History of Medicine in the US, History of Women and the family in the US, US History to 1865, Social Science Methods, and Public Policy and History. Dr. Dweyer is currently the Chair of the Women's History Thematic Field in the Department of History; is an elected member of Indiana University Bloomington Graduate Council; and is a member of the Advisory Committee for the Office of Woman's Affairs.

 

Dr. Karen Evans is an assistant professor of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University Northwest, where she teaches courses in public management, public policy processes, executive leadership, and organization theory.  She received her MPA from the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University in 1992 and her Ph.D. from the Center for Public Administration and Policy at Virginia Tech in 1998.  Prior to the completion of her graduate education, she worked for the Cuyahoga County Department of Human Services in Cleveland, Ohio, for 19 years, the last ten of which were in managerial positions.  Her research interests center on democratic theory, pragmatism, administrative structure and reform, and the new sciences.  Her work has been published in Public Administration Review, Administration & Society, Public Integrity, and Administrative Theory and Praxis.  She has co-authored a chapter in Public Management Reform and Innovation: Research, Theory and Application (H.G. Frederiskson and J.M. Johnson, eds., 1999: University of Alabama Press), and has published chapters in New Sciences for Public Administration and Policy: Connections and Reflections (G. Morcol and L.F. Dennard, eds., 2000: Chatelaine Press) and in The Transformative Power of Dialogue (N.C. Roberts, ed., 2002: Elsevier Science).

 

Dr. Millicent Fleming-Moran is an associate professor in the Department of Applied Health Sciences, School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation at Indiana University Bloomington. She received her Ph.D. in Epidemiology from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.  Her research interests are focused on chronic diseases in aging and minority populations, and endemic infectious diseases in Latin America.  She also worked as a Research Lecturer at the University of Arizona and as the Project Manager for the Indiana Knee Arthritis Cohort Study. She has also authored many articles on health and society. She is a member of the American Public Health Association, Society for Epidemiological Research, and Society of Behavioral Medicine among other organizations.

Dr. Deborah Lewis Fravel is an assistant professor in the Department of Applied Health Science at Indiana University Bloomington. She received her Ph.D. in Family Social Science from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Her research interests lie in the general area of family stress and coping, particularly in issues faced by adoptive families and birth parents, and families of missing children.  Dr. Fravel directs the Indiana site of the Minnesota/Texas Adoption Research Project [MTARP], a longitudinal, national research study of adoptive families and birth mothers, and variations in adoption openness.  She developed and teaches a course, Dynamics of Birth- and Adoptive Family Systems. 

Dr. Sandra French is  Professor of Sociology and the Director of the Master in Liberal Studies Program at Indiana University Southeast.  She received her Ph.D. in sociology at Tulane University.  She is the author of articles concerning women and minorities in public accounting, affirmative action, polio survivors, and relationship violence appearing in such publications as Sociological Focus, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, and International Advances in Public Accounting.  She has served on the Board of Directors of the Southern Indiana Transitional Shelter for Abused Women and their Children and as Chair of the Public Policy Committee for the North Central Sociological Association. 

 

 
Dr. Kathleen R. Gilbert
is an associate professor in the Department of Applied Health Science at Indiana University Bloomington. She received her doctorate in Child Development and Family Studies from Purdue University. Her research interests are in family traumatic stress and coping, grief and coping in families, interactive bereavement and coping with loss, families and health, minority families and qualitative methods of research. She has written extensively on the grieving process. Dr. Gilbert has served on the Boards of the National Council on Family Relations and the Association for Death Education and Counseling, as well as serving as president of the Indiana Council on Family Relations.  She teaches an on-line course on grief in the family, www.indiana.edu/~famlygrf, which has been very successful.

Dr. Roberta Greene is a professor and dean at the Indiana School of Social Work and CEO for Campus System Schools. She received her Ph.D. in Human Development from the University of Maryland, along with her Certificate in Aging. Dr. Greene's research interests include the field of the aged and their families and policy practice of Social Work in the field of aging. She is a member of the National Association of Social Workers, Gerontological Society of America, National Conference on Jewish Commercial Service, and the Council on Social Work Education.

Dr. Kirsten A. Gronbjerg holds the Efroymson Chair in Philanthropy at the Center on Philanthropy, is a professor at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University Bloomington, and adjunct professor of Sociology at Indiana University Bloomington.  She received her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago. Dr. Gronbjerg's interests focus on the structure of public and nonprofit human service systems.  Her current work examines the scope and community dimensions of the Indiana nonprofit sector.  Her professional memberships include the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, and the American Sociological Association.

 

Dr. Leda McIntyre Hall is an associate professor of Public and Environmental Affairs and the Assistant Dean and Program Director, Indiana University South Bend.  She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Wayne State University.  She regularly serves as a consultant for various local government and not-for-profit agencies.  She is a member of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action, the National Association for Schools of Public Affairs and Administration, the Urban Affairs Association, and the U.S.-Mexico Consortium of Schools of Public Administration.  Her research interests include the nonprofit sector, particularly faith-based organizations, and community development.   

Dr. Rick Hug is assistant professor of public administration in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University Northwest. His research interests include child welfare, poverty and the poor, social service delivery, minorities and aging and gerontology.

 

Dr. Kerry Krutilla is an associate professor in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University Bloomington. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Duke University. Dr. Krutilla is one of six Indiana University faculty members sitting on the Advisory Board of the Indiana University Center for the Study of Institutions, Population and Environmental Change (CIPEC), a Multidisciplinary research center. In 1992 he received a Policy Article Prize from the Center for International Food and Agricultural Policy at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Krutilla’s research has been supported by grants from the Department of Energy, the Department of Agriculture and the World Bank.

 

Dr. Robert Lehnen is a professor at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, where he is the Director of the Education Policy Office. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Iowa. Dr. Lehnen's professional memberships include the American Statistical Association, where he is the representative to the Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics, the American Society for Public Administration, and the American Education Research Association. He is also a consultant to the Marion County Public Library, and has done extensive research on Indiana School Districts.

 

Joyce Y. Man is associate professor at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Bloomington. She received her Ph.D. in economics at John Hopkins University. Membership includes the American Economic Association and the National Tax Association.

Dr. Edwin Cochran Marshall is a Professor of Optometry and the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Student Administration at the Indiana University School of Optometry and an Adjunct Professor of Public Health at the Indiana University School of Medicine.  He earned his OD from Indiana University in 1971, his MS from Indiana University in 1979, and his MPH from the University of North Carolina in 1982.  He is a past President of the Indiana Optometric Association and the Indiana Public Health Association, and currently is Vice Chair of the Executive Board of the American Public Health Association, Chair of the Minority Health Care Data and Quality Subcommittee of the Indiana Commission on Excellence in Health Care.  In 2000 Dr. Marshall completed a US Public Health Service Primary Care Policy Fellowship with the US Department of Health and Human Services.  His professional interests include health policy; systems of health care delivery and access; health resource development and workforce analysis; epidemiology of eye, vision, and related disorders; health professions education; minority health; and international health.  He has published in journals such as the Journal of the American Optometric Association, Optometry and Vision Science, and Optometric Education. 

Dr. Rose Mays is an Associate Professor in the School of Nursing at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. She received her Ph.D. in parent/child nursing from the University of Texas. Dr. Mays research interests include health care for vulnerable or underserved populations of children--specifically, adolescents and individuals with disabilities. 

Dr. Eugene B. McGregor is Professor of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University Bloomington. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Syracuse University. Dr. McGregor has written extensively on public management issues. In 1990, he was a visiting professor in the Department of Public Administration at Erasmus University of Rotterdam and Leiden University. He is a member of the Academy of Management, the American Political Science Association, the Association for Public Policy and Management and the American Society for Public Administration.

Dr. Lisa E. McGuire is an Assistant Professor at the Indiana University School of Social Work. She received her Masters in Social Work from Indiana University and her Ph.D. in Social Work from Case Western Reserve University. Her research interests include public housing, the organization of neighborhood services and health care for women and children. She has supervised programs to assist teen mothers, in-home protective services for child abuse victims, and comprehensive service delivery for families in need. In addition, she is a consultant for the prenatal care coordinator training project and has consulted for the Child Abuse Treatment and Training Center.  Dr. McGuire is the Principal Investigator for the partnership between the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration and the IU School of Social Work to provide professional social work education for child welfare supervisors and administrators.  

Dr. Jane D. McLeod is Associate Professor of Sociology at Indiana University Bloomington. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor with an emphasis in social psychology.  Her research interests include stratification, the life course, and medical sociology.  Recent projects include a study of Indiana foster children, and an analysis of public attitudes towards the use of psychotropic medications for children.  She is currently Chair-Elect of the Mental Health section of the American Sociological Association, and director of the training program in Identity, Self, Role, and Mental Health.

Ms. Debbie Melloan-Ruiz is a counselor in the Sexual Assault Crisis Service at Indiana University Bloomington. She has twenty years of experience working in the area of sexual assault.  She is a member of the Indiana University Commission on Personal Safety, Sexual Assault Providers' Network, and the GLBT Anti-Harassment Team. 

Dr. John Mikesell is a professor of public and environmental affairs at Indiana University. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Illinois. Dr. Mikesell has worked on fiscal studies for several states, including New York, Minnesota, Indiana, and Hawaii.  He has served on World Bank mission to the Kyrgyz Republic, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Azerbaijan.  His primary research and teaching interests are in the areas of government budgeting and finance, state and local public finance, and the public finances of transition economics.  He has received the Wlldavsky Award for Scholarly Achievement from the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management.  Dr. Mikesell is the Editor in Chief for the Public Budgeting and Finance, and is the author of many books, including Fiscal Administration:  Analysis and Applications for the Public Sector.

 

Dr. John R. Ottensmann is a professor in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs and Associate Director of the Center for Urban Policy and the Environment at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.  He has done analyses for public libraries, health care providers, and the Catholic Diocese of Cleveland involving location choices and the valuation of services.  He has written extensively on urban planning and the delivery of social services in urban areas. 

 

Dr. David L. Ransel is Robert F. Byrnes Professor of History and director of the Russian and East European Institute at Indiana University.  He received his Ph.D. in Russian History from Yale University.  His research interest include women, family and children's issues in East Europe and Russia.  Dr. Ransel recently published a history of maternity in Russia and the USSR.  He is currently at work on a study of a provincial merchant family in 18th century Russia and on an oral interview project about attachment of workers in the industrial suburbs of Moscow to basic social institutions, including the family. 

Dr. David A. Reingold is an assistant professor in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University Bloomington. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago. He served as a program evaluator for the Center for the Study of Urban Inequality at the University of Chicago, as a program implementor for the Governor’s Task Force on Human Services Reform in Illinois, program implementor and evaluator in the Office of the Inspector General within the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services and as a Field Associate for the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government. His research interests include urban poverty, low-income housing, and community development corporations.

Dr. Edwardo L. Rhodes is a professor in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University Bloomington. He received his A.B. from Princeton University and Ph.D. in Urban and Public Affairs from Carnegie-Mellon University. From 1980 to 1981, he served as an Economic Policy Fellow at The Brookings Institution and has also served as an operations research analyst for the Office of the U.S. Secretary of the Interior and was a Senior Fellow in 1993 to 1994 in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.  From 1995 to 1996 he was the Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs for Indiana University.   His research interests include operations research and economic tools.

Dr. Dennis M. Rome is associate professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at Indiana University, Bloomington. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from Washington State University. He is the recipient of the Fulbright Scholars Award and the Carnegie National Scholarship.  He has conducted a racial and economic assessment survey for the Five Oaks community, in Dayton Ohio; a police misconduct survey in Ohio and a study of the characteristics of growth in a small village.  He has written extensively on racial issues in American public policy. 

Dr. Barry Michael Rubin is a professor in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University Bloomington. He received his Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Analysis from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He served as an information systems design consultant to the Marion County Child Welfare Department from Spring 1989 to Spring 1992 and has held numerous other management information systems consulting positions. He is the principal investigator and project director for a research grant from the National Institute for Global Environmental Change, U.S. Department of Energy which will undertake an integrated assessment of the economic, ecologic and energy demand impacts of global climate change on the great lakes basin and conduct a policy analysis to determine the optimal mitigation and adaptation policies.

Dr. Myrtle Scott  is an assistant professor of educational psychology in the School of Education at Indiana University Bloomington. Her research interests include developmental psychology, cross-cultural studies, the family, and child development.

Dr. Richard S. Steinberg is a professor of Economics at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania. His research interest is in the economics of nonprofits and he has written extensively in this area. He is the Associate Editor of Nonprofit Management and Leadership and serves on the management board of Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics.

 

Dr. David Takeuchi is Professor of Sociology at Indiana University, Bloomington. His program of research focuses on: (a) understanding the social factors that contribute to the uneven distribution of health and illness in minority communities; and (b) investigating the use of mental health services among ethnic minority groups. In the first strand of research, he has conducted large scale epidemiologic studies of two of the largest Asian American ethnic groups, Chinese Americans and Filipino Americans. The second strand of research focuses on the entry and treatment of ethnic minorities who have a serious mental illness. Work in this area has examined how people come into mental health treatment, the relative importance of the social distance between therapist and consumer, and the effectiveness of ethnic‑specific programs. He is also a faculty member of the Family Research Consortium III which is a national postdoctoral program involving over fifteen universities and colleges across the country. The training program involves working with postdoctoral fellows in conducting meaningful research in ethnic and racial minority communities.

 

Debra S. Unger is coordinator of Therapeutic Programs at the Bradford Woods Outdoor and Leadership Center for the Indiana University Department of Recreation and Park Administration. The therapeutic program provides alternative approaches to meeting the needs of a broad spectrum of populations including youth-at-risk, adjudicated youth and battered women.

 

Dr. Gail G. Whitchurch is Associate Professor of Communication Studies, and Adjunct Associate Professor of Sociology, at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. She earned her Ph.D. in Family Studies from the University of Delaware and her MA in Communication Studies from the University of Minnesota.  She did postdoctoral work in Marriage and Family Therapy at Butler University.  Her research interests include applied couple and family communication, and Irish language and culture.  She is a member of the National Council on Family Relations, where she has earned the credential of Certified Family Life Educator (CFLE), and the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, where she has earned the rank of Clinical Member.  She has written extensively on applied family communication. 

 

Dr. Marty E. Zusman is a professor of Sociology at Indiana University Northwest where he served as Chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology from 1980 to 1995.  He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Indiana University, Bloomington, specializing in research methodology.  His current research interests are in conflict resolution and college student relationships to family and friends.   

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