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CHHD Certificate Year

2006

Marjolijn Blom, Ph.D.

Human Development and Family Studies

Currently

Dr. Blom is a Senior Adviser to the Council for Health and Society, and agency of the Government of the Netherlands.

 

CHHD Project:

  • Culturally regulated early experience and the establishment of diurnal rhythms in the Netherlands and the U.S. Presented at the meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development, Melbourne, Australia, July 2006. 

CHHD Certificate Year: 2015

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Carmen Britton, Ph.D.

Human Development and Family Sciences

Currently

Dr. Britton is a Research Program Coordinator for the Healthy Relationships Team, Research Administration, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing.

 

CHHD Project:

  • Limitations and Strengths of Individual Level Assessments: Informing Goals and Setting Qualities in the Phillippines. Presented at the meeting of the Association of Professional Behavior Analysts, April 2016, Washington, D.C.

Recent CHHD Related Projects:

  • The Healthy Relationships Team (HRT) is focused on advancing sexual and reproductive health equity among marginalized youth and young adults. Our current projects are mixed methods and focus on building foundational violence and HIV prevention science. Our work also aims to increase Latinx, Black, and sexual minority women's representation and involvement in health-related research. We are an interdisciplinary team of students and scholars committed to social justice and community-based research.

CHHD Certificate Year: 2018

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Daniell Caravalheiro

Human Development and Family Sciences

Currently

A graduate research and teaching assistant at the University of Connecticut.

 

CHHD Project:

  • Carvalheiro, D., Harkness, S., & Super, C. M. Parents’ and Teachers’ Ideas about Involvement. Poster presented at annual meeting of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, March 2017, New Orleans, LA.

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CHHD Certificate Year

2017

Paola Chanes-Mora, Ph.D.

Public Health

Currently

Dr. Chanes-Mora is a Research and Science Technical Advisor for the U.S. Department of State.

 

CHHD Project:

  • The role of fathers in the sexual health education of their children in Haiti.  Paper presented at the meeting of the American Public Health Association, November 2017, Philadelphia, PA.

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CHHD Certificate Year

2005

Xin Feng, Ph.D.

Human Development and Family Studies

Currently

Dr. Feng is an Associate Professor in the Department of Human Sciences at Ohio State University.

 

CHHD Project:

  • Responses of shy and non-shy Chinese children to an unfamiliar situation. Presented at the meeting of the International Association for the Study of Behavioral Development, Melbourne, Australia, July 2006.

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CHHD Certificate Year

2006

Marcia Hughes, Ph.D.

Human Development and Family Studies

Currently

Dr. Hughes is a Research and Evaluation Analyst at the Center for Social Research at the University of Hartford in Connecticut.

 

CHHD Project:

  • The impact of parental involvement and support on adolescent adjustment within the context of an intervention program. Presented at the meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development, Melbourne, Australia, July 2006.

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CHHD Certificate Year

2005

Danijela Korom-Djakovic, Ph.D.

Human Development and Family Studies

Currently

Dr. Korom-Djakovic is a Senior Evaluation Consultant at McClanahan Associates.

 

CHHD Project:

  • American, Dutch, and Spanish mothers’ ethnotheories about infant stimulation. Presented at the meeting of the International Association for the Study of Behavioral Development, Ghent, Belgium, July, 2004.

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CHHD Certificate Year

2019

Laura Labato

Communications

Currently

Completing graduate studies to complete a Ph.D. in Communications and is the Program Coordinator of the Global Training & Development Institute.

 

CHHD Project:

  • Labato, Laura .  Positive signs: Reducing stigma of deaf culture by increasing sign language awareness.  Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, April 2019, Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico.

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CHHD Certificate Year

2015

Jia Li Liu, Ph.D.

Human Development and Family Sciences

Currently

Dr. Liu was the 2018-19 Calvin J. Li Postdoctoral Fellow in the Asian American Studies Program at the University of Maryland.

 

CHHD Project:

  • Liu, J.-L., Harkness, S., & Super, C. M. Chinese Maternal Ethnotheories about Children’s Shyness (2015). Poster presented at Biennial Meeting of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, April 2015, Boston, MA.

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CHHD Certificate Year

2007

Caroline Mavridis, Ph.D.

Human Development and Family Studies

Currently

Dr. Mavridis is the Assistant Director of the Center for the Study of Culture, Health, and Human Development (CHHD) at the University of Connecticut.

 

CHHD Project:

  • Beyond the Edinburgh score: Experiences and activities of mothers at varied risk of postpartum depression.

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CHHD Certificate Year

2015

Jennifer Ramirez, Ph.D.

Psychological Studies

Currently

Dr. Ramirez is a Clinical Psychologist at Texas Children’s Hospital Pavilion for Women and Assistant Professor at Baylor College of Medicine. 

 

CHHD Project:

  • Ramirez, J., Oshin, L., & Milan, S.  (2017). Imagining her future: Diversity in mothers’ socialization goals for their adolescent daughters.  Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 48(4), 593-610.

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CHHD Certificate Year

2007

Nivedita Ranade, Ph.D.

Human Development and Family Studies

Currently

Dr. Ranade is a Senior Evaluation Associate and Project Manager at Creative Research Solutions, LLC.

 

CHHD Project:

  • Sleep and activity patterns of American and Dutch infants.

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CHHD Certificate Year

2018

Alexander Reid, Ph.D.

Human Development and Family Studies

Currently

Dr. Reid is an Assistant Professor of Child, Adolescent, and Family Studies at California State University Bakersfield.

 

CHHD Project:

  • Cultural Values and Gender as Moderators in the Association Between Negative Romantic Experiences and Psychological Adjustment in Mexican Adolescents.

CHHD Certificate Year: 2005

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Beth Russell, Ph.D.

Human Development and Family Studies

Currently

Dr. Russell is an Associate Professor and Associate Department Head for Undergraduate Studies in HDFS at the University of Connecticut.

 

CHHD Project:

  • Longitudinal links in maternal mood from three cultures: The Netherlands, Spain and the United States. Presented at the meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Atlanta, Georgia, March 2005.

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CHHD Certificate Year

2018

Khris-Ann Small, Ph.D.

Human Development and Family Studies

Currently

Dr. Small is a Research and Assessment Analyst at the University of Maryland.

 

CHHD Project:

  • Small, K.-A., Harkness, S., & Super, C. M.  (2017). Black Parents’ Experiences with the Positive Parenting Program. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, March 2017, New Orleans, LA.

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CHHD Certificate Year

2007

Mary Sutherland, Ph.D.

Human Development and Family Studies

Currently

Dr. Sutherland is a Speech-Language Pathologist at Johnson Memorial Medical Center and an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

 

CHHD Project:

  • Stability of frustration reactivity, cortisol levels and regulation behaviors of 2- and 6-month-old US infants during arm restraint. Dr. Sutherland currently lives in Amherst, Mass.

CHHD Certificate Year: 2018

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Marea Tsamaase, Ph.D.

Human Development and Family Studies

Currently

Dr. Tsamaase is a Lecturer and Coordinator of the ECE program at the University of Botswana.

 

CHHD Project:

  • Tsamaase, M. M., Harkness, S., & Super, C. M. (2017). Working mothers’ perceptions of child care and attachment in Botswana. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, March 2017, New Orleans, LA.  Currently under review for publication.

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CHHD Certificate Year

2019

Yuan Zhang

Human Development and Family Sciences

Currently

Completing graduate studies to complete a Ph.D. in HDFS.

 

CHHD Project:

  • Zhang, Y., Liu, J.L., Ng, F., Harkness, S., & Super, C.M. Chinese parents’ perception of Children’s Shyness. Poster presented at 32th APS Annual Convention, Association of Psychological Science, May 2020, Chicago, Illinois.