New Faculty Hires in SSFD: Fall
2007
Sarah Hayford. I received my PhD in demography from the University
of Pennsylvania in 2005. From 2005-2007, I was a postdoctoral fellow
in the Sociology
Department at Duke University, funded by a National Research Service
Award from the National Institutes of Health. My research focuses
on family behavior as an indicator of and reaction to social change,
both in developing and developed countries. I define family behavior
broadly -- my past research has analyzed female genital cutting
in Kenya, the transition to adulthood in the United States, and
adherence to the one-child policy in China. Recently I have focused
on the relationship between fertility intentions and behavior.
In my current projects, I am examining changes in fertility intentions
over the life course and the relationship between second birth
rates and women's employment around the first birth.
Jenny Trinitapoli.
New Staff Hires in SSFD: Fall 2007
Jiwan Goyal (Senior Grants/Contracts Administrator). I
graduated with a degree in accounting and have accumulated
18 years of financial and accounting experience. I have been
working at ASU since 1997, beginning with an accounting position
in Plant Biology, followed by a position in the School of Life
Sciences business office.
Heidi Haggas (Assistant to the Director). I graduated
with a Master of Social Work degree from Arizona State University
in 2007, and Bachelor
of Arts degrees
in Spanish and Psychology in 2004 from the University of Nebraska
at Omaha. I also have completed one year of graduate coursework
in Spanish Language and Culture, and have taught Spanish language
classes at Arizona State University. I have a macro concentration
in Social Work, known at ASU as the PAC program. This program focuses
on Program planning, Administration, and Community development.
I have worked for two years in the School of Social and Family
Dynamics on the Understanding School Success research project as
a Graduate Research Assistant. I have also worked for various social
service agencies. I enjoy working with families and the aging,
and am interested in program development.
Jean Memberto (Business Manager). I
received my business training in medical office management in the
private sector prior to applying
those principles
in the area
of college health at Arizona State University(October 1995). Working
in Campus Health Service has allowed me the opportunity to learn
and grow not only in my field of business management but to also
be a part of the ever expanding vision of the New American University.
Specific areas of interest are organization and operational development
centered around the philosophy of lifetime learning. My aim is
to work with faculty and staff to achieve the vision of this new
and exciting school by helping to foster an atmosphere of unity
and respect in all endeavors.
New Faculty Hires in SSFD: Fall
2006
Steven Haas (Social Demography). I received my
Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2004),
with a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University as a Robert
Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholar. My research addresses questions
that lie at the intersection of social stratification, and the demography
of health and aging. In particular my research investigates health
as both a cause and a consequence of social inequality with particular
interests in the processes that generate health disparities over
the life course. My current projects include an exploration of the
relative contribution of early life versus adult factors in determining
of trajectories of aging and disability, an analysis of the mechanisms
linking adolescent health to educational outcomes and the transition
to the labor market, and modeling the influence of childhood health
on labor market outcomes (earnings profiles, employment interruptions,
asset accumulation) over the work career.
Laudan Jahromi (Child, Adolescent, and Life Course Development).
I received my Ph.D. in Human Development and Family Studies
from the Pennsylvania State University (2004). My research interests
involve early emotion regulation, behavioral control, and executive
function in typical children and those with developmental disabilities.
I am particularly interested in exploring individual differences
in self-regulatory behaviors in children with Down syndrome and
autism. My current projects include the study of factors associated
with the development of emotional competence in children with autism,
the consequences of regulatory deficits on these children’s
social and behavioral competence, the influence of emotion regulation
on children’s engagement states and social-communication skills
with parents and typical peers, and the family outcomes associated
with varying levels of emotional self-regulation. I aim to apply
this research to interventions targeting social-emotional competence
in young children with autism.
Ariana Mikulski (Child, Adolescent, and Life Course Development).
I received my Ph.D. in Second Language Acquisition from the University
of Iowa in May 2006. My research examines the processes of language
acquisition, maintenance, and loss in Spanish-English bilinguals.
My current projects focus on the Spanish subjunctive in bilinguals
who are enrolled in university Spanish courses designed for heritage
learners; these studies investigate the participants’ ability
to recognize where the subjunctive verb form should be used as well
as their ability to produce it in the appropriate syntactic constructions.
Future research will include the study of the Spanish verbal repertoires
of child bilinguals and the role of language maintenance in ethnic/cultural
identity.
David Schaefer (Social Networks and Dynamics). I
will receive my Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Arizona
in May 2006. I am broadly interested in the social psychological
processes that create power, status, and solidarity within social
networks. My current research considers how the types of resources
exchanged in networks (i.e., information vs. social support) mediate
the advantage offered by particular network locations. I am particularly
interested in examining the relation between multiple types of outcomes
produced through network processes. Additional projects include
mapping the structure of inter-gang violence networks, modeling
dynamic networks in children, tracking attitudes through social
space, and developing a multidimensional measure of homophily in
relationships.
Alyson Shapiro (Child, Adolescent, and Life Course Development).
I received my Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from the
University of Washington (2004). The overall focus of my research
is on the social-emotional development of infants, children and
families. I take the perspective that development occurs within
a larger dynamic family system, and that it is vital to consider
the larger family context when examining infant and child development.
Specific areas of research interest include: dynamics within the
mother-father-infant-triad in both low and high risk families, coparenting,
father involvement, the impact of marital discord on early development,
cultural influences on family process, infant mental health, emotion
regulation and communication, psychophysiology, the couple's transition
to parenthood, and family focused preventative intervention. Along
with follow-up work on my existing research, there are two specific
areas where I plan to further develop and focus my research program:
1) pre-natal influences on fetal development, later infant outcome
and family functioning, and 2) family dynamics in at-risk families
with infants.
Brandon Yoo (Child, Adolescent, and Life Course Development).
I received my Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from the University
of Minnesota, Twin Cities (August 2006). My research interest broadly
examines how racial minorities experience and cope with various
culture-specific stressors. One area of particular interest is the
role and function of cultural identity in the lives of racial minorities,
especially for Asian Americans. My research seeks to answer the
following three inter-related questions: 1) What are the structure,
measurement, and psychological benefits of the different cultural
identities (e.g., racial, ethnic, etc.) for Asian Americans? 2)
When and how is cultural identity protective against culture-specific
stressors such as racism? 3) What type of experiences and situations
are most relevant to the different cultural identity developments? |
