New Peabody graduate Emily Lineberger to aid Nicaraguan orphans
Peabody graduate heads to Africa to work with AIDS orphans
Shan Foster to graduate; leaves behind more than shattered records
Vera Chatman: community and public health
Joseph Cunningham: special education, school programs, sociology, and ethnography
Paul Dokecki: ethics in research and organizations, spirituality and community psychology
James Fraser: urban neighborhoods
Craig Anne Heflinger: mental health services research on children, adolescents, and families
Maury Nation: community and school counseling, clinical-community psychology, bullying, and neighborhood influences on mental health
J.R. Newbrough, professor emeritus: history of community psychology, sense of community
Douglas Perkins: community participation, empowerment and development, environmental criminology, and urban policy
Susan Saegert, Human and Organizational Development: urban communities, housing, social and environmental psychology
Sharon Shields, Human and Organizational Development: community service, multicultural education
Paul Speer: community organizing, substance abuse prevention, and empowerment
Secondary Faculty Appointments
Len Bickman, Center for Evaluation and Program Improvement, Psychology and Human Development: evaluation research
Carolyn Hughes, Special Education: transition from school to adult life for high poverty youth, self-determination and self-directed learning for at-risk youth and youth with disabilities, and models of support
Ken Wallston, Professor of Psychology in Nursing: health psychology, behavioral medicine, adaptation to chronic illness, and emotional expression and health
Affiliated Faculty
Kathy Anderson, Economics: labor and economic development
Bruce Barry, Owen Graduate School of Management: workplace power and conflict, interpersonal behavior, management of social issues, business ethics, workplace rights, and social impact of technology
Tony Brown, Sociology: demography, quantitative methods
Monica Casper, Director of Women's and Gender Studies, Sociology, Women's Studies: women's health, feminist studies of science, technology, and medicine, gender, bodies, and sexuality, environmental health and justice, public health aspects of security and war, reproductive technologies, and bioethics
Daniel Cornfield, Sociology: labor movements, immigrant communities
James Foster, Economics: international economic development
Gina Frieden, Human and Organizational Development: adult development, life transitions and counselor training
Brian Griffith, Human and Organizational Development: human development counseling, character development
Stephen Heyneman, Leadership, Policy and Organizations: community economic development, social capital, and education
Richard Lloyd, Sociology: urban sociology, sociology of culture, social change, new media technology, and social theory
Beth Shinn, New York University, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, Department of Applied Psychology: social settings, social policy
Melissa Snarr, Graduate Department of Religion: intersection of religion, social change and social/political ethics
Lynn Walker, Pediatrics, Psychology and Human Development: children's coping with pain and disability
Douglas Perkins, Associate Professor of Human and Organizational Development, was selected to lead a taskforce to end chronic homelessness in Nashville. Read about his important work in the community.