Andrei Rogers, Director
Department of Geography
Ph.D., 1964, University of North Carolina
Spatial demography; urbanization; migration; population aging.
Courses taught:
1999
Geography 4023, Introduction to Quantitative Methods in Geography; Geography 4732/5732, Population Geography
Recent publications:
Rogers, A. & Raymer, J. (1999). The regional demographics of the elderly foreign-born and native-born populations in the United States since 1950. Research on Aging, 21(1), 3-35.
Rogers, A. (1995). Multiregional demography: Principles, methods, and extensions. London: John Wiley.
Co-Editor, Mathematical Population Studies
Charles M. Becker
Economics Institute
Ph.D., 1981, Princeton University
Estimating determinants of demographic change in the former U.S.S.R. Models and estimates of interregional migration and urbanization in transitional and developing economies.
Recent publications:
Becker, C.M. & Morrison, A. (1999). Urbanization in transforming economies. In P. Cheshire & E. Mills (Eds.), Handbook of regional and urban economics (Vol. 3, pp. 1675-1789) (Handbooks in Economics 7). Amsterdam: Elsevier North-Holland.
Becker, C.M. & Bloom, D. (Eds.). (1998). The demographic crisis in the former Soviet Union. World Development, 26(11) (Special Issue).
Panel on Urban Population Dynamics, Committee on Population, National Research Council, 1999-.
President, Economics Institute, 1990-96.
James O. Huff
Department of Geography
Ph.D., 1973, Northwestern University
Population geography; residential mobility; modeling decision-making; structural changes in economic and social systems.
Courses taught:
1998
Geography 3930, Undergraduate Majors (Internship) Geography 5642,
Seminar-Urban Geography
1999
Geography 3930, Undergraduate Internship; Geography 6180, Spatial
Analysis
Recent publications:
Huff, J.O. & Huff, A.S. (in press). A cognitively anchored theory of strategic change. London: Oxford University Press.
Huff, J.O. & Huff, A.S. (1997). Recent developments in the modeling of strategy reformulation. In M. Fischer & A. Getis (Eds.), Recent developments in spatial analysis (pp. 253-71). Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
Robert F. McNown
Department of Economics
Ph.D., 1971, University of California at San Diego
Application of modern time series methods to analyze and forecast demographic processes. Currently investigating dynamic linkages between fertility and female labor market activity.
Courses taught:
1998
Economics 4309, Honors Seminar 1; Economics 6828, Applied Time
Series
1999
Economics 3403, International Economics and Policy; Economics
8828, Seminar in Econometrics
Recent publications:
McNown, R.F., Barnhart, S., & Wallace, M. (1999). Noninformative tests of exchange market efficiency. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 34(2).
McNown, R.F. & Wallace, M. (1997). Autoregressive transformations in cointegrated regressions. Review of Economics and Statistics, 79(3), 503-507.
Jane Menken
Department of Sociology
Ph.D., 1975, Princeton University
Developing countries, especially in south Asia, and, in recent years, demographic change (especially as it relates to family networks as determinants of health and education), reproductive health, child mortality, and long-term effects of socioeconomic conditions early in life on survival of women.
Courses taught:
1998
Sociology 5031, Research Methods; Sociology 3012, Women, Development,
and Fertility
1999
Sociology 1012, Population Issues; Sociology 5031, Research Design
2000
Sociology 3012, Women, Development, and Fertility
Recent publications:
Rahman, M.O. & Menken, J. (in press). Reproductive health in the developing world. In Robert Black and Michael Merson (Eds.), International health. Gaithersburg, MD: Aspen Publishers, Inc.
Muhuri, P. & Menken, J. (1997). Adverse effects of next birth, gender, and family composition on child survival in rural Bangladesh. Population Studies, 51, 279-294.
Member, National Academy of Sciences, 1989- .
Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1990- .
Member, Institute of Medicine, 1995- .
Fred C. Pampel
Department of Sociology
Ph.D., 1977, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Population aging, age-based public policies, cohort size and fertility, suicide and homicide mortality, European population and policies.
Courses taught:
1998 Sociology 5061, Advanced Data Analysis
1999 Sociology 5021, Data Analysis
Recent publications:
Pampel, F. C. (1998). National context, social change, and sex differences in suicide rates. American Sociological Review, 63, 744-758.
Pampel, F. C. (1998). Aging, social inequality, and social policy. Thousands Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press.
Editorial Board, American Sociological Review, 1998-2000.
Richard G. Rogers
Department of Sociology
Ph.D., 1985, University of Texas
Mortality and morbidity; social inequality; gerontological demography; medical sociology.
Courses taught:
1998 Sociology 4301, Survey Research Methods
1999 Sociology 5012, Population Issues, Problems, and Policies
Recent publications:
Rogers, R.G., Hummer, R.A., & Nam, C.B. (1999). Living and dying in the U.S.A.: Behavioral, health, and social differentials of adult mortality. New York: Academic Press.
Hummer, R.A., Rogers, R.G., & Nam, C.B. (1999). Religious participation and U.S. adult mortality. Demography, 36(2), 273-285.
President, Southern Demographic Association, 1997-98.
Vice President, Society for the Study of Social Biology, 1997-98.
Rachel M. Silvey
Department of Geography
Ph.D., 1997, University of Washington
Gender, migration, and development in Indonesia along with Asian immigration, gender, and labor market discrimination in the U.S.; critical development geography and international gender and labor issues.
Courses taught:
1998
Geography 3672, Gender and the Global Economy
1999
Geography 3672, Gender and the Global Economy; Geography 1992,
Introduction to Human Geography
Recent publications:
Silvey, R.M. & Lawson, V. (1999). Placing the migrant. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 89(1), 121-132.
Silvey, R.M. (in press). Migration under crisis; household safety nets in Indonesia's economic collapse. GeoForum. (Special issue on the Asian crisis).
Fulbright-Hays dissertation fellow, 1994-95.
Charles F. Keyes doctoral award for achievement in Southeast
Asian Studies, Pacific Northwest Consortium for Southeast Asian
Studies, 1998.
Edward S. Greenberg, Director
Department of Political Science
Ph.D., 1969, University of Wisconsin
Impacts of job and work settings on individual attitudes and behaviors; globalization, with special attention to how the rapid transformation in the international economy is affecting the workplace, local communities, government policy, and the prospects for democracy.
Recent publications:
Greenberg, E.S. (2000). Surviving layoffs: The effects on job performance and organizational commitment. Work and Occupations, 27(2).
Greenberg, E.S. (1999). Work stress and self-reported alcohol use. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 4(1), 29-36.
Jeffery Pressman Award, Policy Studies Association, Best Annual Article in the Policy Studies Review, 1993.
James E. Bell
Ph.D., 1997, University of Washington
The geography of political and economic transformations in post-socialist societies.
Recent publications:
Bell, J.E. (1999). Redefining national identity in Uzbekistan: Symbolic tensions in Tashkent's official public landscape. Ecumene, 6(2), 183-213.
O'Loughlin, J. & Bell, J.E. (1999). The political geography of civic engagement in Ukraine, 1994-1998. Post-Soviet Geography and Economics, 40(4), 233-265.
Debra Javeline
Ph.D., 1997, Harvard University
Political protest and public opinion, with a geographic emphasis on the former Soviet Union; comparison of public and elite attitudes in Kazakhstan; survey research in the Former Soviet Union; Russian regional elites (governors and parliament speakers) and partisanship influences on leadership behavior.
Recent publications:
Javeline, D. (1999). Response effects in polite cultures: A test of acquiescence in Kazakhstan. Public Opinion Quarterly, 63(Spring), 1-28.
Javeline, D. (1998). Suffering without protest in Kazakhstan. Central Asia Monitor, 3.
Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Davis Center for Russian Studies,
Harvard University, 1999.
Certificate of Distinction in Teaching for "Constitutional
Democracy in America," Harvard, 1996-97.
Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowship, 1995-96.
American Council of Teachers of Russian, Research Scholar, Tajikistan,
1995.
Keith E. Maskus
Department of Economics
Ph.D., 1981, University of Michigan
The role of international trade and investment policies on technology transfer and innovation; intellectual property rights and economic development; trade policy analysis; empirical models of comparative advantage and trade.
Courses taught:
1998
Economics 3403, International Economics and Policy; Economics
8209, Research Methods in Economics
1999
Economics 8433, Empirical Methods in International Trade
Recent publications:
Maskus, K.E. & McDaniel, C. (1999). Impacts of the Japanese patent system on productivity growth. Japan and the World Economy, 11, 557-574.
Maskus, K.E. & Webster, A. (1998). Estimating the HOV model with technology differences using disaggregated labor skills for the United States and the United Kingdom. Review of International Economics, 7, 8-19.
Associate Editor, Review of International Economics,
1997-.
Editor, The World Economy: Americas Edition, 1998-.
Consultant, World Bank, 1995-.
Consultant, World Intellectual Property Organization, 1999-.
Consultant, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development,
1996-.
Thomas F. Mayer
Department of Sociology
Ph.D., 1966, Stanford University
Political economy; social change; class dynamics using concepts of Analytical Marxism and dynamical systems theory.
Courses taught:
1998
Sociology 4061, Social Statistics,
Sociology 5001, Classical Sociological Theory
Recent publications:
Mayer, T.F. (1998). Analytical Marxism. In J.B. Davis, et al., The handbook of economic methodology (pp. 12-17). Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar.
Mayer, T.F. (1998). Class dynamics: A non-technical progress report [translated into Italian]. Studi Perugini, 5, 121-141.
John V. O'Loughlin
Department of Geography
Ph.D., 1973, Pennsylvania State University
Political geography, including political transitions in the Former Soviet Union, diffusion of democracy, nationalist-territorial conflicts, and electoral geography; social geography including immigration and xenophobia in Western Europe, and the well-being of immigrants in U.S. cities.
Courses taught:
1999
Geography 5332, Globalization and Democracy Seminar II;
Geography 5712, Political Geography;
Geography 4892, Geography of Western Europe
Recent publications:
O'Loughlin, J.V.,Ward, M.D., Lofdahl, C.L., Cohen, J.S., Brown, D.S., Reilly, D., Gleditsch, K.S., & Shin, M. (1998). The diffusion of democracy, 1946-1994. Annals, Association of American Geographers, 88, 545-574.
O'Loughlin, J.V., Kolossov, V., & Vendina, O. (1997). The electoral geographies of a polarizing city: Moscow, 1993-1996. Post-Soviet Geography and Economics, 38, 567-601.
Editor, Political Geography, 1981-.
Faculty fellowship, University of Colorado. 1996-97.
James R. Scarritt
Department of Political Science
Ph.D., 1963, Northwestern University
Sociopolitical change and development in African polities formerly under British rule, in southern Africa, in the contemporary world, especially in the commonwealth, focusing on the politics of ethnicity and class, democratization, and human rights protection.
Courses taught:
1999
Political Science 3082, Political Systems of Sub-Saharan Africa
Political Science 4012, Global Development
Recent publications:
Scarritt, J.R. & Mozaffar, S. (1999). The specification of ethnic cleavages and ethnopolitical groups for the analysis of democratic competition in contemporary Africa. Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, 5(1), 82-117.
Sommer, H. & Scarritt, J.R. (1999). The utility of Reuters for events analysis in area studies: The case of Zambia-Zimbabwe interactions, 1982-1993. International Interactions, 25(1), 29-59.
President, International Studies Association-West, 1995-96.
Chair, International Studies Association, Ethnicity, Nationalism
and Migration Section, 1997-98.
Lynn A. Staeheli
Department of Geography
Ph.D., 1989, University of Washington
Effects of economic restructuring on political activity; connections between the nature of work and political activism; women's activism; inequality; citizenship.
Courses taught:
1998
Geography 1992, Human Geographies
1999
Geography 5161, Research Design in Human Geography
Recent publications:
Staeheli, L.A. & Nagel, C.R. (1998). Farm laborers and the 'new urban politics': Bridging the urban-rural divide. Urban Geography, 18(8), 667-683.
Staeheli, L.A., Kodras, J., & Flint, C. (Eds.). (1997). State devolution in America: Implications for a diverse society. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Editor, Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist
Geography, 1997-.
Chair, Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Committee, Association
of American Geographers, 1994-.
Steering Committee, Geographers' Network on Politics in America,
Association of American Geographers, 1995-.
Walter J. Stone
Department of Political Science
Ph.D., 1976, University of Michigan
American political parties, electoral change, and political representation.
Recent publications:
Pastor, G.S., Stone, W.J., & Rapoport, R.B. (1999). Candidate-centered sources of party change: The case of Pat Robertson, 1988. Journal of Politics, 61(2), 423-444.
McCann, J.A., Rapoport, R.B., & Stone, W.J. (1999). Heeding the call: An assessment of mobilization into Ross Perot's 1992 Presidential campaign. American Journal of Political Science, 43(1), 1-28.
Visiting Scholar, Hoover Institution, Stanford University,
1998.
Visiting Professor of Political Science, Stanford University,
1999-2000.
J. Terrence McCabe, Acting Director
Department of Anthropology
Ph.D., 1985, State University of New York at Binghamton
Ecological anthropology, social organization, pastoral nomadism, economic development, arid land ecosystems, conservation, Sub-Saharan Africa, East Africa, and the American West.
Recent publications:
McCabe, J.T., Dyson-Hudson, R., & Wienpahl, J. (1999). Nomadic movement and livestock care. In M.A. Little & P.W. Leslie (Eds.), Turkana herders of the dry savanna: Ecology and biobehavioral response of nomads to an uncertain environment. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
McCabe, J.T., Mollel, N., & Tumainai, A. (1997). Food security and the role of cultivation. In M. Thompson (Ed.), Multiple land-use: The experience of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania. Gland, Switzerland: IUCN.
Fellow, Society for Applied Anthropology, 1995.
Dean's Committee Social Science Writing Award, University of Colorado,
1993.
Associate Editor, Human Ecology: An Interdisciplinary Journal,
1994-.
Editorial Board, Nomadic Peoples, 1995-.
Charles W. Howe
Department of Economics
Ph.D., 1959, Stanford University
Comparative environmental policies around the world, especially in the European Community and the United States; water transfer efficiency and institutions, U.S. and Third World; sustainability of economic activity and environmental resources.
Courses taught:
1999
Economics 3535, Natural Resource Economics;
Economics 6565, Resources and Environment
Recent publications:
Howe, C.W. (1997). Dimensions of sustainability: Geographical, temporal, institutional and psychological. Land Economics, 73(4), 597-607.
Howe, C.W. (1998). Forms and functions of water pricing. In D. Baumann, J. Boland, & M. Hanemann (Eds.), Urban water demand management and planning (pp. 181-191). New York: McGraw-Hill.
President, Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 1989-92.
American Water Resources Association Icko Iben Award for Contributions to Interdisciplinary Research, 1994.
James R. McGoodwin
Department of Anthropology
Ph.D., 1973, University of Texas at Austin
Maritime anthropology; fisheries policy; environmental policy; natural hazards; social and economic development; energy policy; Mexico, Canada, and Western Europe.
Courses taught:
1998
Anthropology 7000, Seminar in Anthropology and the Environment;
Anthropology 1130, Amazonian Tribal Peoples
1999
Anthropology 3110, Ethnography of Mexico and Central America;
Anthropology 4570/5570, Maritime People
Recent publications:
McGoodwin, J.R. & Dyer, C.L. (1999). Tell them we're hurting: The culture of response, Hurricane Andrew, and the fisher people of South Florida and Louisiana. In A.R. Oliver-Smith & S.M. Hoffman (Eds.) The angry earth. New York: Routledge.
McGoodwin, J.R. (1997). The importance of maintaining diverse economic alternatives in communities of small-scale fishers. (Technical Report TC/M97/CBW/1) International Whaling Commission.
Visiting Research Fellow, Institute of Social and Economic Research, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada, 1996-97.
Boulder Faculty Assembly Excellence in Service Award, 1999.
Dean's Writing Award in the Social Sciences, 1992.
Burlington Northern Foundation Faculty Achievement Award, 1991.
Dennis S. Mileti
Department of Sociology
Ph.D., 1974, University of Colorado at Boulder
Models of human-environment relationships; risk communication and warnings; policies and practices to make society more resilient to natural hazards.
Courses taught:
1999
Sociology 1001, Analyzing Society
Recent publications:
Mileti, D.S. (1999). Disasters by design: A reassessment of natural hazards in the United States. Washington, DC: Joseph Henry Press.
Mileti, D.S. & Darlington, J.R. (1997). The role of searching behavior in shaping reactions to earthquake risk information. Social Problems, 44 (1), 89-103.
Member, Panel on Human Dimensions of Seasonal to Interannual Climate Variability, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences, 1997-99.
Member, Expert Working Group on National and Local Capacities for Early Warning Systems, International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, 1997-99.
David N. Pellow
Departments of Sociology and Ethnic Studies
Ph.D., 1998, Northwestern University
Social movements, environmental justice, technological hazards.
Courses taught:
1999
Ethnic Studies 3100, Environmental Racism
2000
Sociology 3091, Environment and Society;
Sociology 5061, Race and Ethnicity;
Ethnic Studies 3675, Social Movement, Struggles in Communities
of Color
Recent publications:
Pellow, D.N. (1999) Negotiations and confrontations: Environmental policy-making through consensus. Society and Natural Resources, 12, 189-203.
Weinberg, A., Pellow, D.N., & Schnaiberg, A. (2000) Searching for sustainable community development: Lessons from urban recycling. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
President's Council on Sustainable Development, 1997-99.
James L. Wescoat, Jr.
Department of Geography
Ph.D., 1983, University of Chicago
Water resources and landscape research (U.S. and South Asia).
Courses taught:
1998
Geography 2002, World Geographic Problems: Water (freshman MAPS
course); Geography 4430, Conservation Trends: Urban Water (critical
thinking course)
1999
Geography 6501, Comparative Environmental Problems;
Geography 4501, Western Water Resources
Recent publications:
Wescoat, Jr., J.L. (Committee Chair) (1999). Downstream: Adaptive management of Glen Canyon Dam and the Colorado River ecosystem. National Research Council, Water Science and Technology Board. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.
Wescoat, Jr., J.L. (1999). A geographical perspective on sustainable landscape design in arid environments. In Sustainable landscape design in arid climates (pp. 11-24). Geneva: Aga Khan Trust for Culture.
Chair, National Research Council Committee to Review the Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center, 1998-2001.
American Academy in Rome, Rome Prize in Landscape Architecture to study "Water in Urban Design," 1996-97.
Gilbert F. White
Department of Geography, Emeritus
Ph.D., 1942, University of Chicago
Flood plain decision making; water and environmental management.
Recent publications:
White, G.F. (1998). Reflections on the 50-year international search for integrated water management. Water Policy, 1(1), 21-27.
White, G.F. (with the Committee). (1999). Water for the Future: The West Bank and Gaza Strip, Israel, and Jordan. Washington, DC: National Research Council.
National Academy of Sciences, 1973-.
Member, American Philosophical Society.
Member, Russian Academy of Sciences, 1980-.
National Geographic Society, Hubbard Medal, 1994.
Volvo Environment Prize, 1995.
National Academy of Sciences Public Welfare Medal, 2000.
Delbert S. Elliott, Director
Department of Sociology
Ph.D., 1961, University of Washington
The epidemiology and etiology of youth violence, crime, and substance use/abuse; crime prevention and intervention strategies; longitudinal survey research methodology.
Courses taught:
1998
Sociology 4004, Topics in Criminology
Recent publications:
Elliott, D.S., Hamburg, B., & Williams, K. (Eds.). (1998). Violence in American schools. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Elliott, D.S., Wilson, W.J., Huizinga, D., Sampson, R. J., Elliott, A.C., & Rankin, B. (1996). The effects of neighborhood disadvantage on adolescent development. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 33, 389-426.
President, American Society of Criminology, 1992-1993.
Edwin L. Sutherland Award, American Society of Criminology, 1995.
Outstanding Achievement Award, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, U.S. Department of Justice, 1998.
Joanne Belknap
Department of Sociology and Women's Studies
Ph.D., 1986, Michigan State University
Intimate partner violence/domestic violence, sexual victimization, and adult and delinquent female offenders.
Courses taught:
1998
Women's Studies 3710, Violence against Women and Girls
1999
Sociology 4004/5004, Topics in Criminology: Female Offenders;
Sociology 3046, Topics in Sex and Gender: Hate Crimes
2000
Sociology 3044, Women and Crime;
Women's Studies 2000, Introduction to Feminist Studies
Recent publications:
Jones, D.A., & Belknap, J. (1999). Police responses to battering in a pro-arrest jurisdiction. Justice Quarterly, 16(2), 249-273.
Belknap, J., Holsinger, K., & Dunn, M. (1997). Understanding incarcerated girls: The results of a focus group study. Prison Journal, 77(4), 381-404.
Elaine A. Blechman
Department of Psychology
Ph.D., 1971, University of California at Los Angeles
Testing the coping-competence model to explain development of vulnerability and resilience to various bad life outcomes, and development and evaluation of theory-driven prevention and intervention strategies for high-risk youth via prosocial coping.
Courses taught:
1999
Psychology 5423, Research Problems in Clinical Psychology
Recent publications:
Blechman, E.A., Lowell, L., & Garrett, J. (1999). Prosocial coping and substance use during pregnancy. Addictive Behaviors, 24, 99-109.
Blechman, E.A. & Brownell, K. (Eds.). (1998). Behavioral medicine for women: A comprehensive handbook. New York: Guilford.
Angela D. Bryan
Department of Psychology
Ph.D., 1997, Arizona State University
The development of interventions to increase safer sexual behavior among at-risk populations, social implications of condom negotiation, homophobia, and the study of attraction, mate choice, and romantic partner preferences from an evolutionary perspective; quantitative and methodological issues encountered in prevention research.
Courses taught:
1999
Psychology 5606, Graduate Social Psychology Proseminar
2000
Psychology 3001, Honors Seminar in Research Methods
Recent publications:
Bryan A.D., Aiken, L.S., & West, S.G. (1999). The impact of males' proposing condom use on perceptions of an initial sexual encounter. Personalty and Social Psychology Bulletin, 25, 268-275.
Bryan A.D., Aiken, L.S., & West, S.G. (1997). Young women's condom use: The influence of responsibility for sexuality, control over the sexual encounter and perceived susceptibility to common STDs. Health Psychology, 60, 468-479.
Frances M. Costa
Ph.D., 1983, University of Colorado at Boulder
Life-span developmental social psychology; sexual behavior and contraceptive use; adolescent problem behavior and health-related behavior.
Recent publications:
Costa, F.M., Jessor, R., & Turbin, M.S. (1999). Transition into adolescent problem drinking: The role of psychosocial risk and protective factors. Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 60, 480-490.
Costa, F.M., Jessor, R., Fortenberry, J.D., & Donovan, J.E. (1996). Psychosocial conventionality, health orientation, and contraceptive use in adolescence. Journal of Adolescent Health, 18, 404-416.
Franklyn W. Dunford
Ph.D., 1973, Brigham Young University
Domestic violence, program evaluation, experimental research design.
Recent publications:
Dunford, F.W. (in press). The San Diego Navy experiment: An experimental assessment of interventions for men who assault their wives. Journal of Counseling and Clinical Psychology.
Dunford, F.W. (under revision). The effects of treatment using a cognitive behavioral intervention: Findings from the San Diego Navy experiment.
Jennifer K. Grotpeter
Ph.D., 1997, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Middle childhood and adolescent development; focusing on the characteristics (e.g., intimacy, aggression) of friendship and family relationships of aggressive and victimized youth; gender differences in the expression of aggression (relational vs. physical aggression).
Recent publications:
Grotpeter, J.K. & Crick, N.R. (1996). Relational aggression, overt aggression, and friendship. Child Development, 62, 2328-2338.
Crick, N.R. & Grotpeter, J.K. (1995). Relational aggression, gender, and social-psychological adjustment. Child Development, 66, 710-722.
David H. Huizinga
Ph.D., 1977, University of Colorado
Life course development in social contexts: prosocial and problem behavior, including personal, academic, and employment success, delinquency, crime, drug use, psychopathology, domestic violence, sexual behavior, and teen pregnancy; analytic procedures for the typological study of developmental sequences.
Recent publications:
Huizinga, D.H. & Jakob-Chien, C. (1998). The contemporaneous co-occurrence of serious and violent juvenile offending and other problem behaviors. In R. Loeber & D.P. Farrington (Eds.), Serious and violent juvenile offenders: Risk factors and successful interventions. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Huizinga, D.H. (1995). Developmental sequences in delinquency. In L.J. Crockett & A.C. Crowder (Eds.), Pathways through adolescence: Individual development in context. New York: Lawrence Earlbaum.
Elected Fellow, Western Society of Criminology, 1998.
Richard Jessor
Department of Psychology
Ph.D., 1951, Ohio State University
Personality theory; adolescent and young adult development; social psychology of deviance; socialization of problem behavior; logic and philosophy of psychology; psychosocial aspects of health promotion and disease prevention; health psychology; social psychology of poverty.
Courses taught:
1999
Psychology 4521, Critical Thinking-Adolescent Risk Behavior
Recent publications:
Jessor, R. (Ed.). (1998). New perspectives on adolescent risk behavior. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Jessor, R., Turbin, M.S., & Costa, F.M. (1998). Protective factors in adolescent health behavior. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 75, 788-800.
Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, CA, 1995-96.
David W. Kaplan, M.D., M.P.H.
Department of Pediatrics
Department of Preventive Medicine and Biometrics
Chief, Adolescent Medicine, Health Sciences Center
M.D., 1970, Case Western-Reserve University
M.P.H., 1976, Harvard University
Evaluation of adolescent health care access, utilization, and health status in different health care delivery systems. Study of the impact of new information system technologies on adolescent preventive health care delivery and health education.
Recent publications:
Kaplan, D.W., Becher, J., & Garcia, J.G. (1999). Reproductive health risk behavior survey of Colombian high school students. Journal of Adolescent Health, 24, 220-225.
Kaplan, D.W., Brindis, C., Naylor, K.E., Phibbs, S.L., Ahlstrand, K.R., & Melinkovich, P. (June 1998). Elementary school-based health center use. Pediatrics, 101(6), e12.
Chairman, Committee on Adolescence, American Academy of Pediatrics, 1999-2002.
Chairman of the Board, Advocates for Youth, Washington, DC, 1996-2000.
Scott W. Menard
Ph.D., 1981, University of Colorado at Boulder
Longitudinal research methods and analysis, logistic regression and other multivariate statistical techniques, with applications to the study of criminal victimization, illicit drug use, and other illegal behavior over the life course.
Recent publications:
Menard, S. (1997). A developmental test of Cloward's differential opportunity theory. In N. Passas & R. Agnew (Eds.), The future of anomie theory (pp. 142-186). Boston: Northeastern University Press.
Menard, S., Covey, H.C., & Franzese, R.J. (1997). Juvenile gangs (2nd ed.). Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas.
David J. Miklowitz
Department of Psychology
Ph.D., 1985, University of California at Los Angeles
The family environment as a risk factor in the course of major mental disorders (bipolar affective disorder and schizophrenia); designing and testing the efficacy of psychosocial interventions (family-based and individually based) with these populations.
Courses taught:
1998
Psychology 5433, Advanced Psychopathology; Psychology
4001, Senior Honors Seminar
1999
Psychology 4541/7703, Family Research and Therapy
Recent publications:
Miklowitz, D.J. & Goldstein, M.J. (1997). Bipolar disorder: A family-focused treatment approach. New York: Guilford Press.
Simoneau, T.L., Miklowitz, D.J., Richards, J.A., Saleem, R., & George, L. (in press). Bipolar disorder and family communication: The effects of a psychoeducational treatment program. Journal of Abnormal Psychology.
Faculty Research Award: Department of Psychology, 1998.
Outstanding Research Publication Award: American Association for Marital and Family Therapy, 1998.
Kevin R. Reitz
School of Law
J.D., 1982, University of Pennsylvania
Law and policy issues in criminal justice, with an emphasis on sentencing law and policy.
Courses taught:
1999
Law 6045, Criminal Procedure;
Law 8355, Seminar: Sentencing Law and Policy
2000
Law 5503, Criminal Law;
Law 8315, Seminar: Advanced Criminal Justice
Recent publications:
Reitz, K.R. (1997). Sentencing guideline systems and sentence appeals: A comparison of federal and state experiences. Northwestern University Law Review, 91, 1441-1506.
Reitz, K.R. (1993). Sentencing facts: Travesties of real-offense sentencing. Stanford Law Review, 45, 523-573.
American Bar Association, 1989-.
National Association of Sentencing Commissions, 1994- (one of the founders of this organization).
American Society of Criminology, 1998-.