Karl G. Hill

Education: PhD, Brandeis University, 1991

Research Interests: Prevention Research; Life-Span Development; Intergenerational Mechanisms; Gene-Environment Interplay; Substance Abuse; Crime and Delinquency; Research Methods

I am the former director of the Prevention Science Program and Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Colorado Boulder. Although retired, I am still consulting in the larger community in the role of Research Professor. 

My work over the last forty years has focused on understanding two questions: What are optimal family, peer, school and community environments that encourage healthy youth and adult development? And How do we work with communities to make this happen? Prior to CU Boulder, I worked for 23 years at the University of Washington as a professor and prevention scientist where he sought to understand the development and consequences of prosocial outcomes as well as antisocial behaviors such as drug use and dependence, crime, and gang membership, and the mechanisms of continuity and discontinuity in these behaviors across generations. In addition, my work has focused on developing and testing interventions to shape these outcomes, and on working with communities to improve youth development and to break intergenerational cycles of problem behavior.

Although I am no longer accepting graduate students as their graduate chair, I am more than happy to join as a committee member or in some other mentored relationship.