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Susan Appleton
 Lemma Barkeloo and Phoebe Couzins Professor of Law

Susan Appleton, a nationally known expert on family law, has been a member of the Council of the American Law Institute since 1994. She has served as an adviser for the ALI's Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution and as a consultant to the New Jersey Bioethics Commission, assisting that agency ...

Expertise: conflict of laws, family law, criminal law, reproductive control

Direct contact: (314) 935-6449
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appleton@wulaw.wustl.edu

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Brian Carpenter
 Associate Professor of Psychology in Arts & Sciences

Carpenter's research focuses on the clinical psychology of aging, with an emphasis on family relationships in late life. Recent work explores the ways family members work together to make decisions regarding older adults. Other studies have examined whether adult children really know what their older ...

Expertise: Alzheimer's disease, attachment bonds, clinical psychology of aging, death and dying, dementia, depression, doctor-patient communication, …

Direct contact: (314) 935-8212
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bcarpenter@wustl.edu

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Karen L. Coburn
 Senior consultant in residence

Karen Levin Coburn is one of the country's leading experts on the college experience. She is co-author of the acclaimed book, Letting Go: A Parent's Guide to Understanding the College Years, which, in its fourth printing, has sold more than 330,000 copies. Coburn is often quoted in the national and ...

Expertise: college experience, freshman transition, letting go, students

Direct contact: (314) 935-5040
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coburn@wustl.edu

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F. Brett Drake
 Associate Professor of Social Work

Brett Drake's scholarship focuses on issues in child welfare including initial assessment, reporting, prevention, and child protective interventions. He is particularly interested in studying early intervention in cases of child maltreatment and understanding linkages between environmental factors, ...

Expertise: at-risk children, child abuse and neglect, child protective services, child welfare, early intervention in maltreatment, environmental factors on abuse and neglect, substance abuse

Media assistance: (314) 935-5251 / jessica_martin@wustl.edu

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Clifton Emery
 Assistant Professor

Clif Emery's is available to speak about domestic violence and its effects on children, quantitative methods and social theory. Among his current projects are secondary data analysis of the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods data and research on domestic violence in South Korea. ...

Expertise: Effects of domestic violence on children, deviance, trauma, causes of domestic violence

Direct contact: 314-935-7954
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cemery@wustl.edu

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Melissa Jonson-Reid
 Associate Professor of Social Work


Expertise: domestic violence, family violence, child abuse and neglect, public school system, child welfare system outcomes, social work evaluation and practice

Direct contact: (314) 935-4953
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jonsonrd@wustl.edu

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Yunju Nam
 Assistant Professor of Social Work

Yunju Nam is available to comment on social and economic equality, poverty, welfare policy, domestic violence, child welfare, and asset-building policy for the poor. She is particularly interested in the effect of welfare reform on poor children and women.

Expertise: welfare, welfare police, domestic violence, child welfare, asset-building policy

Direct contact: 314-935-4954
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ynam@wustl.edu

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Linda Nicholson
 Director, Women and Gender Studies Program


Expertise: feminism, gender studies, relationships, women, men, social identity

Direct contact: (314) 935-7479
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lnichols@wustl.edu

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Ramesh Raghavan
 Assistant professor of Social Work

Ramesh Raghavan's clinical, policy and administrative expertise in public health and psychiatry fuel his research interests in mental health services and policies for children in the child welfare system. Prior to joining the faculty at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work and the School of ...

Expertise: public health, mental health services, children in the child welfare system, health policy, Medicaid

Direct contact: 314-935-4469
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raghavan@wustl.edu

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Laura Rosenbury
 Associate Professor of Law

Rosenbury focuses her research and teaching on family law and anti-discrimination law. She has practiced in the areas of criminal, antitrust, securities, and consumer law. Rosenbury serves on the board of Children's Healthcare Is a Legal Duty (CHILD, Inc.), a national nonprofit organization that seeks ...

Expertise: anti-discrimination law, family law,

Direct contact: (314) 935-5935
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larosenb@wulaw.wustl.edu

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Paul Shattuck
 Assistant Professor of Social Work

Paul Shattuck's research and teaching focuses on autism, social policy, research methods, human behavior and the social environment, health and society, and disability studies. He has published a number of articles on the diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorders. The Journal of Autism and ...

Expertise: autism, social policy, research methods, human behavior and the social environment, health and society, disability studies

Direct contact: (314) 935-7570
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pshattuck@wustl.edu

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Michael Sherraden
 Benjamin E. Youngdahl Professor of Social Development


Expertise: IDAs, asset-building, community and family development, productive aging, social and economic development, welfare reform

Direct contact: (314) 935-6691
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sherrad@wustl.edu

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Nancy Vosler
 Associate Professor of Social Work

Nancy Vosler combines interests in family theory and direct practice with families--including family therapy--with a focus on social welfare and family policies. She is particularly interested in issues like parental employment and unemployment, family supports and resources, and poverty and working-poor ...

Expertise: family policy, family therapy, social welfare, spirituality, support services, working poor

Direct contact: (314) 935-6658

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Luis Zayas
 Shanti K. Khinduka Distinguished Professor of Social Work

Luis Zayas' primary interests are in clinical practice with adolescents and families and in training clinical practitioners. His clinical experience spans 25 years of working with children, adolescents, adults, and families in community mental health, psychiatric clinics, pediatric rehabilitation, ...

Expertise: adolescent mental health, maternal mental health in pregnancy, parent-child relations, cross-cultural factors in child-rearing behavior, family functioning, psychiatric diagnosis, alcohol use by Latinos

Direct contact: (314) 935-9448
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lzayas@WUSTL.EDU

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