Name:Bethany Blair
Email: blblair@uncg.edu
Previous Education: Messiah College, Grantham, PA
BA in Family Studies
Entry Year: 2006
Expected Graduation: 2011
Program of Study:MS/PhD
Area of Concentration:Adolescent Development
Research Interests: Adolescent peer relationships, adolescent girls’ relationships, girls’ understanding and use of competition, anger/aggression, parental influence
Previous Experience:
- Foster Care Case Manager, Harrisburg/York, PA
- Prevention Specialist (substance abuse and violence prevention programs, Aurora/West Chicago, IL
- Teacher’s Assistant in a high school, Naperville, IL
Advisor: Dr . Anne Fletcher
Career Plans:Academic Professor
Name Tracey H. Bridges
Email: tlbridg2@uncg.edu
Previous Education : UNCG, BS in HDFS
Entry Year : 2006
Expected Graduation : 2009
Program of Study: MS
Research Interests: Adolescent and early adulthood development with an emphasis on the impact of technology on issues such as parenting practices/ styles, parent-child communication as well as friendship development and maintenance.
Advisor : Dr. Anne Fletcher
Career Plans: Academic Professor/Researcher
Name: Shuntay Z. McCoy
Program of Study: PhD
Email: szmccoy@uncg.edu
Previous Education: Master of Social Work degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison 2003; Bachelor of Social Work at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 2001
Entry Year: Fall 2006
Expected Graduation: Spring 2011
Area of Concentration: Adolescent development and family studies
Research Interests: My two primary research interest are exploring how public schools influence adolescent development and examining the structure of African American families
Curriculum Vita: Click here to view CV
Advisors: Dr. Andrea Hunter and Dr. Andy Supple
Career Plans: To pursue a tenure track faculty position.
Name: Irina Mokrova
Program of Study: MS/PhD
Email: ilmokrov@uncg.edu
Previous Education : B.A. in Psychology from Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
Entry Year : 2006
Expected Graduation : 2011
Area of Concentration: Child development
Research Interests: Development of motivational domain in children and its relations with development of emotional and cognitive domains; family’s influences and cross-cultural differences
Advisor : Marion O’Brien, PhD.
Career Plans: Teaching at the university level school.
Other Relevant Links : I hold a research assistantship through and am a member of an enthusiastic, supportive and diverse research group at Family Research Center, http://www.uncg.edu/frc
Name: Jackie A. Nelson
Email: janelso3@uncg.edu
Previous Education: MS in Human Development & Family Studies from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC; BA in Psychology from Elon University, Elon, NC
Entry Year: 2006
Expected Graduation: 2011
Program of Study: PhD
Area of Concentration: Child Development
Research Interests: Children’s emotional development, mothers’ and fathers’ emotion socialization practices, family relationship quality and gender differences in family interaction
Advisor: Dr. Marion O’Brien
Other Relevant Links: http://www.uncg.edu/frc/ and http://www.star4kids.org
Name:Amy Thomason
Program of Study:PhD
Email: acthoma2@uncg.edu
Previous Education: University of Oklahoma – B.S Early Childhood Education; University of Oklahoma – M.Ed. Early Childhood Education
Entry Year: 2006
Expected Graduation: 2010
Area of Concentration:Early Childhood Education
Research Interests: My research interests focus on early childhood classroom quality; early childhood teacher preparation and professional development
Advisor: Dr. Karen LaParo
Career Plans:Academic professor / Research / Policy
Name: Chantelle Wolpert
Email: c_wolper@uncg.edu
Previous Education:
- SUNY at Stony Brook, BS, 1986 Health Sciences
- Montefiore Medical Center/ Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Certificate, 1987 Surgical PA residency
- Bernard Baruch College/ Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, MBA, 1991 Health Care Administration
- Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, Certificate, 1993 Genetic Counseling
Entry Year: 2006
Expected graduation: 2009-2010
Program of Study: Ph.D.
Area of Concentration: Family Studies
Research Interests:
Families’ interpretation of genetic information: 1) What aspects of family interpretation of genetic information and/or a genetic diagnosis and how that may ultimately affect their views of themselves, their child and other family members? 2) What is it about learning there is a genetic disorder in a family that might lead to changes in the family? 3) What are the dynamics within families that might be impacting families with regards to a genetic diagnosis?
Advisor: Dr. Marion O’Brien
Career Plans: Academic Researcher
Other Relevant Links: UNCG Family Research Center http://www.uncg.edu/frc/