Gabriela Livas Stein
Department Chair
Gabriela Livas Stein’s research attempts to identify individual, familial and cultural processes that promote positive development and mitigate risk for minoritized youth, focusing on immigrant and Latine populations. Her work, grounded in cultural models of child development, incorporates tenets of developmental psychopathology to understand trajectories of mental health and educational outcomes. Her work also uses community-engaged approaches to develop and test prevention and intervention programs that address the mental health and cultural needs of minoritized youth and their families.
Marci Gleason
Associate Chair for Undergraduate Education
Marci Gleason’s research interests center on the influence of major life transitions on adults’ mental, physical and relationship health. The focus of her research program is on the fundamental question of how close relationships, as social contexts, influence individuals’ ability to cope with both big and small stressors associated with major life transitions. To gain a deeper understanding of this question, she conducts intensive longitudinal studies of dyads and groups that allow her to explore adjustment and change at the individual, group and societal levels.
Su Yeong Kim
Associate Chair for Graduate Education
Su Yeong Kim studies the intersection of family and cultural contexts in understanding the development of children of immigrants in the United States, focusing on children of Chinese and Mexican origin. Dr. Kim examines how culturally relevant developmental processes (acculturation), cognitive processes (executive functioning) and physiological (cortisol, inflammation) and social stressors (discrimination) directly, indirectly or interactively influence parent-child relationships and adjustment transitions and outcomes (academic achievement, depressive symptoms) in minority adolescents and young adults.