HDFS faculty are interested in the factors that affect the formation, maintenance and deterioration of personal and family relationships throughout life, including friendships, family relationships, romantic liaisons and marriages.
Karen Fingerman
- Professor
- Research Director, Center on Aging and Population Sciences
- Director, Texas Aging and Longevity Consortium
- Sonia Wolf Wilson Regents Administrative Professorship, Holder
- Human Development & Family Sciences
- Human Ecology
I am currently accepting graduate students for fall 2025. But I am no longer studying intergenerational relationships.
My research currently looks at daily experiences in late life. We are beginning to research caregivers for Lewy Body Dementia.
Marci Gleason
- Associate Professor
- Associate Chair
- Human Development & Family Sciences
- Human Ecology
Sae Hwang Han
- Associate Professor
- Human Development & Family Sciences
Deborah Jacobvitz
- Professor
- Phyllis L. Richards Endowed Professor in Child Development
- Human Development & Family Sciences
- Human Ecology
Lisa Neff
- Professor
- Human Development & Family Sciences
- Human Ecology
Hannah Williamson
- Associate Professor
- Human Development & Family Sciences
- Human Ecology
Accepting applications for Ph.D. students for the 2025/2026 academic year.