HDFS faculty seek to understand how parent-child relationships develop in the early years of life, change over subsequent years and persist into adulthood, and how being a parent affects adults’ functioning and relationships with their partners and co-parents.
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.
Elizabeth Gershoff
- Professor
- Human Development & Family Sciences
- Human Ecology
Amy Johnson McLaughlin Centennial Professorship in Home Economics
I am not currently accepting graduate students.
Marci Gleason
- Associate Professor
- Associate Chair
- Human Development & Family Sciences
- Human Ecology
Deborah Jacobvitz
- Professor
- Phyllis L. Richards Endowed Professor in Child Development
- Human Development & Family Sciences
- Human Ecology
Su Yeong Kim
- Professor
- Human Development & Family Sciences
Dr. Kim is accepting new Ph.D. students for Fall 2028. Application deadline is December 1, 2027.
Jeffrey Lockman
- Professor
- Human Development & Family Sciences
- Human Ecology
Elma Lorenzo-Blanco
- Associate Professor
- Human Development & Family Sciences
- Human Ecology
Seeking student research assistants for course credit or on a volunteer basis. See profile for more details.
Nicole Perry
- Assistant Professor
- Human Development & Family Sciences
- Human Ecology
I am not recruiting graduate students at this time.
Gabriela Livas
- Professor
- Department Chair
- Human Development & Family Sciences
- Human Ecology
Fatima Varner
- Associate Professor
- Human Development & Family Sciences
- Human Ecology