- Dr. Natasha Cabrera won the award for Best Research Article Award from the National Council on Family Relations. 11/20/09
- Dr. Meredith Rowe joins the Human Development faculty as an assistant professor. 09/11/09
- Human Development professor Elisa Klein has been awarded an SRCD Executive Branch Policy Fellowship for the next academic year 07/24/09
- Human development Professors Fox and Bolger play leading roles in the University's new fMRI imaging center. 07/13/09
- EDHD Professor Melanie Killen wins an Honorable Mention for this year’s Otto Klineberg Intercultural and International Relations Prize. 06/18/09
- The 2009 Rachel Petty Dissertation Awards were given to Cassandra Coddington and Nicole Denmark 05/21/09
- More news...

Student Directory and Profiles 2009-2010
Department Chair: Dr. Allan WigfieldGraduate Director: Dr. Melanie Killen
| Name | Advisor | Area of Interest | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aldoney, Daniela | daldoney@umd.edu | Cabrera | Parenting, parent-child relationships |
| Baker, Sandra | sannbaker@yahoo.com | Wentzel | Self-regulation; coordination of multiple goals; achievement |
| Brenick, Alaina | abrenick@umd.edu | Killen | Social and moral development, stereotyping, teaching tolerance especially in Mid-East |
| Cambria, Jenna | jennamcambria@gmail.com | Wigfield | Achievement motivation |
| Chae, Soo Eun | schae@umd.edu | Alexander | L2 academic writing |
| Chen, Candise | candisec@umd.edu | Wang | Bilingual and bi-literacy development |
| Coddington Cassie | cshular@umd.edu | Guthrie | Reading motivation |
| Dashiell-Aje, Ebony | edashiell@yahoo.com | Rubin | Adolescent social and emotional development |
| Denmark, Nicole | ndenmark@umd.edu | Jones-Harden | Influences on parenting and children’s social development |
| Dinsmore, Dan | dinsmore@umd.edu | Alexander | Strategic processing |
| Duchene, Melissa | Melissa_Duchene@yahoo.com | Jones-Harden | Parenting styles, autism, social competence |
| Ellison, Kathryn | katellis@umd.edu | Rubin | Parenting, parent-child relationships |
| Fountain, Lily | fountain@son.umaryland.edu | Alexander | Motivation, professional education |
| Fox, Emily | efox@umd.edu | Alexander | Reading expertise |
| Fredstrom, Bridget | bfred@umd.edu | Rubin | Friendship; social cognition; peer relationships |
| Gao, Wei | wgao@umd.edu | Wang | Early literacy acquisition; bilingual development |
| Grossnickle, Emily | egross3@umd.edu | Alexander | Teacher education; literacy instruction |
| Guha, Mona Leigh | monaleigh@stonegatetech.com | Druin | Young children, technology development and story telling |
| Hardin, Michael | mhardin@umd.edu, hardinm@mail.nih.gov | Fox | Social and emotional development; developmental psychopathy, cognitive neuroscience |
| Helfinstein, Sarah | shelfins@gmail.com | Fox | NACS: Neural correlates of reward processing and decision making |
| Herman, Khalisa | kherman@umd.edu | Fox | Developmental Science |
| Hitti, Aline | aih@umd.edu | Killen | Exclusion, stereotyping and moral judgment in cultural contexts |
| Ho, Amy | amyho@umd.edu | Wigfield | Developmental Science |
| Jackson, Alice | ajacks14@umd.edu | Wang | NACS |
| Kelly, Megan Clark | mclark8@umd.edu | Killen | Social and moral development |
| Kennard (Quenneville), Kathryn | quennekm@umd.edu | Torney-Purta | Adolescent student motivation, social development and dynamics and student/teacher relationships |
| Kennedy, Tracy | kennedyt@umd.edu | Cabrera | Human Development |
| Kim, Say Young | saykim@umd.edu | Wang | Bilingual acquisition and development; cross-language comparison |
| Ko, In Yeong | iyko@umd.edu | Wang | Language and reading acquisition |
| Kondelis, Brianne | bkondel@umd.edu | Cabrera | Parenting, parent education, intervention programs |
| Kovacs, Sarrit | sarrit@umd.edu | Rubin | Parenting, parent-child relationships, children's self-esteem |
| Li, Tongyun | tongyun@umd.edu | Rowe | Educational psychology |
| List, Alexandra | alist@umd.edu | Alexander | Interest, Self-regualtion, and Second language learning |
| Loughlin, Sandra | Sandra.Loughlin@gmail.com | Alexander | Reading comprehension, art comprehension, cognitive processing |
| Maggioni, Liliana | liliana@umd.edu | Alexander | Epistemological beliefs, history teaching |
| Mason, Amanda | ammason@umd.edu | Wigfield | Attachment relationships, achievement motivation, knowledge acquisition and retention |
| McCallan, Stacy | smccalla@umd.edu | Jones-Harden | Urban education; cultural influences on learning; program development and evaluation |
| McRae, Angela | mcrae@umd.edu | Guthrie | Reading motivation |
| Menzer, Melissa | mmenzer@umd.edu | Rubin | Children and adolescent peer relationships |
| Michael, Shannon | smichae2@umd.edu | Wentzel | Understanding the impact of key factors at the family, peer, school, and community levels |
| Monahan, Colleen | cimonaha@gmail.com | Jones-Harden | Developmental science |
| Morrison, Danette | dmorriso@umd.edu | Wentzel | Interpersonal relationships, identity development, and academic achievement |
| Mulvey, Kelly Lynn | klmulvey@umd.edu | Killen | Moral development, specifically exclusion |
| Musu-Gillette, Lauren | lmusu@umd.edu | Hall | Educational psychology |
| Parkinson, Meghan | mparkin2@umd.edu | Alexander | Metacognition and word learning |
| Richardson, Cameron B. | crichar1@umd.edu | Killen | Morality and stereotyping |
| Russell, Shannon | russells@mail.umd.edu | Wentzel | Teacher-student relationships |
| Sand, Lesley | lsand@umd.edu | Wang | Educational psychology |
| Sanders-Reio, Joanne | sandersreio@netscape.net | Alexander | Technological support for writing |
| Vanderwert, Ross | rvanderw@umd.edu | Fox | Development of emotion regulation; EEG/ERP and Neuroscience |
| White, Jamell | jwhite19@umd.edu | Klein | Social-emotional development of young children and the influence of peers on development |
| White, Lauren | lwhite5@umd.edu | Fox | Development of social information processing biases; emotion-regulation; ERP/EEG |
| Williams, Alexis Y. | alexiswilliamsinc@hotmail.com | Wentzel | Achievement motivation, teacher-student relationships, social and academic goals and support, classroom context |
| Williams, Heather | Williams.Heather.M@gmail.com | Wigfield | Motivation, reading |
| Willis, Elizabeth J. | ejwillis@yahoo.com | Klein | Schools and Staffing Survey, SASS, survey research/methodology, large scale data analysis using SAS |
| Yi, Sunkyoug | sunkyoungyi@hotmail.com | Klein | English language learning and social interaction in ESL classrooms |
| Yoches, Meryl | myoches@umd.edu | Klein | Parental beliefs and decision making about chid care; child care quality |
| Zhang, Ting | zhangt@umd.edu | Torney-Purta | Cognition, learning, assessment, large scale data analysis, achievement motivation |
