ASI - Key Persons

Adam Pritchard

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Research Associate, D'Aniello Institute for Veterans and Military Families

Adam Pritchard is a sociologist with expertise in criminology, rural populations, and military veterans. His criminology research has focused on victimization over the life course, including sexual victimization among college students, adult domestic violence, and homicide. His work with military veterans focuses on transition challenges including employment, education, and issues of place. He has expertise in survey research methodology, quantitative analysis, and researcher-practitioner partnerships.

Aesoon Park

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Professor, Psychology, College of Arts & Sciences

Alfonso Flores-Lagunes

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Professor, Economics, Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs

Amy Criss

ac..@syr.edu

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Professor of Psychology, College of Arts and Sciences

Andrew London

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Associate Dean for Maxwell Programs in DC, Professor of Sociology, Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs

Anna Wiersma Strauss

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Student, Public Administration

Arlene Kanter

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Associate
Professor
Professor of Law, College of Law

Professor Kanter publishes and lectures extensively on United States, comparative, and international Disability Law. She is the co-author of the first law casebook on international and comparative disability law and has published numerous articles and book chapters on disability law. In 2010-11, she was named the Distinguished Switzer Fellow by the US Department of Education's National Disability Rehabilitation Research Institute. In 2009-10, she was a Fulbright Scholar. In 2005, she received Syracuse University's most prestigious teaching award, the Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Award for Excellence in Teaching. She also holds a courtesy appointment in the School of Education. Professor Kanter is founder and co-editor of the SSRN Journal on Disability Law, and co-founder of the Disability Law Section of the American Association of Law Schools. She is a former Commissioner of the American Bar Association's Commission on Mental and Physical Disability Law. From 2001-06, Professor Kanter was invited to work with the United Nations on the process that lead to the UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities, and is currently researching the impact of this Convention in various countries, particularly in the Middle East. She has been invited to work with NGOs and governments in such countries as India, Israel, Turkey, Ghana, Jordan, and Vietnam on developing their domestic disability laws. At Syracuse University College of Law, Professor Kanter founded and directs the Disability Law and Policy Program, which houses the nation's first joint degree program in Law and Disability Studies and which awards a Certificate in Disability Law and Policy to eligible students. She also co-directs the Syracuse University Center on Human Policy, Law, and Disability Studies, which is the nation's first multi-disciplinary center dedicated to research, advocacy, academic programming, and public education on issues of inclusion and equality for people with disabilities. Professor Kanter teaches courses on U.S., comparative, and international disability law and policy, education and special education law, legislation and policy, ethics, and professionalism. Since joining the law faculty in 1988, Professor Kanter has served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Director of Clinical Legal Education, and Director of the Externship Program. Since 2005, she has been the Chair of the Chancellor's Task Force on Disability. Prior to joining the SU law faculty, Professor Kanter taught at Georgetown University Law Center and practiced public interest law at a national disability rights organization in Washington, D.C. where she represented clients before the United States Supreme Court and in Congress.

Asif Salekin

as..@syr.edu

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Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, College of Engineering & Computer Science

Azra Hromadzic

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Associate Professor, Anthropology, Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs

Bhavneet Walia

bw..@syr.edu

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Assistant Professor of Public Health in Falk College at Syracuse
Associate Professor, Public Health, Falk College of Sport & Human Dynamics

Bhavneet Walia is an Assistant Professor of Public Health in Falk College at Syracuse University and a Faculty Affiliate in Syracuse University's Aging Studies Institute and the Maxwell School's Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion. Bhavneet is an applied health and labor econometrician. Her research interests are in the areas of healthcare efficiency (including markets for healthcare workers), maternal-child health, disability research and sports epidemiology. Her research work has appeared in leading field journals, including JAMA Network Open, PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, BMJ Global Health, JMIR Human Factors, Journal of Market Access & Health Policy, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and Journal of Sports Economics. Bhavneet is a part of several funded research grant project, including an NIH funded ADA PARC project for disability research and a Fahs-Beck funded project on research and experimentation related to refugee health. Recently, Bhavneet's research scholarship has focused more prominently on understanding and improving the efficiency of telehealth. Within these research fields, she has published recent articles on Walia, B., Kmush, B. L., Lane, S. D., Endy, T., Montresor, A., & Larsen, D. A. (2021). Routine deworming during antenatal care decreases risk of neonatal mortality and low birthweight: a retrospective cohort of survey data. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 15(4), e0009282.

Brett Jakubiak

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Psychology

Brett Jakubiak investigates how involvement in close relationships helps individuals to manage stress, cope with chronic illness, and pursue personal goals. Additionally, he is interested in the individual and relational consequences of receiving affectionate touch throughout the adult lifespan. His training is in psychology, with specific expertise in social, personality, and health psychology. Brett uses experimental and observational methods and has experience with complex statistical analyses that are necessary to study dyads over time. He received a pre-doctoral NRSA training fellowship from the National Institute on Aging as a graduate student, and continues to conduct research focused on aging populations as an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Syracuse University and an affiliate of the SU Aging Studies Institute.

Carrie Jefferson Smith

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Professor, School of Social Work, Falk College of Sport & Human Dynamics

Catherine García

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Assistant Professor of Human Development and Family Science and Faculty Affiliate of the Aging Studies Institute
Assistant Professor, Human Development and Family Science, Falk College of Sport & Human Dynamics

Catherine García (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Human Development and Family Science and Faculty Affiliate of the Aging Studies Institute, the Center for Aging and Policy Studies, and the Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion. She earned her PhD in Gerontology from the University of Southern California in August 2020.

Colleen Heflin

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Professor of Public Administration
Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs, Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs

Colleen Heflin is a Professor of Public Administration and International Affairs, and a Senior Research Associate at the Center for Policy Research. Dr. Heflin conducts policy-relevant research that sits at the boundaries of sociology, economics, public health, public administration, and women's studies. The broad aim of her research is to understand the processes that create systems and patterns of social stratification and, more specifically, to examine welfare policy and the well-being of vulnerable populations, with a particular emphasis on the causes and consequences of material hardship. In a recent project, Dr. Heflin analyzed how specific shocks to family stability, such as unemployment or becoming disabled, lead to particular kinds of material hardship, such as medical or housing hardship. Other recent projects have examined how the population, using food stamps and unemployment insurance has changed with the Great Recession; how the experience of material hardship affects couples' decisions to marry; how children's participation in the National School Lunch Program (NSLP), the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), and the Child and Adult Care program participation compares to that of other groups.

David Kellen

dk..@syr.edu

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Associate Professor, Psychology, College of Arts & Sciences Link
Psychology

David M. Levy

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Professor of Law, College of Law

Deborah J. Monahan

dm..@syr.edu

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Emeritus Professor of Social Work, Falk College of Sport & Human Dynamics
Professor of Social Work at Syracuse University

Deborah J. Monahan, Ph. D. is a Professor of Social Work at Syracuse University and she been a member of the faculty since 1990. She is the Interim Associate Dean for Research in the College of Sport and Human Dynamics. She is a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America and has been a member of their publications committee and secretary of the section on Social Research, Policy and Practice. She has also been a member of the board of directors of the American Society on Aging and served on their research committee for ten years. She has been a research investigator on projects related to the efficacy of support groups, community alternatives to long term care, family caregiving, kinship caregiving, and adolescent pregnancy prevention. She is co-author with Ronald Toseland and David Haigler of the book, Education and Support Programs for Caregivers: Research, Practice and Policy published by Springer (2011). Her publications appear in journals such as the Gerontologist, Families in Society, Social Work, Nursing Economics, Journal of Gerontology, Psychology and Aging, Journal of Medical Education, and the Journal of Gerontological Social Work. She teaches courses in social work practice, clinical evaluation, and processes of aging.

Donald Carr

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Professor of Design, College of Visual and Performing Arts

Donna L. Korol

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Associate Professor of Biology, Retired, College of Arts & Sciences
Department of Biology As an Associate Professor
Professor

Donna L. Korol joined the Department of Biology as an Associate Professor in August 2012. Before coming to SU, Dr. Korol was a faculty member at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2000-2012), where she was an Associate Professor in the Departments of Psychology and of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, the Institute for Genomic Biology, and the College of Medicine. She was a dedicated member of the University of Illinois' Neuroscience program, serving many years on the Executive Committee, Admissions Committee, and as Outreach Coordinator for the program. Throughout her career, Professor Korol participated in many aging initiatives including the University of Arizona Committee on Gerontology, the University of Virginia Center on Aging, and the University of Illinois Initiative on Aging. Her interests in aging extend to the community where she has conducted continuing education colloquia on Geriatrics for Non-Physicians and developed and taught courses for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. Education initiatives, public engagement and community outreach indeed define many of Dr. Korol's extended activities. She has served on the education committee for Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology, on NSF grant review panels, and currently sits on the editorial board of three journals. In 2005, Professor Korol won the Hohenboken Teaching Enhancement Award for outstanding departmental teaching and is consistently included in the Illinois students published list of excellent teachers. In 2008, Dr. Korol won the Provost's Campus Committee on Promotion and Tenure Outstanding Achievement Award. Professor Korol's research focuses on the shifts in neural plasticity across the lifespan and under certain conditions such as changes in hormonal status, cognitive activity, and physical fitness. An overarching goal of her work is to understand the molecular and cellular processes that contribute to healthy aging and to pathological brain aging including Parkinson's disease. Dr. Korol's laboratory uses multiple levels of analysis and a neural systems approach to study how short- and long-lasting changes in cell signaling cascades, metabolism, and synaptic plasticity that vary by brain region regulate different types of learning and memory. One line of research investigates the modulation of memory system function by stress hormones and reproductive hormones such as estrogens, including those found in botanical dietary supplements. Another research thread examines the shared cellular mechanisms underlying the brain health benefits of physical and mental activity. Recent work from her lab indicates that motor deficits seen in a rat model of Parkinson's disease are accompanied by enhancements in some forms of memory that could be tapped for therapeutic purposes. She has published dozens of papers and has had funding from NIH, NSF, and private industry. Together, Dr. Korol's research program has important implications for maintaining brain function across aging in health and disease.

Doris Mahoney

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Grants Manager / Aging Studies Institute

Douglas Wolf

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Policy Analyst
Emeritus Professor, Public Administration, Research Professor of Aging Studies, Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs

Douglas Wolf is a demographer, policy analyst, program evaluator, and gerontological researcher with many years of experience studying the economic, demographic, and social aspects of aging and long-term care. Wolf's professional experience includes an appointment as an economist in the Office of Income Security of Health, Education and Welfare (now DHHS), several years at the Urban Institute culminating in a position as Director of its Population Studies Center, and several years at Syracuse University, where he is currently Professor of Public Administration and International Affairs, Gerald B. Cramer Professor of Aging Studies, and Associate Director of the Aging Studies Institute. Wolf also spent two years as a Research Scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Laxenburg, Austria where he worked with (and was Acting Director of) its Population Program. Wolf's research areas include several topics in the well-being and life course-patterns of the older population, such as disability dynamics and active life expectancy; household composition and parent-child coresidence; the dynamics of nursing home use; use of community-based long-term care resources; and the spatial distribution of kin and migration choices. A primary theme of Wolf's research is the role of family and kinship patterns in shaping the choices facing older people and their immediate kin with respect to living and care arrangements. Wolf has published over 100 articles and book chapters and has served on the editorial boards of several scholarly journals. He is a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America.

Dr. Katherine (Katie) McDonald

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Associate Dean of Research, Professor of Public Health, Falk College of Sport & Human Dynamics

Dr. Katherine (Katie) McDonald is a Community Psychologist who uses ecological theory and social action research to understand and promote the community integration of individuals with disabilities. Her current research spans two core areas of inquiry. (1) Respectful, Inclusive Research Practices for Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: Dr. McDonald has several projects involving the empirical study of human research ethics, with an emphasis on the research participation of adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Her long-term goal is to contribute an empirical perspective to respective, inclusive research practices for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. (2) Participatory Action Research Addressing Disparities: Dr. McDonald also conducts collaborative research with community-based organizations and community members on health, education and employment disparities experienced by individuals with disabilities. One long-standing collaboration is the Academic Autistic Spectrum Partnership in Research and Education (AASPIRE; www.aaspire.org ). AASPIRE conducts research on the needs of autistic adults through academic-autistic partnerships, including studies on access to quality healthcare and the online autistic community. With the Southeast ADA Center (www.sedbtac.org ), Dr. McDonald conducts research on understanding facilitators and persistent barriers to community participation among adults with disabilities. Other research projects involved collaborations with government and business collaborators to address the employment of individuals with disabilities and program evaluation capacity building with social service agencies serving ethnic and racial minorities with disabilities. Dr. McDonald is also involved in the teaching and practice of program evaluation and previously lived in community with individuals with and without intellectual disabilities in a community of L'Arche. Dr. McDonald is the past Chair of the Disability Action Group for the Society for Community Research and Action, division 27 of the American Psychological Association (http://www.scra27.org/). She has also served on the Boards of Directors for L'Arche Nehalem (http://larche-portland.org), l'Arche Chicago (www.larchechicago.org ), and the Arc of Multnomah-Clackamas County as well as on the Institutional Review Board at University of Illinois at Chicago and Portland State University. Dr. McDonald received the Stevens-Shapiro Fellowship from the International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual Disabilities (IASSID) and was an International Visiting Fellow at the University of Western Sydney in Australia. Prior to joining the faculty at Syracuse University, Dr. McDonald was an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Portland State University (Portland, Oregon).

Eileen Schell

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Associate Professor of Writing and Rhetoric at Syracuse University
Professor of Writing Studies, Rhetoric, and Composition, College of Arts & Sciences

Eileen Schell is Associate Professor of Writing and Rhetoric at Syracuse University where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in writing and rhetoric and leads community writing groups for senior citizens and military veterans. Schell is the author of Gypsy Academics and Mother-teachers: Gender, Contingent Labor, and Writing Instruction (Heinemann, 1997) and co-author of Rural Literacies (Southern Illinois University Press, 2007). She is also the co-editor of three collections: Moving a Mountain: Transforming the Role of Contingent Faculty in Composition Studies and Higher Education (NCTE, 2000); Rhetorica in Motion: Feminist Rhetorical Methods and Methodologies (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010); and Reclaiming the Rural: Essays on Literacy, Rhetoric, and Pedagogy (Southern Illinois University Press, 2012). Schell's work in Gerontology Studies centers around community writing groups for the elderly. She has facilitated the Nottingham Senior Living Community Intergenerational Writing Group since 1999. She work with senior citizens ages 70-98 who are writing their autobiographies and memoirs at the Nottingham. Syracuse University undergraduate writing interns working with Schell and the group to produce a biannual newsletter of residents' writing.

Ellyn A. Riley

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Associate Professor, Communication Sciences & Disorders, College of Arts & Sciences

Emily Wiemers

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Associate Professor of Public Administration
Public Administration and International Affairs, Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs

Emily Wiemers is an Associate Professor of Public Administration and International Affairs, a Faculty Associate at the Aging Studies Institute, and a Faculty Affiliate in the Center for Policy Research. She holds a Ph.D. in economics from UCLA, a M.A. from University College Dublin, and a B.A. from Brown University. Her work examines intergenerational ties and economic well-being across the life course. Her recent work focuses the impact of health and disability on earnings instability and intergenerational transfers across adult ages. She is a recipient of research grants from the National Institute on Aging, Russell Sage Foundation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and Washington Center for Equitable Growth. Professor Wiemers's research has been published in journals such as Demography, Population Development Review, The Gerontologist, and Review of Economics of the Household.

Eric Kingson

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Professor
Professor, School of Social Work, Falk College of Sport & Human Dynamics

Eric Kingson, professor of social work, is a member of the Syracuse University School of Social Work's faculty. A 2007 recipient of the Syracuse University Chancellor's Citation for Faculty Excellence and Scholarly Distinction and Syracuse University's 2010 Martin Luther King, Jr. Unsung Hero Award, he is founding co-director of the Social Security Works (www.socialsecurity-works.org ), and co-chairs the Strengthen Social Security Campaign (www.strengthensocialsecurity.org ), a coalition of over 300 national and state organizations. A founding board member of the National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI), he is a past-chair of the Social Research, Policy and Practice section of the Gerontological Society of America and is currently on the board of the National Committee for the Preservation Social Security and Medicare Foundation. Kingson served as policy advisor to two presidential commissions (1982-3, 1994-5) and directed the Emerging Issues in Aging Program of the Gerontological Society of America (1984-5). He received his doctorate in 1979 from Brandeis University's Florence Heller School for Social Policy and Management; his M.P.A. in 1976 from Northeastern University. His scholarship examines the politics and economics of population aging, Social Security policy, the baby boomers, and cross-generational obligations. His research also examines the distributional effects of changes in retirement age.

Erin Bisesti

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Student, Sociology

Fiona Chew

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Communications
Professor Emerita, Television, Radio & Film, S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications

Fiona Chew, Ph.D. (Communications), University of Washington, is a Professor of Public Communications at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University (http://facultynh.syr.edu/cmrfchew/).

Fulbright Visiting Scholar

Gary V. Engelhardt

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Professor, Economics, Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs

Gary V. Engelhardt is the Melvin A. Eggers Faculty Scholar and Professor of Economics in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, and a Faculty Associate in the Syracuse University Aging Studies Institute. He holds a B.A. in economics from Carleton College and a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Engelhardt's specialties are in the economics of aging, household saving, pensions, Social Security, taxation, and housing markets. His current research focuses on three areas: The impact of Social Security on economic well-being in retirement, sponsored by the Social Security Administrations; the impact of health and cognition on housing decisions in old age; and the role of financial literacy in saving behavior. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in public economics, applied econometrics, and program evaluation. His work and commentary have been featured nationally, including in The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Fox News, CNBC, MSNBC, National Public Radio's Morning Edition, and American Public Media's Marketplace.

Halim Yoon

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Student, Public Administration

Haowei Wang

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Assistant Professor, Sociology, Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs

James H. Henderson

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Professor, Biomedical and Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering & Computer Science

Jamie Desjardins

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Associate
Associate Teaching Professor, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, College of Arts & Sciences

Jamie Desjardins is an Associate Teaching Professor and Director of Undergraduate Programs in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders (CSD). She teaches both in the graduate Doctor of Audiology program and in the undergraduate program in CSD. Her research focuses on the aging auditory system and hearing aid use among older adults. The primary objective of her research is to improve hearing health care for older adults through both basic and clinical research. Currently, she is examining the effects of bilingualism on speech perception and listening effort in older adults. In addition to her scholarly work, Dr. Desjardins is a licensed clinical audiologist with more than fifteen years of experience in adult diagnostics and hearing aids.

Janet Wilmoth

jw..@syr.edu

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Director, Aging Studies Institute, and Professor, Sociology, Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs

Janet Wilmoth has a Ph.D. in Sociology and Demography, with a minor in Gerontology, from the Pennsylvania State University. She is a Professor of Sociology, Director of the Aging Studies Institute, Senior Research Affiliate in the Center for Policy Research, and Faculty Associate in the Institute for Veterans and Military Families at Syracuse University. She has published in the areas of older adult migration, living arrangements, and health status. Her recent research explores how military service shapes various life course outcomes related to marriage and family, economic well-being, and disability. Her research has received funding from the National Institute on Aging, the Social Security Administration, and the National Poverty Center. Professor Wilmoth has authored over 75 articles and book chapters, coedited Gerontology: Perspectives and Issues, 3rd and 4th Editions, Life Course Perspectives on Military Service, Later-Life Social Support and Service Provision in Diverse and Vulnerable Populations, and Life-Course Implications of U.S. Public Policy, and served as an Associate Editor for the Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences, 8th and 9th Editions.

Jeewon Oh

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Psychology

Jeewon Oh is interested in how people find the good life (i.e., happiness and health) inside and out of close relationships. Specifically, her research examines predictors of relational and individual well-being across the lifespan. At the heart of this interest are questions regarding how members of a relationship are influenced by one another and how positive traits develop over time. For example, she has been involved in projects examining how and why single people's well-being changes over time and is interested in further examining predictors of healthy aging during relationship transitions/stability.

Jeffrey Zemla

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Assistant Professor, Psychology, College of Arts & Sciences Link
Psychology

Jennifer Karas Montez

jm..@syr.edu

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University Professor, Professor of Sociology, and Gerald B. Cramer Faculty Scholar in Aging Studies, Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs

Jeung Hyun Kim

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Student, Sociology

Jeung Hyun Kim is a second year Sociology PhD. student and holds her BA in Political Science and MPhil in Development studies. Jeung Hyun is interested in family dynamics in special reference to intergenerational relationships of (im)migrant racial minorities in aging societies. Before coming to Syracuse, Jeung Hyun worked at the IOM-MRTC (Migration Research and Training Centre of the International Organization for Migration) and KWDI (Korean Women's Development Institute).

Jillian Scheer

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Assistant Professor, Psychology, College of Arts & Sciences Link
Psychology

John L. Palmer

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University Professor
University Professor and Dean Emeritus, Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs

John L. Palmer is a University Professor and Dean-Emeritus of the Maxwell School at Syracuse University, where he has been on the faculty since 1988. He also recently served two presidentially-appointed terms as a public trustee for the Medicare and Social Security programs. Prior to moving to Syracuse to assume the Maxwell deanship, Dr. Palmer ccupied several different positions in Washington, DC, including Senior Fellow of The Brookings Institution and of The Urban Institute and Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation of the Department of Health and Human Services. He has published 13 books and many professional and popular articles on a wide range of topics related to economic, budgetary and social policy concerns and won an award for teaching excellence at the graduate level in the Maxwell School. He also has provided expert testimony to Congress on numerous occasions and served as a consultant to various government agencies, private foundations, and universities. He is a senior fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration and former president of the National Academy of Social Insurance. His other past professional activities have included serving on various committees of the National Academy of Sciences and the Visiting Committee of The Brookings Institution; current professional activities include serving on the Council of Academic Advisors of the American Enterprise Institute, the Board of Directors of the New York State Health Foundation, and the Advisory Board of the Robertson Foundation for Government. Dr. Palmer received a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University and a B.A. from Williams College.

Joonsik Yoon

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Student, Social Science
Student, Social Science Link

Joseph W. Ditre

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Professor, Psychology, College of Arts & Sciences

Julene Kemp Cooney

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Student, Sociology

Julia Finan

jf..@syr.edu

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Student, Sociology
Student, Sociology Link

Jun Li

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Public Administration & International Affairs, Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs

Kamala Ramadoss

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Associate Professor, Human Development and Family Science, Falk College of Sport & Human Dynamics

Karen Doherty

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Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders, College of Arts & Sciences

Karen Tavernese

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Assistant Director / Aging Studies Institute
Assistant Director Link

Katharine (Kate) Lewis

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Professor of Biology, College of Arts & Sciences

Katherine Hills

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Administrative Assistant / Aging Studies Institute
Administrative Assistant Link

Kathy Vander Werff

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Associate Professor of Audiology in the Department
Professor of Communications Sciences and Disorders, College of Arts & Sciences

Kathy Vander Werff is an Associate Professor of Audiology in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders. She primarily teaches in the graduate Doctor of Audiology program in the areas of instrumentation, cochlear implants, research methods, and auditory evoked potentials. Dr. Vander Werff has been actively engaged in research in diagnostic audiology and applications of behavioral and electrophysiological measures to better understand difficulties in hearing and understanding speech for the past 10 years. She is currently the principle investigator on an NIH funded project over the last few years examining central auditory processing in individuals with long-term symptoms due to mild traumatic brain injury and is actively involved in a TBI Working Group comprised of researchers on the neighboring campuses of Syracuse University, SUNY Upstate Medical University and the Syracuse VAMC. In addition to the traumatically damaged auditory system, her research interests include investigating the aging central auditory system using neural responses recorded from the brainstem and central auditory system to better understand how auditory processing abilities change in the aging brain for individuals with and without hearing loss.