Expertise

Research Interest:

  • Military Families
  • Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
  • Online Education
  • Intergenerational Relationships
  • Social Network Analysis

Research Projects:

  • Military Families Learning Network
  • Exceptional Longevity in Rural Environments
  • Iowa Healthy Links Systems: Chronic Disease Self Management
  • Adolescent Grandchildren & Their Grandparents: Intergenerational relationship solidarity
Degrees
PhD, Iowa State University, Human Development & Family Studies, 1997
MS, Iowa State University, Human Development & Family Studies, 1994
BA, Washington State University, Sociology, 1991