Expertise

Research Interests:

  • Fathering
  • Parenting & Co-parenting
  • Couple relationships
  • Poverty, Economic Risk, & Neighborhood Risk
  • Early Childhood Development

Research Projects:

  • Paternal Factors and Childhood Outcomes

Skills and Expertise:

  • Bayesian Inference
  • Fathers
  • Early Childhood
  • Longitudinal Data Analysis
  • Family Studies
  • Program Evaluation
  • Geographic Information System
  • Machine Learning
  • Neighborhood.
Communities
Human Development
Degrees
PhD, Syracuse University, Child and Family Studies, 2016
MS, Syracuse University, Applied Statistics, 2014
MS, Syracuse University, Child and Family Studies, 2013
BA, Sakarya University, Serdivan, Turkey, Sociology, 2004
Keywords
cross cultural studies family at-risk children or youth child abuse & neglect program evaluation (social sciences) geographic information systems parent education mental health early childhood development couple relationships fathering poverty
Languages
English, Turkish
Associations
National Council on Family Relations