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Janet A. Harkness
Director, Survey Research and Methodology (SRAM)
Dr. Harkness is a cross-cultural survey methodologist whose research focuses on the interface between questionnaire design and questionnaire translation. She was a Senior Scientist at ZUMA, Mannheim Germany and Director for Germany of the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) before moving to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to take up the Donald and Shirley Clifton Chair in Survey Science. She is a member of the Central Co-ordinating Team of the European Social Survey, convenor of the ISSP Methodology Committee, and co-ordinates the International Workshop on Comparative Survey Design and Implementation (www.csdi-workshop.org), as well as the ISSP methods groups on Questionnaire Design and on Translation. Her Master’s Degree from Edinburgh University was in Comparative Medieval Studies; she received a doctorate in English, Linguistics, and Cultural Anthropology, from Freiburg University, Germany.
jharkness2@unl.edu
200 N 11th St Gallup Rsch
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-0241 USA
Phone:402-458-5585
Fax:402-458-2038
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R. J. De Ayala
Chair, Educational Psychology
Dr.Ayala received his B.A. from University of Connecticut and his Phd from University of Texas, Austin.He workedTreasurer of The Psychometric Society from 1994 to 1997.He was Associate Professor in Department of Measurement, Statistics, and Evaluation at University of Maryland, College Park.Currently he is Department Chair & Professor in The Department of
Educational Psychology at University of Nebraska-Lincoln.His areas of interest are Item response theory, computerized adaptive testing, psychometrics, latent class analysis, hierarchical linear modeling.
rdeayala2@unl.edu
114B Teachers College Hall
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-0345 USA
Phone:402-472-2736
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Dan Hoyt
Chair, Department of Sociology
Dr. Hoyt received his Phd degree from University of Nebraska,Lincoln in 1980.He worked at different academic positions in Iowa State University before joining University of Nebraska ,Lincoln.He has been wiith University of Nebraska,Lincoln since 2001.His areas of specialization are Research Methods,Sociology of Mental Health,Deviance and Family Sociology.
dhoyt2@unlnotes.unl.edu
709 OLDFATHER HALL
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-0324 USA
Phone:402-472-3631
Fax:402-472-6070
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Julia McQuillan
Director, Bureau of Sociological Research (BOSR)
Dr. Mcquillan earned her B.A.(1989), M.A.(1991), and Ph.D.(1998) from the University of Connecticut. She came to UNL as an Assistant Professor of Sociology in 1998. She became interested in applied research in 1992 and had several research related positions in graduate school.Since being at UNL, Julia McQuillan has been on the BOSR advisory committee and collaborated as a consultant on the study of the death penalty in Nebraska.In 2005, she was promoted to associate professor in the Sociology department. For the 2004-2005 academic years, she was co-director of the Bureau and, in August 2005, she became the Bureau director.Julia enjoys researching gender and disease related problems and is part of the research team that obtained the 5-year NICHD Family Choices (infertility) project that the BOSR is currently conducting
jmcquillan2@unl.edu
706 OLDFATHER HALL
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-0324 USA
Phone:402-472-6616
Fax:402-472-6070
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Walt Stroup
Chair, Statistics
Walt Stroup is Professor and Chair of the UNL Department of Statistics. He has been on the UNL faculty since 1979. He has extensive experience consulting and collaborating with academic and industry researchers in a wide variety of disciplines (psychology, education, public health, biological science, economic development in developing countries, agriculture, natural resources, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, etc.). His research specialties are statistical modeling, especially generalized and mixed (a.k.a. hierarchical) models, and design of experiments and quasi-experiments. He was involved in a multi-state regional project that led to SAS’s development of its mixed model software (PROC MIXED, NLMIXED, and GLIMMIX). He has worked as a statistical and user advisor to SAS in the development and refinement of these PROCs. He has co-authored textbooks SAS for Mixed Models (1st and 2nd editions) and SAS for Linear Models, 4th ed. – books that have won awards for technical communication and have become the standard texts in their area for practical application on linear and mixed model analysis. He has taught a variety of undergraduate- and graduate-level modeling courses and mixed model short-courses and workshops to a variety of academic and industry audiences in the U.S., Europe, and Africa. He is co-founder of the SSP Core Facility.
wstroup1@unl.edu
340 HARDIN HALL North(East Campus)
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, Nebraska 68583-0963 USA
Phone:402-472-1149
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Kimberly Andrews Espy
Associate Vice Chancellor of Research at UNL
Trained as a Clinical Neuropsychologist, Dr. Espy is a Professor in the Department of Psychology and the Associate Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Her research focuses on identifying the antecedents of learning, attention, and behavioral disorders in medically at-risk populations, including those born prematurely, those exposed to substances of abuse during pregnancy, and those exposed to toxicants in their environment. Another area of study includes normative development of emergent cognitive skills in young children and infants, including executive control, learning, memory, and attention. In collaboration with colleagues at Georgia State University, the University of Aberdeen, and the University of Illinois at Chicago, Dr. Espy is exploring the comparative parallels in executive control in young children and primates, and the relation of executive control to everyday behavior and to academic outcomes, such as mathematics. In her work, she utilizes developmental cognitive neuroscience paradigms to investigate cognitive development, and its perturbations, in young children, infants, and neonates. Finally, Dr. Espy has an overarching interest in advanced multivariate statistics in general, and growth modeling in particular.
In 2001, Dr. Espy received the Rita G. Rudel Award for Pediatric Neuropsychology and Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. In 2005, she received the Early Career Award from Division 40 (Clinical Neuropsychology) of the American Psychological Association, and also was selected as a Fellow of the same division. Her work currently is funded by The National Institutes of Health / National Institute on Drug Abuse, The National Institute of Mental Health, and the National Institute of Child Health and Development. She serves on the editorial board of Developmental Neuropsychology, and is an ad-hoc reviewer for many journals. Dr. Espy is a member of the NIH study section, Child Psychopathology and Developmental Disabilities.
kespy2@unlnotes.unl.edu
303 Canfield Administration
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-0433 USA
Phone:402-472-2851
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Dave Hansen
Chair, Department of Psychology
Dr. Hansen joined the faculty in 1992. He received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Mississippi in 1985. Dr. Hansen is Chair of the Department of Psychology. His primary research area is child maltreatment (sexual abuse, physical abuse, neglect, and witnessing domestic violence), including factors related to identification and reporting, assessment and intervention with victims and families, and the correlates and consequences of maltreatment. An additional area of research is social-skills assessment and intervention with children and adolescents. His research emphasizes procedures for enhancing the effectiveness of clinical interventions, through assessing and improving adherence, generalization, maintenance, and social validity. Dr. Hansen is the Co-Director of the Family Interaction Skills Clinic (with Dr. Mary Fran Flood) and Director of Project SAFE, a clinical treatment program for sexually abused children and their families. Dr. Hansen’s teaching interests include clinical psychology, psychological assessment and intervention, clinical supervision, and family violence. Please see Dr. Hansen's Child Maltreatment Research Team website for additional information on research and clinical service/training opportunities. http://www.unl.edu/psypage/grad/maltreat_lab
dhansen1@unl.edu
238 BURNETT HALL
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-0308 USA
Phone:402-472-2619
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