Child & Family Research Network | Our Fellows
Our Fellows
Our fellowship program mentors scholars in career development, grantsmanship, and building interdisciplinary teams.
CFRN supports a fellowship program to mentor scholars doing research on children, families, and their contexts in career development, grant writing, and interdisciplinary team building. Each year a call for applications is distributed by mid-summer and fellows are selected in early fall around a theme or context. Fellows have priority for CFRN research stipends through a competitive application process.
This program entails:
- Fellows committing to CFRN programming
- Attending mentorship meetings with CFRN leadership
- Connecting with a at least one other scholar on campus
For more information or to be considered, email us.
Our Current and Past Fellows
Parent-child communication in early childhood: From Observation to Intervention!
- Heather Coleman, Assistant Professor in the Specialized Education Services Department
- Dr. Coleman’s research focuses on young children with autism, and she is particularly interested in communication interventions, parent coaching, and personnel preparation.
- Margaret “Megan” Fields-Olivieri, Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department,
- Dr. Fields-Oliveiri researches parent-toddler emotional and verbal communication processes, especially in the context of socioeconomic or psychosocial risk, and how these processes impact early emotional and language development.
Resilience in Minoritized Children and Families
- Bridget Cheeks, Assistant Professor, Human Development and Family Studies
- Dr. Cheeks’s research focuses on parental racial socialization and its implications for African American adolescents’ and college students’ positive development
- Michelle Martin Romero, Assistant Professor, Public Health Education
- At the heart of Dr. Martin Romero’s research lies the objective to understand agency and resilience in the context of health disparities among racial-ethnic minoritized youth and families living in poor/low-income settings.
- Kierra Sattler, Assistant Professor, Human Development and Family Studies
- Dr. Sattler’s research focuses on childhood exposures to poverty or maltreatment as sources of risk, with the aim of advancing scientific knowledge and informing interventions that promote the well-being of children from high-risk families.