Faculty News

The Child and Adolescent Data Lab, with Associate Professors Joe Ryan and Brian Perron received a grant from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, Michigan Committee on Juvenile Justice to provide data analytic support and consultation to the State of Michigan related to juvenile justice, with an emphasis on mental health courts, raise the age legislation and understanding the school-to-prison pipeline.

Assistant Professor Kristin Seefeldt was on San Francisco public radio KALW’s "Your Call" where she discussed her new book, “Abandoned Families: Social Isolation in the Twenty-First Century.”

Professors Linda Chatters and Robert Taylor’s article, “Microaggressions, Discrimination, and Phenotype among African Americans: A Latent Class Analysis of the Impact of Skin Tone and BMI” was published in Sociological Inquiry.

Assistant Professor Mathieu Despard received a grant from the JP Morgan Chase Foundation to generate new evidence concerning workplace financial wellness programs as a promising strategy for building financial security among low and moderate income workers through services such as financial coaching, payroll advance loans, and building savings.

Professor Richard Tolman’s article, “Getting men in the room: perceptions of effective strategies to initiate men’s involvement in gender-based violence prevention in a global sample” was published in Culture, Health & Sexuality.

Professor Jorge Delva was accepted to the 2017-2018 New Leadership Academy Fellows Program. The learning strategies informing the fellowship experience are premised on a recognition that the demographic, democratic, and discursive foundations on which modern higher education have been built are changing.

Associate Professor Luke Shaefer and Assistant Professors Mathieu Despard and Addie Weaver were featured in the February 2017 issue of U-M Research, which focuses on Poverty Solutions.

Assistant Professor Mathieu Despard’s article, “Revenue diversification and the financial challenges and strengths of non-governmental organizations in sub-Saharan Africa” was published in the International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations.