Our Ph.D. graduates are employed in a variety of academic and professional settings. They are deans, tenure-track professors at major universities and colleges, post-doctoral trainees, researchers, teachers, outreach educators, directors of programs for families, policy advisors, and statistical consultants. And those are only a few of the career possibilities available with training in Human Development and Family Science.
Find out more about where some of our Ph.D. alumni have worked below.
- Russ Toomey: Arizona State University
- Gabe Schlomer: Penn State University
- Lela Rankin: Arizona State University, School of Social Work
- Melanie Horn Mallers: California State University- Fullerton, Department of Human Services
- Ana Lucero-Liu: California State University- Northridge, Department of Family and Consumer Sciences
- Sun-A Lee: Georgia Southern University, School of Human Ecology
- Miriam Linver: Montclair State University (New Jersey), Department of Family and Child Studies
- Shevaun Neupert: North Carolina State University, Department of Psychology
- Hobart (Bo) Cleveland: Penn State University, Department of Human Development and Family Studies
- Brian Ogolsky: University of Illinois- Urbana/Champaign, Department of Human and Community Development
- Ada Wilkinson-Lee, Mimi Nichter: University of Arizona, Department of Mexican American Studies & Department of Anthropology
- Alexander Vaszonyi: University of Kentucky, Department of Family Sciences
- Rochelle Dalla: University of Nebraska, Department of Child, Youth and Family Studies
- Laura Scaramella: University of New Orleans, Department of Psychology
- Brenda Bass: University of Northern Iowa, School of Applied Human Sciences
- Dawn Gondoli: University of Notre Dame, Department of Psychology
- Jenifer McGuire: Washington State University, Department of Human Development
- Pamela Payne: Weber State University (Utah), Department of Child and Family Studies
- Renee Dennison: St. Mary's College of Maryland, Department of Psychology
- Yumi Shirai: University of Arizona, Director, ArtWorks, Department of Family and Community Medicine
- James Hunt: University of Arizona, School of Family and Consumer Sciences
- Meghan Raymond Longacre: Hood Center at Dartmouth University
- DenYelle Kenyon: Sanford Research, Center for Health Outcomes and Prevention (South Dakota)
- Melissa Page: University of Arizona
- Mary Marczak: University of Minnesota
- Joyce Serido: University of Arizona, Norton School of Family and Consumer Sciences