Career Placements

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