APPOINTMENTS

07/2022 - 05/2024 Intermittent Expert, Division of Social and Economic Sciences, National Science Foundation

08/2023 - 07/2024 Interim Chair, Department of Family, Nutrition and Exercise Sciences

09/2021 - 06/2022 AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow, Division of Social and Economic Sciences, National Science Foundation

08/2020 - 12/2020 Special Assistant to the Provost for Graduate Studies, Queens College, CUNY

08/2019 - 05/2020 Provost's Faculty Fellow, Queens College, CUNY

08/2016 - 08/2017 Deputy Department Chair, FNES, Queens College, CUNY

08/2012 - present Professor, Human Development and Family Science, Queens College, CUNY

01/2009 - 07/2012 Associate Professor, Family Studies, Queens College, CUNY

08/2003 - present Program Director and Advisor, Human Development and Family Science, Queens College, CUNY

08/2003 - 12/2008 Assistant Professor, Family Studies, Queens College, CUNY

EDUCATION

2002 Ph.D., Child and Family Studies, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

1999 M. A., Marriage and Family Therapy, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

1997 B. S., Psychology, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS

Spring 2003 Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA

Fall 2002 Tufts University, Child Development Department, Boston, MA

AWARDS AND HONORS

• Jan Trost Award, National Council on Family Relations International Section, 2023

• Florence Kaslow Distinguished Contribution to International Family Psychology Award, American Psychological Association, Division 43 Society for Family Psychology, 2020

• HERS Leadership Institute for Women in Higher Education alumna, 2020

• National Council on Family Relations International Section Chair, 2017-2019

• U.S. Department of State, Fulbright Specialist Award - University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal, 2016

• U.S. Department of State, Fulbright Specialist Award - Seoul National University, South Korea, 2012

• Fellow, American Psychological Association,   Division 37 Society for Child and Family Policy and Practice  2013, Division 43 Family Psychology   2012, Division 52 International Psychology  2011

• Carolyn Attneave Diversity Award, American Psychological Association, Division 43 Society for Family Psychology, 2010

• National Council on Family Relations Representative to the United Nations, 2009 - present

• The Spencer Foundation Grant, 2009-2011

• U.S. Department of State, American Councils Advanced Research Fellowship, 2008-2009

• Fahs-Beck Fund for Research Faculty Grant, 2008-2009

• Jacobs Foundation Publication Award, 2004

• Dissertation Grant, Jacobs Foundation, 2001-2002

• Soros Foundation Award, 1997

• Syracuse University Graduate Fellowship, 1997-2000

• National Scholarship and Fellowship, Romania, 1992-1997

VISITING ACADEMIC

Spring 2018 Center for Gender Studies, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

Fall 2017 UNICEF Office of Research Innocenti, Florence, Italy

Fall 2017 UN Research Institute for Social Development, Geneva, Switzerland

Spring 2011 Center on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), University of Oxford, UK

Fall 2010 Department of Sociology, University of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden

TEACHING

*Ethics and Professional Development (FNES 360), 2019-

Research Methods II (FNES 797), 2004-

Research Methods I (FNES 796), 2004-

The Child in the Family (FNES 745), 2003-

*Counseling Sexuality (FNES 356), 2010-

*Child and Family Policies (FNES 249), 2006-

*Families in Cross-Cultural Perspectives (FNES 347), 2006-

*Families and Communities (FNES 348),2005-

Family Relations (FNES 147), 2015-

Child Development and Parenting (FNES 140), 2005-

Family Issues and Conflict Resolution (FNES 349), 2004-

Problems in the Family (FNES 248), 2003-

* new course developed and introduced into curriculum