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Senior Analyst at the US Government Accountability Office
Ph.D. 2010

Dissertation: Embodying Intimacy: Premarital Romantic Relationships, Sexuality, and Contraceptive Use Among Young Women in Contemporary Tokyo

Director of CARE Family Consultation
Ph.D. 2002

Dissertation: A Study of Hindu Married Couples: The Role of Family Living Arrangements and Gender in Maintaining Happiness and Well-Being

Morgan Distinguished Professor in Educational Innovations at the University of North Carolina
Ph.D. 1994

Dissertation: The Performance of Pretend Play: Enacting Peer Culture in Conversation

Associate Professor, College of Education, Michigan State University
Ph.D. 1998

Dissertation: Overcoming Challenges: Exploring the Role of Action, Experience, and Opportunity in Fostering Resilience among Adolescents

Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine-General Internal Medicine, Carver College of Medicine at the University of Iowa
Ph.D. 2016

Dissertation: Figuring Families: Caregiving in the Midst of Alzheimer's Disease

Professor of Psychology, California State University, Department of Psychology
Ph.D. 1982

Dissertation: Cooperation, Competition and Altruism Within Twin Sets: A Reappraisal

Postdoctoral Research Scholar and Lecturer, Columbia University

Ph.D. 2022

Dissertation: Intimate Rites: Remaking Ancestors and Queerness in Zimbabwe

Social and cultural psychology; development of political identity and ideology; inter-group conflict and religious nationalism; historical narratives and memory; education and South Asia.

Sociocultural anthropology; youth; social reproduction; employment; economic anthropology; collective trauma; social change; body; East Asia

Assistant Professor of Instruction, Department of Human Development & Social Policy, Northwestern University
Ph.D. 2012

Dissertation: Driven to Orthodoxy: Jewish Identity and Narratives of Exceptionalism, Essentialism, and the Family in American Jewish Culture as Motivations of "Conversion" to Orthodox Judaism