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University of Nebraska–Lincoln

Family and Consumer Sciences

College of Education and Human Sciences

Family Science Program Faculty

Below you will find a listing of faculty within the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences. These faculty have primary responsibility for the coursework required for the Family Science career path. Click on the highlighted names for a more detailed description of faculty member interests and for contact information.

Doug Abbott, Ph.D., Professor. Research Interests: Family life education.

Richard J. Bischoff, Ph.D., Associate Professor and MFT Program Director Research Interests: Therapist development; Health related quality of life; Over use of medical services; The role of family therapy in medical care.

Sheran Cramer, Ph.D., Associate Professor. Research Interests: Research on the economics of retirement; Gambling participation and attitudes of Nebraska families; Successful aging of Nebraska women; Retirement issues of Sweden and the United Kingdom.

Rochelle Dalla, Ph.D., Associate Professor. Research Interests: Street-level prostitution; Immigration in rural meat-packing communities; Substance use and psychiatric co-morbidity among Latino immigrants in rural communities.

Cody Hollist, Ph.D., Assistant Professor. Research Interests: Adolescent mental health risk; High risk adolescent behaviors; Family dynamics of high risk adolescents; Family treatment of adolescent mental health.

Cathey Huddleston-Casas, Ph.D., Assistant Professor. Research Interests: Impact of the interdependence of work, family and social policy systems on family economic well-being; Examination of how the definition policymakers use to identify families as working-poor may limit the reach of social programs and how reliance on social capital may compensate for lacking access to program benefits.

Yan Xia, Ph.D., Assistant Professor. Research Interests: Substance abuse and behavioral health issues among Asian immigrant youth; Substance abuse and behavioral health issues among Latino immigrants in rural communities; Risk and protective factors for substance abuse among youth's-secondary data analysis of National Household Survey on Drug Use; Chinese families with adolescent children; Challenges and resiliency of immigrant families.