About the Faculty

A distinctive characteristic of the Department, is the creative collaborations fostered by its interdisciplinary nature. For example, the Family Violence Initiative (FVI) is a working group formed in 1997 by several faculty concerned with the causes, effects, and treatment of family violence. The FVI now includes eight collaborating faculty with backgrounds in clinical, counseling, and developmental psychology, marriage and family therapy, history, anthropology, and family studies. They have organized academic and professional symposia and stimulated innovative research into this pervasive and often hidden problem.

In such areas as early childhood education, parenting, work and family, sexuality, the elderly, and cultural issues, faculty at HDFS address issues of central importance to the families in Connecticut and around the world, and they bring to these issues a breadth of skills, experience, and collaboration unparalleled in more traditional academic units.

HDFS Faculty - Storrs Campus

Adjunct Faculty

Emeriti Faculty

Greater Hartford Regional Campus

Stamford Regional Campus

Torrington Regional Campus

Waterbury Regional Campus