Leadership
David Finkelhor, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology and Director, Crimes against Children Research Center. Child victimization, child sexual abuse, juvenile justice, missing children, marital rape, and maltreatment of the elderly. e-mail: david.finkelhor@unh.edu.
Lisa Jones, Ph.D. Research Associate Professor. Child maltreatment, sexual abuse, child protective service and criminal justice systems, Transtheoretical Model of Change, measurement, evaluation research. E-mail: lisa.jones@unh.edu
Kimberly Mitchell (Lema), Ph.D. Research Professor. Youth Internet Victimization and trauma, exposure to violence, disability and child abuse, and methodology. e-mail: kimberly.mitchell@unh.edu
Researchers
Heather Turner, Ph.D. Professor of Sociology
Wendy Walsh, Ph.D., Research Associate Professor. email: wendy.walsh@unh.edu
Emily Douglas, Ph.D. emily.douglas.phd@gmail.com
Corinna Tucker, Ph.D. Professor Emerita. Director, SAARA
Tanya Whitworth, Ph.D. Research Scientist
Deirdre Colburn, Ph.D. Research Scientist
Research Affiliates
Melissa Bright, Ph.D.
Ateret Gerwitz-Meydan, Ph.D.
Sherry Hamby, Ph.D.
Jennifer O'Brien, Ph.D.
Ayelet Prior, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow
Michele Ybarra, Ph.D.
Staff
Alli Adams, Research Associate
Jennifer Bedsole, Administrative Assistant
Gabriela Crinigan, Research Associate
Leanne Gast, Research Associate
Gina Zwerling Kahn, Adjunct Research Associate
Additional information on Researchers and Staff can be found here: Researchers and Staff | Crimes against Children Research Center
In memoriam: Murray A. Straus, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Sociology, specialized in intimate partner violence, corporal punishment by parents, child abuse, measurement techniques, stress, rape, and homicide. Straus was internationally influential as the founder of the field of family violence research. He died May 13, 2016 at the age of 89. Straus spent most of his career, from 1968 until his death, at UNH, much of it as director of the Family Research Laboratory. Read more
