Category: Faculty Profile

July 12, 2026

CFF Welcomes Lauren Ema as a Faculty Partner!

The Center for Families is pleased to welcome Dr. Lauren Ema, Clinical Assistant Professor in the Purdue School of Nursing, as its newest Faculty Partner. Her research interests include pediatric health promotion, pediatric illness and injury prevention, lactation support for working families, and the healthcare of the young family. Read more…

March 11, 2026

CFF Welcomes Meingold Chan as our Newest Faculty Partner!

CFF welcomes Dr. Meingold Chan, Human Development and Family Science, as a faculty partner. Her research on children’s socioemotional development, family emotion socialization and sociocultural influences enriches the center’s mission to strengthen families across diverse contexts.

October 19, 2025

CFF welcomes Laura Elenbaas as a faculty partner!

Laura Elenbaas joins CFF as an Assistant Professor of Human Development and Family Science. Research interests include moral development, social identities, social cognition, and peer relationships.

November 26, 2024

CFF welcomes Leigha MacNeill as a faculty partner!

Leigha MacNeill joins CFF as an Assistant Professor of Human Development and Family Science. Research interests include Social-emotional development in the family system and how such trajectories lead to mental health. She is actively aiming to translate developmental knowledge base...

November 14, 2024

CFF welcomes Mark Suchman as a faculty partner!

Mark Suchman joins CFF as a Professor of Sociology. Research interests include The impact of law and legal institutions on social and economic life, with a particular focus on how legal conditions create—or foreclose—opportunities for innovation, entrepreneurship, and technological change.

August 6, 2024

CFF welcomes Sooyeon Jeong as a faculty partner!

Sooyeon Jeong joins CFF as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science. Research interests include designing and deploying interactive AI agents that can improve people’s lives by providing personalized support based on each user’s needs, traits, and behaviors. Agents are deployed...

February 8, 2024

CFF welcomes Janine Duncan as a faculty partner!

Janine Duncan joins CFF as the Mary K. “Kitty” Decker Clinical Associate Professor of Family and Consumer Sciences Education. Research interests include family & consumer sciences (FCS)–broad field and education; professional literacy development; foundational perspectives; critical science framework; status of...