SSHD - Emerging Scholars Committee
The SSHD Emerging Scholars (ES) committee consists of students, post-docs, and early career faculty who are interested in working to provide career development and networking opportunities for all emerging scholars in SSHD. This includes proposing, developing, and implementing programs, activities, and events in collaboration with other SSHD committees (e.g., Steering, Activities, Conference Planning). Recent examples include the Emerging Scholars Dinner held regularly at the biennial SSHD conference, and career development webinars organized by the Activities Committee.
Interested in joining the committee? The ES Committee welcomes nominations of exceptional graduate students, post-doctoral researchers, and early career faculty from around the world to join the committee who will represent the next cohort of multidisciplinary life-span researchers. The Emerging Scholars Committee is committed to supporting diversity in the life span developmental / life course research community, and particularly encourages individuals from under-represented groups to inquire about joining. Please direct any questions to the current chair of the committee, Steven Hanna via email at srh5371@psu.edu.
SSHD Emerging Scholars Current Membership:
Chair (2024-2026) – Steven Hanna, M.S., Doctoral Candidate in Recreation, Park, and Tourism Management, Pennsylvania State University
Members:
Megan Burkhardt-Reed PhD, President's Postdoctoral Fellow in Communication and Psychology, University of California-Los Angeles
Tess Fulcher, Ph.D., Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences, University of Chicago.
Jessica LaFontaine Suffolk University
Qingyang Liu, M.S., Doctoral Candidate in Human Development and Family Sciences, Syracuse University
Trevor Makhetha,
Ekaterina Novikova, M.A., Doctoral Candidate in Human Development and Family Sciences, University of Delaware
Beth Phelps (she/her) M.S., PhD Student & Graduate Research Assistant in Human Development and Family Sciences, Oregon State University
Ashley E. Shafer, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Associate at the Office of Child Development, University of Pittsburgh
Bhavna Sharma, MA., PhD Candidate and undergraduate instructor, Department of Sociology, University of Florida
Kimia Shirzad, M.S., Doctoral Candidate in Recreation, Park, and Tourism Management, Pennsylvania State University
Ying Zhang, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in Psychology, Clarkson University