Steve Borgatti (S**)Professor and Endowed Chair Email: sborgatti@uky.edu Dr. Borgatti’s research is focused on social networks. Dr. Borgatti is a member of the University of Kentucky LINKS Center for Research on Social Networks in Business research institute, which focuses on the study of social networks in business settings. Dr. Borgatti is a Senior Editor at Organization Science, and an Associate Editor at Journal of Supply Chain Management, as well as Computational and Mathematical Organizational Theory. He also sits on the editorial boards of Administrative Science Quarterly and Field Methods. He is the author of a number of well-known programs, including: UCINET, a software package for social network analysis; Anthropac, for analyzing cultural domain data; and, E-NET, for analyzing network data collected via personal network research design. |
Richard Clayton (S**)Professor Emeritus, Department of Health Behavior Email: clayton@uky.edu Dr. Clayton was the first Chair of the Department of Health Behavior and the first Associate Dean for Research in the College of Public Health. Since 1986 he has been the Director of the Center for Prevention Research, the first and only such center funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse in the first round of funding. From 1996 through 2009 he was Chair of the transdisciplinary Tobacco Etiology Research Network (TERN) funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He also served two years as Chair of the transdisciplinary Tobacco Research Network on Disparities (TReND) funded by the National Cancer Institute and the American Legacy Foundation. Both networks involved over 20 senior scientists from disciplines ranging from cells to society and from major research universities around the country. Dr. Clayton has written 8 books and has published well over 100 articles. He wrote the only required chapter in the first, second and fourth Triennial Reports to Congress on Drug Abuse and Drug Abuse Research. From 1990-1993 he served on the National Advisory Council for the National Institute on Drug Abuse. In 2005 he received the Presidential Award from the Society for Prevention Research for lifetime contributions to prevention activities and prevention research. From 1970 until January of 2001 when he accepted the Good Samaritan Foundation Chair position in the UK School of Public Health, he was a Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Kentucky. He is the co-developer of the Cooper/Clayton Method to Stop Smoking, a comprehensive behavioral oriented smoking cessation program that utilizes nicotine replacement therapy and group support. Working with the Kentucky Cancer Program and local health departments, Drs. Cooper and Clayton have trained over 1,300 community-based facilitators to deliver the program throughout Kentucky and in a number of other venues as well. Dr. Clayton has been the principal investigator on $28.6 million in extramural grants and a co-investigator on about $16 million in other extramural grants. In 1984 Dr. Clayton was named by the President as a University Research Professor and, in 1985, he received the Great Teacher Award from the UK Alumni Association. In 2012 he will be working with the National Centre for Youth Mental Health on a nationwide project to reduce self-harm and suicide among youth in Ireland. |
Alan DeYoung (S**)Professor of Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation Email: ajdey@uky.edu Professor De Young's general interests revolve around the sociology of education and Appalachian Studies. He has written extensively on Appalachian schools in West Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee. Dr. De Young's most recent work focuses upon educational change in post-Soviet central Asia. He recently traveled to the Kyrgyz Republic as a Fulbright Scholar to advise the national Ministry of Education and Culture on school reform policy and lecture at the national pedagogical university on the sociology of education. He is author of Life and Death of a Rural American High School, a work about school consolidation in West Virginia. More... |
Patricia Dyk (S**)Associate Professor, Department of Community and Leadership Development
Professor Dyk's areas of interest focus on social and economic factors affecting the well-being of rural families and communities. Her current work revolves around three major projects. (1) community connections for children. (2) the influence of human and social capital on youth outcomes. (3) Dairy Farm Families. Dr. Dyk regularly teaches SOC 409, The Family (50 students) and GEN 102 (interchangeable with SOC 101), Dynamics of Rural Social Life (60 students). Dr. Dyk's most recent work appears in Adolescent Sexuality, Journal of Early Adolescence, Family Relations, Journal of Youth and Adolescence, Journal of Family Issues, Journal of Adolescent Research, Family Perspective, Family Relations, and Family Science Review. More... |
Lori Garkovich (S**)Professor, Department of Community and Leadership Development
Professor Garkovich's interests include community development, demography, environmental sociology, and extension. Dr. Garkovich regularly teaches GEN 100 (Issues in Contemporary Agriculture), GEN 102 (Dynamics of Rural Social Life), GEN 300 (Leadership Studies), and SOC 260 (Population, Resources and Social Change). Dr. Garkovich's current research is part of a national study of structural changes within the dairy industry. Dr. Garkovich's extension work increasingly focuses on facilitating community planning processes -- community visioning, economic development planning, and land use planning. Dr. Garkovich's most recent work appears in Rural Sociology, Choices, American Journal of Public Health, NACTA Journal, and Research in Rural Sociology and Development. Dr. Garkovich is the author of Harvest of Hope, and Population and Rural Community in America. More... |
Rosalind Harris (S**)Associate Professor, Department of Community & Leadership Development Email: rharris@email.uky.edu Rosalind Harris holds a B.S. in Tropical Agriculture and an M.P.H. in Environmental Health from the University of Hawaii. She holds a Ph.D. in Rural Sociology from the Pennsylvania State University. She has a joint appointment in the Departments of Community and Leadership Development (CLD) and Sociology, is a Faculty Affiliate in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies and is the Director of Graduate Studies for CLD. She offers courses in globalization and global inequality, gender inequality and globalization and research methods. Her scholarship, research and outreach focuses on grassroots organizations and universities that are working in partnership in order to more effectively address persistent poverty and its consequences within the Black Belt South. In this work her scholarship draws heavily upon the emerging fields of public sociology and public scholarship. |
Ronald Hustedde (S**)Professor, Department of Community and Leadership Development Email: ronald.hustedde@uky.edu He has three Master’s degrees in the fields of community development, community economics and rural sociology. His undergraduate degree is in journalism. He served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Central America and in the U.S. Army as a non-commissioned infantry officer. Dr. Hustedde joined the University of Kentucky faculty in 1990. He is an Extension professor in the Department of Community and Leadership Development with a joint appointment in the Sociology Department. Dr. Hustedde’s specialty areas include rural economic development, leadership development, public issues education and public conflict analysis and resolution. His book chapters, peer reviewed articles and other publications are about venture capital markets, leadership, community development theory and practice, community economic analysis, learning communities, and public conflict resolution. Dr. Hustedde is the past president of the Community Development Society. He also serves on the Board of Directors for the International Association for Community Development based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Currently, he is administrator of a $1.28 million leadership grant, the Kentucky Entrepreneurial Coaches Institute. He is also the director of the Kentucky Public Policy Institute which is associated with the National Issues Forums. More... |
Hannah Knudsen (S**)Associate Professor, Department of Behavioral Science Email: hannah.knudsen@uky.edu Dr. Knudsen’s research is focused on the sociology of organizations and work, with an emphasis on substance use disorder treatment organizations and the individuals who work in those settings. More specifically, her research examines the relationships between the external environment and organizational adoption of evidence-based practices, and the implications of organizational culture on employees’ work-related behaviors and mental well-being. She is currently the Principal Investigator of a research project funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) on the impact of the Affordable Care Act on the availability and quality of buprenorphine treatment for opioid use disorders. Her prior studies supported by NIDA and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation have addressed the implementation of smoking cessation services in addiction treatment organizations, the adoption of pharmacotherapies to treat alcohol and opioid use disorders, and the quality of treatment services for adolescents with substance use disorders. In addition to her research, Dr. Knudsen is actively involved in medical education and graduate education, and she regularly teaches methodological courses in Clinical and Translational Science that are housed in UK’s Department of Behavioral Science. She serves as the Associate Director of UK’s T32 institutional training program on drug abuse and behavior. Since 2010, she has served as the Associate Editor of the Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, and she regularly serves as a grant reviewer for the National Institutes of Health (NIH). |
Carl Leukefeld (S**)Professor, Department of Behavioral Science
Dr. Leukefeld is Professor of Behavioral Science, Psychiatry, Oral Health Science and Social Work; and Chair of the Department of Behavioral Science and Director of the Center on Drug and Alcohol Research, with a graduate appointment in Sociology. He came to the University of Kentucky in 1990 to establish the Center on Drug and Alcohol Research from the National Institute on Drug Abuse where he filled administrative and research positions. Dr. Leukefeld has published over 125 articles, chapters, books and monographs. He currently serves on the NIH/NIDA Health Services Initial Review Group and as reviewer and consulting editor for seven journals. His research interests include treatment interventions, outcomes, HIV prevention, criminal justice sanctions, health services, and rural populations. More... |
TK Logan (S**)Professor, Department of Behavioral Science Email: tklogan@uky.edu Dr. Logan is a professor in the Department of Behavioral Science, College of Medicine, and the Center on Drug and Alcohol Research at the University of Kentucky with joint appointments in Psychology, Psychiatry, Sociology, and Social Work. Her research and writings focus on stalking, protective order effectiveness, sexual assault, intimate partner homicide, and health disparities of rural women with partner violence experiences. Dr. Logan has conducted a comprehensive study on the effectiveness of civil protective orders and the costs and cost-benefit of protective orders funded by the National Institute of Justice. Dr. Logan also has been funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to study women’s health, health service use, victimization and substance use. Dr. Logan has also conducted 15 different studies on partner stalking and has some of the most extensive information about stalking in the nation. Dr. Logan is an author on over 125 research articles and serves on the editorial board of two international journals. Dr. Logan is currently the principle investigator on five substance abuse treatment outcome studies. Dr. Logan’s books include: Women and Victimization: Contributing Factors, Interventions, and Implications (American Psychological Association Press) and Partner Stalking: How Women Respond, Cope, and Survive (Springer Publisher). She is a graduate of the Gavin de Becker & Associates Advanced Threat Assessment Academy. Dr. Logan is also involved with a several community boards and national organizations working to prevent violence against women. |
Richard MaurerRetired - Professor, Department of Community and Leadership Development
Professor Maurer's interests include rural and economic development. Dr. Maurer is Assistant Director of the Cooperative Extension Service for Rural and Economic Development Programs. Dr. Maurer currently serves as the University of Kentucky contact for the Kentucky Economic Expansion Program. He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the Kentucky Certified Community Partnership. Dr. Maurer's current projects are generally in the area of rural, community, and economic development, business retention and expansion, community planning, community health, migrant labor. Dr. Maurer's most recent work appears in Journal of the Community Development Society, Family Relations, Journal of Extension, Rural Sociology, Social Science Quarterly, and Journal of Community Development. He has also authored Rural Data, People, and Policy. More... |
Jamie Studts (S**)Associate Professor, Departments of Behavioral Science and Psychology Email: jamie.studts@uky.edu Dr. Studts is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Behavioral Science and Psychology at the University of Kentucky and Assistant Director for Cancer Prevention and Control within the NCI-designated Lucille P. Markey Cancer Center. Dr. Studts is a licensed clinical health psychologist by training, and his clinical and research interests address behavioral aspects of cancer prevention and control with a predominant focus on tobacco-related malignancies. Much of his work involves development and testing of interventions to promote informed and shared decision making and behavior change among patients and healthcare providers regarding prevention, screening, and treatment of lung and head/neck cancer. His current research is funded by the National Cancer Institute, the National Institute for Dental and Craniofacial Research, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences, and the Kentucky Lung Cancer Research Program. Most recently, Dr. Studts and colleagues were awarded a grant from the Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation to support the Kentucky LEADS Collaborative, a project dedicated to reducing the burden of lung cancer in Kentucky through provider education, survivorship care, and implementation of lung cancer screening. Dr. Studts was awarded the C. Tracy Orleans Award for Distinguished Service by the Society of Behavioral Medicine in 2012, the Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award from the Kentucky Psychological Association in 2010, the Mentor Recognition Award from the UK Center for Clinical and Translational Science in 2013, and an Abraham Flexner Master Educator Award for Innovation from the UK Center for Excellence in Medical Education in 2012. |
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