Ana Lopez-DeFede, Ph.D. Research Associate Professor

Institute of Families in Society, USC Columbia

adefede@sc.edu

 Research Interests:

   ▪Transnational Patterns and their Impact on Communities

   ▪Diversity and Cultural Parallelism: Caribbean Immigrants

   ▪Health Status and Immigrant Communities

Claire M. Roof, Ph.D. Student

Department of Psychology, USC Columbia

roofcm@gwm.sc.edu

  Research Interests:
  • School Psychology

  • School-based academic intervention programs for Latino elementary school students
  • Parent-school involvement for Latino elementary school students
  • Curriculum-Based Assessment with Latino students
  • English for Speakers of Other Language program development

  • Bilingual Assessment and Instruction

Suzanne Swan, Ph.D.
Departments of Psychology and Women’s Studies, USC Columbia
swansc@gwm.sc.edu

  Research Interests:
  • Gender issues

  • Women and depression

  • Intimate partner violence