Gershoff, Elizabeth T.
- Associate Professor
- Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1998
- HDFS
- Office: SEA 2.456
- Office Number: 512-471-4800
- Lab: SEA 2.408
- Lab Number: 512-471-4947
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Elizabeth Gershoff earned her PhD in Child Development and Family Relationships at the University of Texas at Austin and received postdoctoral training in preventive interventions at the Arizona State University Prevention Research Center. In her current research, funded by NICHD, NIMH, and the CDC, Dr. Gershoff focuses on the impacts of poverty, community violence, and neighborhoods on child and youth development over time. Her research combines longitudinal and hierarchical methods for understanding the dynamic and multilayered contexts of children's lives. Other areas of research/scholarly interest: school-based violence prevention, the impact of various parenting techniques on child behavior.
