Families

Cody Hollist directs the Marriage and Family Therapy program, which has established the Coming Together for Wellness website to provide support to families and others who may not have access to therapy and other resources during the COVID-19 pandemic. As a member and chaplain for the Air National Guard, Hollist also helped military members and their families cope with trauma. He was also recently awarded a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to study Brazil’s suicide epidemic. Hollist’s research focuses on Latino adolescent mental health issues and Latino family resilience.

Richard Bischoff has been a faculty member since 1998. He is interested in increasing access to high-quality mental health care, especially among vulnerable and underserved populations. His current projects are designed to do that by marshaling local resources to better meet the mental health care needs of communities and delivering high-quality mental health care services through videoconferencing.

Dr. Jordan Soliz is a professor who studies communication and intergroup processes primarily in family and personal relationships. Current projects focus on communication in multiethnic-racial families, interfaith families, and grandparent-grandchild relationships with a goal toward understanding communicative dynamics associated with individual well-being and relational-family solidarity. He also investigates processes and outcomes of intergroup contact and intergroup dialogue as well as communication processes that minimize outgroup attitudes (e.g., ageism) and/or buffer effects of discrimination.

Brenden Timpe, an assistant professor ofeconomics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, studies the links between public policy, the labor market and family structure and behavior. Labor economics, public economics and economic demographics are his specialty areas. His work has appeared in Science, the American Economic Review, the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics and the Journal of Health and Social Behavior. Recent articles include “When Sarah Meets Lawrence: The Effects of Coeducation on Women’s College Major Choices” (American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, forthcoming); “Prep School for Poor Kids: The Long-Run Impact of Head Start on Human Capital and Economic Self-Sufficiency (American Economic Review, December 2021); “The Long-Run Effects of America’s First Paid Maternity Leave Policy” (in progress.)”