Hillary Fouts, Ph.D., Department of Child and Family Studies, University of Tennessee, studies cross-cultural social and emotional development in infancy and early childhood as well as children’s interactions and relationships with their caregivers. Current research projects are on the cultural, biological and ecological contexts of early child development among hunter-gatherers; the nature of parent-child conflicts, especially during transitions in the compositions of families; and the effects of socioeconomic status on early infant care and development, by disentangling socioeconomic status from ethnicity.

Abbie E. Goldberg, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, Clark University, teaches courses on gender and family, ethics, and developmental psychopathology. Research interests include a variety of contexts (e.g., gender, sexual orientation, social class, work-family variables) that shape processes of development and mental health, exploring parenthood, relationship quality, and well-being in diverse families (e.g., adoptive parent families, lesbian/gay parent families) in an effort to increase our understanding of family diversity. She is currently exploring the transition to adoptive parenthood among a diverse group of couples.

Tyree Guyton, painter and sculptor, is an urban environmental artist. As creator of The Heidelberg Project, “He has waged a personal war on urban blight on Detroit's East Side, transforming first a street in his neighborhood, and then two city blocks into a living indoor/outdoor art gallery by using discarded objects he found to embellish abandoned houses, sidewalks and empty lots.” Guyton's paintings and sculptures have been shown at the Detroit Institute of Arts, which also acquired two of his works, and galleries in Michigan and New York.