Faculty and staff

• International Community Development
• Global Citizenship and Leadership
• Mixed Methodologies and Participatory, Community-based Research
• Refugee and Immigrant Studies

• Mental health
• High risk families
• Substance abuse
• Complex trauma

Tanja Burkhard
Assistant Professor
tanja.burkhard@wsu.edu
360-546-9615
McClaskey Building, Room 227

• Family diversity
• Immigration, language/literacy and racialization
• Qualitative methodologies
• Feminist approaches

• Social justice
• Narratives of Us versus Them
• Decolonizing ways of being and knowing
• Autoethnography

• Childhood obesity prevention
• Child feeding practices
• Young children’s health knowledge
• Effect of new technologies and media
• Systems for supporting quality child care
• Support for military families

• Administrative Support
• Fiscal Management

• Advisor
• Internship Coordinator
• H_D 497 & 498 Instructor

Samantha Reisz
Scholarly Assistant Professor
samantha.reisz@wsu.edu
360-546-9665
McClaskey Building, Room 220

• Infant Mental Health
• Attachment theory
• Parent-child relationships
• Transition to parenthood

• Child welfare system
• Aging out of foster care
• Postsecondary access and retention of youth in foster care
• Developing, adapting, and testing interventions
• Program evaluation; Maltreatment, trauma, and PTSD
• LGBTQ youth well-being
• International approaches to child welfare services

• Family relationships
• Rural family poverty
• Family health promotion in rural settings

• Women’s evidence-based decision making in birth and birth care
• Integrative health approaches in treating perinatal concerns
• Mixed methods research approaches

• The development of healthy emotional and physiological regulation in early life with a focus on the role of the parent-child attachment relationship as a protective and socializing influence.