Bio
Dr. Glenda Kaufman Kantor is a sociologist and Research Associate
Professor at the Family Research Laboratory, the Department of Sociology,
and the Center for Research on Crimes Against Children at the University of
New Hampshire, where she is also Co-Director of the Family Research Laboratory
National Institute of Mental Health Family Violence Post-Doctoral Research
Fellowship Program. She has written and edited several books and monographs,
and published or presented over seventy papers. Her major interests are related
to the assessment and prevention of maladaptive risk behaviors, the etiology
and prevention of intimate violence, the linkages between substance abuse
and family violence, and child neglect and structural and cultural influences
on wife abuse. She has conducted several national family violence and or substance
abuse related research studies in the United States including current and
recent federally funded studies on the causes and assessment of child neglect
in community and clinical samples; a national bi-lingual study of family violence
and substance abuse, a randomized clinical trials study on parental substance
abuse, child maltreatment, and child protective service interventions; an
evaluation of a multi-systems state collaboration on responses to the co-occurrence
of domestic violence and child abuse, and an international evaluation of U.S.
Air Force family violence prevention initiatives, including the development
of a measure to screen risks for spousal and child abuse among new parents
that is now being used by the U.S. Department of Defense to target the provision
of services.
Click here for curriculum vitae/resume (PDF).