Amanda Harrist

Co-Editor of "Biobehavioral Markers in Risk and Resilience Research"

December 12, 2019

Amanda W. Harrist is a professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Science, focusing on child development. She received her bachelor's degree from the University of Texas and her doctorate at the University of Tennessee in 1991. She joined the OSU HDFS faculty in 1998, where she continues to teach graduate and undergraduate classes in child development, parenting, resilience and research methods. Dr. Harrist has received both the OSU Regents Distinguished Teaching and Research Awards. Her research centers on the development of children’s social competence as it relates to family and peer groups. She is interested in risk and resilience of young school-age children and has pursued this most recently as principle investigator for the Families and Schools for Health Project, a study of the psychosocial factors in childhood obesity that has followed almost 1200 rural children from first through 12th grade.

URL: https://library.okstate.edu/news/celebratingbooks/2020-honorees/amanda-harrist

Last Updated: 15 January 2021