Amanda Harrist

Editor of "Biobehavioral Markers in Risk and Resilience Research"

January 15, 2021

Amanda Harrist is a Professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Science and an Associate Director for Translation & Education at OSU’s Center for Family Resilience. She received her B.A. from the University of Texas and her Ph.D. at University of Tennessee in 1991. She joined the OSU HDFS faculty in 1998, where she teaches 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 Principal Investigator for the Families and Schools for Health Project, a study of the psychosocial factors in child obesity that has followed almost 1200 rural children from 1st through 12th grade.

URL: https://library.okstate.edu/news/celebratingbooks/2021-honorees/amanda-harrist

Last Updated: 22 February 2021