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Dr. Julia A. Graber is a tenured professor of Psychology at the University of Florida. She conducts research on the development of psychopathology during adolescence as well as other related areas.

Education
Dr. Graber received her M.S. (1988) and Ph.D. degrees (1991) from Penn State University in Developmental Psychology and her B.S. degree in Psychology in 1984 from Michigan State University.

Career
Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Florida, Graber worked with the National Center for Children and Families at Columbia University. She worked on a project concerning children entering puberty and by utilizing home visit data collection, interviews with parents, and longitudinal data, she was able to study how development changed as puberty progressed and how it affected familial relationships. This led to increased discoveries in how developing faster than their peers can affect children. She has worked with Dr. Anne Petersen and Dr. Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, both notable developmental psychologists involved in multi-disciplinary research.

She also collaborated on projects at Cornell Medical. She worked with a program focused on prevention programming for substance use in the middle school years and later expanded that to aggressive and violent behavior.

She worked on a collaborative project studying depression and other disorders during which she was able to acquire data and assessments around puberty and look at patterns from the high school years to the 20s in order to study the lasting effects. It has been found that there are potentially biological and lasting effects which make people who have suffered from depression more vulnerable to subsequent problems and challenges. Studies such as this one are conducted in order to figure out how to provide more support and prevention for these problems. After this project was completed, many others became interested in the subject and subsequent research has been done on what factors could be preventative and what puts people at a higher risk of depression.

Graber is currently a tenured Psychology professor at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. She is also currently serving as the Interim Chair of the Department of Psychology at UF. Her research as well as most of her published works and conference presentations utilize graduate students, early-career scientists, and undergraduate students. One of her current projects is the iMAD Health Education Program which is through the Heartland Rural Health Network. She is the director of The Adolescent Social Development Lab. Her research is concerned with bio-psychosocial processes that occur throughout puberty and how they can contribute to the onset of depression and aggression (funded by NICHD and NIMH).

Administrative Appointments


 * Interim Chair of the Department of Psychology at the University of Florida (2017-2018)
 * Graduate Coordinator of the Department of Psychology at the University of Florida (2013-2017)
 * Associate Chair of the Department of Psychology at the University of Florida (2007-2013)
 * Developmental Area Director of the Department of Psychology at the University of Florida (2007-2016)


 * Associate Director of the National Center for Children &amp;amp; Families (NCCF), Teachers College, Columbia University (1994-2001)
 * Founding Director of Graduate Training of the NCCF, Teachers College, Columbia University (1993-2001)

Positions

2017-2018


 * Colonel Allen R. and Margaret G. Crow Term Professor

2010-


 * Professor, Department of Psychology, UF.
 * Affiliate Faculty member, 2010-present, African American Studies Program.
 * Affiliate Faculty member, 2014-present, Institute for Child Health Policy

2003-2010


 * Associate Professor with tenure, Department of Psychology, UF.
 * Affiliate Faculty member, 2007-2009, Department of Educational Psychology, UF.

2001-2003


 * Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, UF.

1992-2001


 * Sr. Research Scientist, Teachers College, Columbia University.
 * Adjunct Associate Professor, (1999-2000) Division of Sociomedical Sciences, School of Public Health, Columbia University


 * Adjunct Associate Professor, (1997-2001) Adjunct Assistant Professor, (1992-1994), Department of Human Development, Teachers College, Columbia University.

1991-1992


 * Postdoctoral Fellow, Research Division, Educational Testing Services

1990-1991


 * Data Manager, Adolescent Mental Health Study &amp;amp; Penn State Adolescence Study

Select Publications

Graber has over 50 peer-reviewed publications, over 30 chapters, an edited volume, and 28 national and

international invited talks, and over 120 presentations.