BRIAN WILCOX, PhD
Director - Center on Children, Families, and the Law
Professor - Department of Psychology
121 S 13, #302
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-0227
(402) 472-3479
Biography
Brian Wilcox is currently Director of the Center on Children, Families, and the Law and Professor of Psychology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he teaches courses on child and adolescent development and public policy. He received his Doctorate in Community Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin. He has published in a number of areas related to child, youth, and family policy, including adolescent sexual behavior and risk-taking, youth violence, child maltreatment, child care, and children and media.
He is currently conducting HIV/AIDS prevention research and is involved in a multi-community positive youth development intervention project in Brazil and is studying teen pregnancy prevention programs in several locations. He is also co-PI for a four-state study of the relationship between state policies and regulations and child care quality. Wilcox served on the Research and Effective Programs Task Force of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, is co-chair of the Society for Research on Adolescents Social Policy Committee, and is president of the American Psychological Association's Division of Child, Youth, and Family Services. Prior to coming to UNL, Wilcox served as Director of Public Policy for the APA, as a legislative assistant to Senator Bill Bradley, and as a member of the psychology faculty at the University of Virginia.
Research Projects
Early Head Start Evaluation
Lincoln Action Program
Role: PI
2003-2004
Midwest Child Care Research Consortium
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
Role: PI
2004
Community Context of Rural and Urban Child Neglect
BRIAN WILCOX, PhD
