The National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) has conferred its organization’s prestigious Fellow status on Anisa Zvonkovic, Ph.D., Professor and Department head in the Department of Human Development at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, in Blacksburg, VA. She was formerly C.R. Hutcheson Professor of Human Development and Family Studies at Texas Tech University, where she also served as Department Chair.

Professor Zvonkovic received her B.A. in Psychology and Religious Studies from the University of Virginia and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Human Development and Family Studies from the Pennsylvania State University. She has been a leader in scholarship focusing on the effects of work and other demands on individual and interpersonal lives, dyadic issues in personal relationships, closeness and autonomy in interpersonal relationships, and feminist and post-modern perspectives on close relationships. On these topics and others she has published numerous articles included in such journals as theJournal of Marriage and Family, Family Relations, Journal of Family Issues, Marriage and Family Review, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, and the Journal of Divorce and Remarriage. Among her other contributions to the literature in family science are eleven book chapters, and numerous reviews, reports, and papers.

Professor Zvonkovic has been invited to present dozens of papers at professional meetings including the National Council on Family Relations, The Groves Conference on Marriage and Family, Texas Council on Family Relations, American Psychological Association, American Sociological Association, Society for Applied Anthropology, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, International Association of Relationship Research, and the Society for the Study of Human Development. Her research interests have generated more than $1,500,000 in grants.

Professor Zvonkovic has served on the editorial boards of the journal Family Relations, Journal of Family Theory & Review, andJournal of Social and Personal Relationships. Her leadership qualities have been recognized widely by her peers in the family science field. Recently, she began serving a three year elected presidency for the Groves Conference on Marriage and Family. Dr. Zvonkovic's contributions to the National Council on Family Relations are extraordinary. These include Chair of the NCFR Conference Program, 2008; Member and Chair, Felix Berardo Mentoring Award Committee; Member, Reuben Hill Award Committee for Best Theoretical Paper in Family Studies; Member, Task Force on Journal of Family Theory & Review; Chair, Vice-Chair, and Nominations Chair, Section on Feminism and Family Studies; Chair and Executive Committee and Nominations Chair, Theory Construction and Research Methodology Workshop; and NCFR annual meetings abstract reviewer.

The National Council on Family Relations is the nation’s premier professional association for the multidisciplinary understanding of families. NCFR has a membership of more than 3600 family researchers, practitioners and educators.  For more information on the National Council on Family Relations or its scholarly publications, contact NCFR at 1-888-781-9331 or visit its website at www.ncfr.org.