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6 win NCFR's prestigious Fellow status

January 17, 2013

Minneapolis, MN – The National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) has conferred its organization’s prestigious Fellow status to six members.

Fellow status in NCFR is an honor awarded to relatively few living members of NCFR (3 percent or fewer) who have made outstanding and enduring contributions to the field of the family in the areas of scholarship, teaching, outreach or professional service, including service to NCFR.

Please click on each linked name below to read more about the awardee.

Those awarded Fellow status this year are:

  • Norma J. Bond Burgess, the current and founding dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee. Dr. Burgess is a former NCFR Board member, and an editorial reviewer in the journals Gender and Society, Journal of Family Issues, Family Relations andSociological Inquiry. She has been the recipient of numerous institutional and national awards, and her scholarship has been widely published.
  • Joseph Grzywacz, Ph.D., the George Kaiser Family Foundation Endowed Chair of Family Resilience at Oklahoma State University. Professor Grzywacz has published in many journals pertaining to families: Family Issues, Journal of Marriage and Family, Family Relations, American Journal of Health Promotion, and the American Journal of Public Health.His area of expertise as an interdisciplinary social scientist in health, family and work is well known nationally and internationally.
  • Thomas Holman, Ph.D., professor in the School of Family Life at Brigham Young University. Awarding of Fellow status recognizes Dr. Holman for his sustained and groundbreaking research on how characteristics of relationships before marriage predict the subsequent success of marital relationships.
  • Sandra M. Stith, Ph.D, LMFT, professor in the School of Family Studies and Human Services at Kansas State University. Dr. Stith’s area of expertise is family violence and the treatment of intimate partner violence (IPV).  Her name is connected with numerous articles in several journals including the American Journal of Family Therapy, Contemporary Family Therapy, Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, Family Science Review, Family Relations, Journal of Family Psychotherapy and Journal of Marriage and the Family.
  • Judith Treas, Ph.D., professor of sociology at University of California, Irvine. Dr. Treas is considered among the most prominent experts in the field of family studies. She is a recognized authority in several areas, including, the division of household labor, intergenerational relationships and aging families. She brings to this work a cross-national perspective that shows how couples’ domestic lives are shaped by the broader context in which they live. Dr. Treas has authored more than 60 scholarly articles and book chapters.
  • Anisa Zvonkovic, Ph.D., professor and department head in the Department of Human Development at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, in Blacksburg, Virginia. 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, and has published numerous articles on the topics. 

Visit NCFR's Fellows webpage to learn more about Fellow status.

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 3,600 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.

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