Katherine L. Fiori

Biography

Katherine L. Fiori completed Ph.D., University of Michigan (2006) B.S., Duke University (2000).2015 Nominated for Professor of the Year by the Adelphi’s Student Government Association 2014 Awarded Fellow Status in the Behavioral and Social Sciences Section of the Gerontological Society of America 2013 Nominated for Adelphi’s Teaching Excellence Award (Untenured) 2012 APA International Travel Award 2008 Scholarship Recipient for the 2008 RAND Summer Institute 2007 GSA Behavioral and Social Sciences Section Student Research Award (Dissertation Category) 2006 APA Div. 20 Retirement Research Foundation Completed Research Award, Honorable Mention 2005-2006 AARP Scholars' Program 2005-2006 Daniel Katz Dissertation Fellowship.

Research Interest

Mental and physical health of young, middle-aged, and older adults, especially as a function of social relations and social networks. My research focuses on changes in social relationships and social networks across important life transitions, such as starting college and retirement, as well as on individual differences in the effects of social relations on health (e.g., gender and personality differences). I am also interested in and have conducted research on related issues, such as interpersonal dependency, attachment, emotions, marriage and divorce, religion, and spirituality. I am actively conducting research on many of these topics, using large publicly-available data sets as well as my own longitudinal data collected from over 300 first-year college students. In addition, I collaborate with colleagues in the tri-state area, Germany, the Netherlands, Australia, and New Zealand on a variety of projects focused on social relations and aging.