Kelly, Robert F., (Ph.D., Rutgers) is Professor of Sociology
and Co-Director of the Social Science Empirical Analysis Lab at Le
Moyne. Kelly is also co-principal investigator of the Le Moyne College/Zogby
International Contemporary Catholic Trends Poll. From 1995 to 1998
he held the College's Francis J. Fallon, S.J. Endowed Professorship.
He has conducted research and written widely on public welfare policy,
family law and research methodology. His writings have appeared in
journals such as the Family Law Quarterly, Journal of Marriage
and the Family, The University of Southern California Interdisciplinary
Law Journal, the Syracuse University Law Review, and the
Journal of Family Issues. Current research projects concern
changing legal definitions of family relations, the use of social
science research in family law formation, and the consequences of
the legal outcomes of divorce for post-divorce family functioning
and child well-being. Kelly has held visiting appointments and research
positions at the Stanford Law School, the Graduate School of Education
and Human Development at the University of Rochester, the Syracuse
University College of Law and the Institute of Policy Sciences at
Duke University. In 1993, Kelly was the first William and Flora Hewlett
Scholar in Washington at Child Trends, Inc., a public policy research
center in the nation's capital. He teaches marriage and the family,
law and social science, demography and research methodology.
Office: 414 Reilly Hall, x4481
E-mail Kellyrf@mail.lemoyne.edu
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