Mary F. DeLuccie
Title/Academic Rank:
Associate Professor, School of Family Studies and Human Services
Departments & Academic Units:
Contact Info:
343K Justin Hall
(785) 532-1475
Areas of Specialization:
- Child development
- Early childhood education curriculum
- Administration and advocacy
- Parent education
- Head Start
- Early childhood teacher education
- Parent-child relations particularly father-child interaction
- Distance education
Education:
- B.S. in Vocational Home Economics Education, University of New Mexico (1976)
- M.S. in Family Studies and Child Development, University of New Mexico (1981)
- Ph.D. in Life Span Human Development, Kansas State University (1987)
Short Biography:
I grew up in Scranton Pennsylvania. After matriculating from the University of New Mexico, I taught occupational and vocational home economics in Alamogordo, New Mexico for five years. While completing masters work, I taught food sciences classes at UNM. During doctoral work at KSU, I worked in the dean’s office and as a head teacher in the child care programs. After completing doctoral study, I was an assistant professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies (1987-1991). I am married and have two young sons.