Dr. Deborah B. Smith teaches courses on Lifespan Development, Families and the Life Course, and Research Methods. Dr. Smith has published scholarly articles on a range of work & family topics including spousal influence on the decision to retire from a career job, Minnesota farm women's labor force participation, and Missouri social service workers' job satisfaction. She has recently been Principal or Co-Investigator for evaluations of three worker training programs and has published the results of these projects in peer-reviewed journals.
She lives in Kansas City, Missouri with her husband.
Ph.D., Human Development and Family Studies, Cornell University, 1996
M.A., Family Social Sciences, University of Minnesota, 1992
B.S., Human Development and Family Studies, Cornell University, 1988