Stephen Gavazzi

Expertise

• Land Grant universities and their impact on tribal communities
• Campus-community relationships
• Impact of family dynamics on adolescent development, psychopathology and problem behavior

Professor Gavazzi has established a research program that identifies the impact of family dynamics on adolescent development, psychopathology, and problem behavior. He is the author of the textbook Families with Adolescents: Bridging the Gaps Between Theory, Research, and Practice. Dr. Gavazzi also is known for his work on a variety of higher education issues. His book Land-Grant Universities for the Future: Higher Education for the Public Good (co-authored with E. Gordon Gee) was published in 2018 by Johns Hopkins University Press. Gavazzi and Gee also are co-authors of the book What’s Public About Public Higher Ed? Halting Higher Education’s Decline in the Court of Public Opinion that was published in October 2021 by Johns Hopkins University Press. Professor Gavazzi also co-edited (with David Staley) the book Fulfilling the 21st Century Land-Grant Mission that was published in 2020 by The Ohio State University Press.