Samantha Tornello
Assistant Professor of Health and Human Development and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Professional Bio
Samantha Tornello is Ann Atherton Hertzler Early Career Professor in Health and Human Development and Assistant Professor of Human Development and Family Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Tornello's research interests are sexual/gender minority parents; pathways to parenthood; couple dynamics and family functioning; division of labor; children’s development; and stigma and discrimination. Her specializations are: determinants and promotion of well-being; family systems and processes; gender and development; health and family processes; parenting, parent-child relations, and child outcomes; work and family; and adulthood and aging.