Mary F. DeLuccie

Associate Professor, School of Family Studies and Human Services

Departments & Academic Units:

• Family Studies and Human Services

Contact Info:

211 Hoeflin Stonehouse
(785) 532-3535

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.