Speakers and Panelists :: Hiram E. Fitzgerald
Hiram E. Fitzgerald is assistant provost for university outreach and engagement and university distinguished professor of psychology at Michigan State University. Currently, Fitzgerald serves on two national committees. He is chairperson of the Committee on Engagement, which is part of a multi-university Committee on Institutional Cooperation. He is also a member of the Council on Extension, Continuing Education, and Public Service Task Force on Engagement. Fitzgerald is co-director of the Michigan Longitudinal Study of Family Risk for Alcoholism over the Life Course (now in its 18th year), and is principal investigator of the Michigan local site component of the 17-site national evaluation of Early Head Start (now in its eighth year). He is also a member of a variety of interdisciplinary research teams focusing on evaluation of community-based prevention programs. His major areas of research include the study of infant and family development in community contexts, the impact of fathers on early child development, implementation of systemic models of organizational process and change, the etiology of alcoholism, and broad issues related to the scholarship of engagement. Since 1992, Fitzgerald has also served as the executive director of the World Association for Infant Mental Health. Fitzgerald holds a Ph.D. in experimental child psychology (1967) from the University of Denver.