Depression

Carrie Hanson-Bradley is director of the Marriage and Family Therapy Program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. As a licensed marriage and family therapist, she specializes in treating individuals, couples and families affected by grief, loss, illness and trauma. She has advanced training in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing and trains student and community clinicians in Narrative Exposure Therapy. Her research centers on individual, family and community-based interventions for those affected by stress, crisis and trauma; using relationships to improve student learning outcomes; and providing evidence-based trauma interventions to underserved populations. She maintains a small private practice and has worked in hospital intensive care units, emergency rooms, and community-based crisis centers. (Updated December 2024.)

Julia McQuillan is a Willa Cather Professor of Sociology as well as the Chair for the Sociology Department. She has done research about the psychosocial dimensions and the health disparities of fertility and infertility in women. McQuillan has also researched the affect that fertility plays on marriage and divorce. She is currently researching about social inequality, with special emphasis on changing structures and practices to increase equity and wellbeing.