Community Chairs
The community chairs reflect the strengths of each University of Nebraska campus related to early learning and development. In addition to fulfilling the traditional faculty roles of teaching, research, and service, community chairs provide campus leadership and are responsive to the local community.
Efforts are underway to recruit and appoint community chairs at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and University of Nebraska at Omaha.
Julia Torquati
Community Chair in Infant and Child Mental Health, University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Torquati is a professor in the Department of Child, Youth and Family Studies in the College of Education and Human Sciences at UNL. As the inaugural recipient of the Community Chair in Infant and Child Mental Health, she contributes expertise in the areas of infant and child mental health and socio-emotional development, and she helps educate families and other care providers to support mental and emotional development in young children.
Torquati serves as the principal investigator of RESPECT Across Nebraska, a collaboration among multiple institutions and communities dedicated to strengthening the state’s early childhood workforce.
Past Community Chairs
Kathleen Gallagher
Cille and Ron Williams Community Chair for Early Childhood Education, UNK, 2016–17
David Dzewaltowski
Community Chair in Activity, Nutrition, and Obesity Prevention, UNMC, 2018–21
Susan Catapano
Cille and Ron Williams Community Chair for Early Childhood Education, UNK, 2019–20
Marisa Macy
Cille and Ron Williams Community Chair for Early Childhood Education, UNK, 2022–24
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