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Senate Faculty
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Joseph L. Mahoney
Associate Professor
Department of Education
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Biography
Joseph L. Mahoney earned his B.S. from the Institute of Child Development at the University of Minnesota in 1993 and his Ph.D. in developmental psychology from the Center for Developmental Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1997.
Dr. Mahoney completed post-doctoral training from the Psychological Institute at Stockholm University in 1999. Prior to joining the faculty at UCI, Mahoney was an Associate Professor of Psychology at Yale University from 1999-2007 where he directed the Yale Study of Children's After-school Time, the Social Policy and Intervention Laboratory (with E. Zigler), and was a faculty member at the Edward Zigler Center for Social Policy and Child Development.
Dr. Mahoney is a recipient of the Public Policy Award from the Smith Richardson Foundation, a past member of the National Academy of Science's Committee on Family and Work Policies, and co-authored the resulting volume Working Families and Growing Kids (2003). He was the main editor of the volume Organized Activities as Contexts of Development (with R. Larson and J. Eccles) released in 2005, and has served on the National Advisory Board for the Horizons National summer enrichment program since 1999. He also currently serves on the Editorial Boards for the Journal of Research on Adolescence and Applied Developmental Science and is a Guest Editor for the American Journal of Community Psychology (with J. Durlak and A. Bohnert). In 2007, Prof. Mahoney was appointed to the Society in Research for Child Development's Governing Council's Committee on Policy and Communications.
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