Instructor SOCW 580 - Winter 2012
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Karl G. Hill, Ph.D., is the Principal Investigator on a study entitled The SSDP Intergenerational Project, (TIP), a study examining continuity and discontinuity in drug use across generations. In addition, he has been the Project Director, Co-Investigator and Principal Investigator of the Seattle Social Development Project, (SSDP) for the last sixteen years (at the Social Development Research Group), and is a Research Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Washington.
After college, he taught science (biology, chemistry, math, etc.) in the Congo (then Zaïre), and worked at Institut Supérieur Pédagogique in Bukavu, Kivu. Returning to the U.S., he earned his Ph.D. in Social-Developmental Psychology from Brandeis University (1991), and taught psychology at Wellesley College for six years.
Research. Currently, work on the SSDP Intergenerational Project is
supported
by a grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) entitled Linking Parent Drug Use and Child
Development Across Three Generations (5R01DA023089-03). Karl also directs a study
supported by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism entitled Understanding Alcohol Misuse, Abuse and
Dependence in Young Adulthood (5R01AA016960-02).
In addition, Karl the principal investigator on a study to add a genetic assessment
to the SSDP longitudinal panel, and to examine gene-environment interplay in the
development of tobacco and alcohol dependence (Social and Genetic Factors in the
Development of Tobacco and Alcohol Dependence, 5R01DA024411-02). This study is being
implemented with a multidisciplinary collaborative team from the University of Minnesota
(Drs. Matt McGue, William Iacono, Margaret Keyes and Michael Miller), the UW Department
of Biostatistics (Dr. Timothy Thornton), the UW Department of Bioethics and Humanities
(Dr. Malia Fullerton), and consultants Laura Bierut (Washingtion University, St. Louis)
and Jenae Neiderhiser (Penn State).
Throughout his career, he has worked primarily to determine the optimal conditions for
development taking broad social-developmental, life-span approach.
Finally, but not least, he is really excited about teaching the course in quantitative research methods in the doctoral program at UW!
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Karl G. Hill, Ph.D. 9725 3rd Ave. NE Suite 401 Social Development Research Group School of Social Work, University of Washington Seattle, Washington 98115 ph: 206.685.3859 email: khill@uw.edu A partial listing of publications can be obtained here: PubMed listing of Publications |  |