Dr. Rochelle Lené Dalla,

Professor, Department of Child, Youth and Family Studies

College of Education and Human Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln 

Contact Information:

MABL 132, UNL, Lincoln, NE 68588-0236

402.472.6546 (Work) / 402.472.9170 (FAX) rdalla1@unl.edu

Education

Ph.D. 1996  University of Arizona:  Human Development & Family Studies.  Dissertation Title:  American Indian Navajo Adolescent Parenting:  Multiple Perspectives within Context.  Minor:  American Indian Studies

M.S.  1993  University of Arizona:  Human Development & Family Studies. Thesis Title:     Pregnancy and Childbearing: An Exploratory Study of American Indian Navajo Adolescents                

M.S.  2010 University of Nebraska-Omaha:  Community Counseling

B.A.  1991  University of Colorado- Boulder.  Double Major:  Psychology (with Honors) and Cultural Anthropology

Certifications

2015 Certified Family Life Educator (CFLE), National Council on Family Relations, (Certification Number:  9100736).

Faculty Positions

2014 Professor, Child, Youth, & Family Studies, College of Education & Human Sciences, UNL

2002-2013 Associate Professor, Child, Youth, & Family Studies, College of Education & Human Sciences, UNL

1996-2002 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Child, Youth, & Family Studies, College of Education & Human Sciences, UNL            

Academic Associations

1997-2004 Adjunct Faculty Member, Women’s Studies (UNO campus)           

2003  Center for Great Plains Studies Fellow Status Granted

2000  Center for Applied Rural Innovation (CARI) Fellow Status Granted

Previous Employment

1993-1996  University of Arizona, Research & Teaching Associate        

1995-1996 University of Arizona, Extension, Project Coordinator: The Arizona Agenda

1993-1996  University of Arizona, Instructor

1991-1993  University of Arizona, Research & Teaching Assistant

1991-1992 Tucson, Arizona, Parenting Education Coordinator, CPS

Honors & Awards

National:

2015  Best Presentation Award in Behavioral Sciences. Center for Scholastic Inquiry International Academic Research Conference, Charleston, SC.  

2014 The Influential Scholar.  National Research Consortium on Commercial Sexual Exploitation (NRC-CSE).      

 2007 Distinguished Publication Award, Association for Women in Psychology.

University:

2012 Certificate of Recognition for Contribution to Students.  University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Teaching Council and the UNL Parents Association.

 2011  Faculty Leadership for Writing Initiative (FLWI) Leadership Award. University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Faculty Leadership for Writing Initiative.

 College/School:

 2007 Swanson Award for Teaching Excellence, College of Education and Human Sciences, UNL.

 2004 Charman Outstanding Professor Award, College of Education and Human Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

 2004 Award for Young Achievers, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, University of Arizona.

 2003 Award for Young Achievers, School of Family and Consumer Sciences, University of Arizona.

 2003 Distinguished Alumni Award, School of Family and Consumer Sciences, University of Arizona.

 2001 Distinguished Teaching Award, College of Human Resources and Family Sciences, UNL.      

 1995 Mildred Hardin Research Award, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences, University of Arizona 

 1995 Cowden Scholarship for Research, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, University of Arizona

 1994-95  Outstanding Graduate Student, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, University of Arizona

Department:

1994-95 Ruth R. Cowden Scholarship, Human Development & Family Studies, University of Arizona.

1994 Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant, Human Development & Family Studies, University of Arizona.

Publications

Journal Editorships:

Dalla, R. L. (Editor in Chief), Sabella, D., Williamson, C., Choi-Fitzpatrick, & Raghavan, V. (2014-Present).  Journal of Human Trafficking.

Defrain, J., Dalla, R. L., Abbott, J., & Johnson, J.  (Eds.) (2004). Great Plains Research / Special Issue:  New Immigrants in the Great Plains: Strengths and Challenges, 14(2), 163-368.

Books:

Dalla, R. L., & Sabella, D. (Eds.) (In Process). Routledge International Handbook on Human Trafficking:  A Multi-Disciplinary and Applied Approach. Oxfordshire, UK:  Routledge/Taylor & Francis. 

Dalla, R. L., Okeke-Oti, B. A., & Terfa, A. A. (Eds.) (2013), Education in Contemporary Perspectived (Vol. II). Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria:  Fab Anieh Press.

Dalla, R. L., Baker, L. M., DeFrain, J., & Williamson, C. (Eds.) (2011), Global Perspectives on Prostitution and Sex Trafficking:  Africa, Middle East, Asia, & Oceania.  Landham, MD: Lexington Publishers, Inc.

Dalla, R. L., Baker, L. M., DeFrain, J., & Williamson, C. (Eds.) (2011), Global Perspectives on Prostitution and Sex Trafficking: North America, Latin America, Europe, and Global. Landham, MD: Lexington Publishers, Inc.

Dalla, R. L., Okeke-Oti, B. A., & Terfa, A. A. (Eds.) (2011), Education in Contemporary Perspectives (Vol. I).  Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria:  Fab Anieh Press.

Dalla, R. L., DeFrain, J., Johnson, J., & Abbot, D. (Eds.) (2008).  Strengths and Challenges of New Immigrant Families: Implications for Research, Policy, Education, and Service.  Lanham, MD: Lexington Publishers, Inc.

Dalla, R. L. (2006). Exposing the “Pretty Woman” Myth: A Qualitative Investigation of Street-Level Prostituted Women.  Lanham, MD: Lexington Publishers, Inc. 

Journal Articles (In Review or Process):

Dalla, R. L. & Kreimer, L. (In Review).  “After your honor is gone…” Exploration of developmental trajectories and life experiences of women working in Mumbai’s red-light urban brothel districts. Culture & Sexuality.

Taylor, S., Calkins, C. A., Xia, Y., & Dalla, R. L. (In Review).  Adolescent perceptions of dating violence:  A qualitative study.  Journal of Interpersonal Violence.

Dalla, R. L. & Kreimer, L. (In Process).  “For my children I can die.  My life is for them.”…

Journal Articles (Published[1]):  

Dalla, R. L. & Kennedy, H. R. (2015).  “I Want to Leave—Go Far Away…I Don’t Want to Get Stuck on the Reservation”:  Examining Developmental Trajectories and Indicators of Well-Being among the Adolescent-Aged Children of Navajo Native American Teenage Mothers, Journal of Adolescent Research, 30, 113-139.DOI:10.1177/0743558414552322

Kennedy, H. R., & Dalla, R. L. (2014).  Examining Identity Consolidation Processes among Ethnic Minority Gay Men and Women.  Journal of Gay & Lesbian Social Services, 26 (4), 465-501.

Dalla, R. L., Bailey, K., Cunningham, A., Green, N., & Vyhlidal, J. J. (2013). “I’ve devoted my entire life to my daughter—and she knows it.”  Exploration of Identity Development among Now-Adult Navajo Native American Adolescent Mothers.  Identity:  An International Journal of Theory and Research, 13(2), 159-186.   DOI: 10.1080/15283488.2013.776963

Dalla, R. L., Marchietti, A. M., Sechrest, E. A., & White, J. L. (2010).  “All the Men Here Have the Peter Pan Syndrome—They Don’t Want to Grow Up”:  Navajo Adolescent Mothers’ Intimate Partner Relationships...A Fifteen Year Perspective. Violence against Women, 16(7), 743-763.16(5), 579-600. DOI: 10.1177/1077801210374866

Baker, L., Dalla, R. L., & Williamson, C. (2010).  Exiting Prostitution: An Integrative Model.  Violence Against Women, 16(5), 579-600. DOI: 10.1177/1077801210367643

Dalla, R. L., DeLeón, J. G., Stuhmer, T., & Léon, M. (2010).  Rural community longevity:  Capitalizing on diversity for immigrant residential stability. The Business Journal of Hispanic Research, 4(1), 43-55.

Dalla, R. L., Jacobs-Hagen, S. B., Jareske, B. K., & Sukup, J. L.  (2009). Examining the Lives of Navajo Native American Teenage Mothers in Context: A Twelve to Fifteen Year Follow-Up.  Family Relations, 58(2), 148-161. DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3729.2008.00543.x

Abbott, D. & Dalla, R. L. (2008).  “It’s a choice, simple as that”:  Youth Reasoning for Sexual Abstinence or Activity.  Journal of Youth Studies, 11(6), 629-649. DOI: 10.1080/13676260802225751

Dalla, R. L., Huddleston-Casas, C., & León, M. (2008). Investigating Psycho-Social Well-Being among Ethnically Diverse Rural Women:  Expect the Unexpected.  Great Plains Research, 18(2), 143-154.

Siemer, K., & Dalla, R. L. (2007).  Predicting likelihood to use EAPs in small businesses.  Journal of Employee Assistance, 37(3), 13-15.

Dalla, R. L. (2006). “You can’t hustle all your life”: An exploratory investigation of the exit process among street-level prostituted women. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 30, 276-290. DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-6402.2006.00296.x

Dalla, R. L., MoulikGupta, P., Lopez, W., & Jones, V.  (2006). “It’s a balancing act!”: An exploration of the school/work/family interface among rural Nebraska, bilingual para-professional educators. Family Relations (Special Collection: Working with Latino Families in the United States), 55, 390-402. DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3729.2006.00410.

Carter, D. J., & Dalla, R. L. (2006). Application of transactional analysis: Street-level prostituted women as mental health care clients.  Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity, 13(1), 95-119. DOI: 10.1080/10720160600586424

Dalla, R. L., Lopez, W., Jones, V., & Xia, Y.  (2006). Individual and familial stressors among rural Nebraskan, bilingual paraprofessional educators.  Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 5(2), 127-141. DOI: 10.1177/1538192705285

Dalla, R. L., Ellis, A., & Cramer, S. C.  (2005). Immigration & Rural America: Latinos’ perceptions of work and residence in three meat-packing communities.  Community, Work & Family, 8(2), 163-185. DOI:10.1080/1366880050004963

Dalla, R. L., & Christensen, A.  (2005). Latino immigrants describe residence in rural Midwestern meat-packing communities:  A longitudinal assessment of social and economic change.  Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 27(1), 23-42. DOI: 10.1177/0739986304272354

Dalla, R. L., Villarruel, F., Cramer, S., & Gonzalez-Kruger, G. (2004). Rural community change, strengths, and challenges:  Long-term residents describe impacts of rapid immigration.  Great Plains Research / Special Issue– New Immigrants in the Great Plains: Strengths and Challenges, 14 (2), 231-252.

DeFrain, J., Dalla, R. L., Abbott, D. A., & Johnson, J. (2004).  We welcome the new immigrants.  In DeFrain, J., Dalla, R., L., Abbott, D. A., & Johnson, J. (Eds.), Great Plains Research:  A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences, 14(2), 335-346.

Dalla, R. L. (2004). “I fell off [the mothering] track”:  Barriers to ‘effective mothering’ among street-level prostituted women.  Family Relations / Special Issue:  Complexity of Family Life Among Low Income and Working Poor, 53, 190-200. DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-2445.2004.00009.x

Bischoff, R., & Dalla, R. L. (2003). Responding to the need for training in Positive Youth Development: The Great Plains Idea.  Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences, 95(4), 19-22.

Dalla, R. L., Xia, Y., & Kennedy, H.  (2003).  “You just give them what they want and pray they don’t kill you”:  Street-level sex workers’ reports of victimization, personal resources and coping strategies.  Violence Against Women, 9(11), 1367-1394. DOI: 10.1177/1077801203255679

Dalla, R. L. (2003).  When the bough breaks:  Examining intergenerational parent-child relationship patterns among street-level sex-workers & their parents & children.  Applied Developmental Science, 7(4), 216-228. DOI: 10.1207/S1532480XADS0704_1

Dalla, R. L., Cramer, S., & Stanek, K. (2002).  Long-term residents’ and immigrants’ perceptions of economic strain and community issues: Survey results from three rural, meat-packing Nebraska communities.  Rural America, 17(1), 20-25. 

Dalla, R. L. (2002).  Night moves: A qualitative investigation of street-level sex work.  Psychology of Women Quarterly, 26, 63-73. DOI: 10.1111/1471-6402.00044

Dalla, R. L. (2001).  Et tú Brutè?:  A qualitative analysis of streetwalking prostitutes’ interpersonal support networks.  Journal of Family Issues, 22(8), 1066-1085. DOI: 10.1177/019251301022008006

Dalla, R. L. & Gamble, W. C. (2001).  Teenage parenting on the Navajo Reservation: An examination of intergenerational perceptions and beliefs.  American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 25 (1), 1-19.

Dalla, R. L. (2000).  Exposing the ‘pretty woman’ myth: A qualitative investigation of the lives of female streetwalkers.  Journal of Sex Research, 37(4), 344-353. DOI: 10.1080/00224490009552057

Dalla, R. L. & Gamble, W. C. (2000).  Mother, daughter, teenager-- Who am I?: Perceptions of self and the timing of first-time motherhood among Navajo Native-American adolescent women.  Journal of Family Issues, 21(2), 225-245. DOI: 10.1177/019251300021002005

Dalla, R. L., & Gamble, W. C.  (1999). Weaving a tapestry of relational assistance:  A qualitative examination of interpersonal support perceived by teenage parenting women on the Navajo Reservation.  Personal Relationships, 6, 249-265. DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6811.1999.tb00191.x

Dalla, R. L. (1998, Winter).  Higher education and the novice professor: Expect the unexpected.  Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences, 90(4), 18-20.

Gamble, W. C., & Dalla, R. L.  (1997). Young children’s perceptions of their social worlds in single- and two-parent, Euro- & Mexican-American families.  Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 14(3), 355-369. DOI: 10.1177/0265407597143005

Dalla, R. L., & Gamble, W.C.  (1997). Exploring factors related to parenting competence among Navajo teenage mothers:  Dual techniques of inquiry.  Family Relations, 46, 113-121.

Book Chapters (Refereed):

Dalla, R. L. & Kreimer, L. (2015). Sex trafficked women in the Midwestern United States and Mumbai, India:  Worlds apart and strikingly similar. In K. Dombrowski & & Carrasco, K. G. (Eds.), Reducing Health Disparities in the Midwest: Research Updates from the Field.  Amazon Publishing.

Dalla, R. L., DeFrain, J., Johnson, J., & Abbot, D. (2008).  Introduction (pp. 1-6) and Epilogue (pp. 411-425).  In R. L. Dalla, J. Defrain, J. Johnson, and D. Abbott (Eds.), Strengths and Challenges of New Immigrant Families: Implications for Research, Policy, Education, and Service.  Lanham, MD: Lexington Publishers, Inc.

Dalla, R. L., & Gamble, W. C. (2007).  Teenage mothering on the Navajo Reservation: An examination of intergenerational perceptions & beliefs.  In S. J. Ferguson (Ed.) Shifting the center: Understanding contemporary families (3^rd) (pp. 389-404).  New York: McGraw Hill.

Dalla, R. L., & Baugher, S. L.  (2001).  Immigration and the rural Midwest: Current trends and future predictions.  In  R. Moore III (Ed.)  The hidden America: Social problems in rural America in the 21st century (pp. 219-233).   London:  Associated University Press.

Dalla, R. L., & Gamble, W. C.  (1995).  Social networks and systems of support among American Indian Navajo adolescent mothers.  In H. I. McCubbin, E. A. Thompson, & J. E. Fromer (Eds.),  Resiliency in ethnic minority families: Native and immigrant American families  (Vol. 1) (pp. 183-198).  Madison, WI:  The University of Wisconsin System.

Gamble, W. C., & Dalla, R. L.  (1995).  Parenting and child adjustment in single and married, Anglo- and Mexican-American families.  In H. I. McCubbin, E. A. Thompson, & J. E. Fromer (Eds.),  Resiliency in ethnic minority families:  Native and immigrant American families  (Vol. 1) (pp. 343-365).  Madison, WI:  University of Wisconsin.

Book Reviews (Invited):

Dalla, R. L. (2010).  Book Reviewed: Cameron, S. & Newman, E. (Eds.), Trafficking in Human$: Social, Cultural and Political Dimensions.  Hong Kong:  United Nations University Press.  Review published in the Journal of Gender Studies 19(2), 216-217.

Dalla, R. L. (2008).  Book Reviewed: McCloskey, J. (2008).  Living through the generations: Continuity and change in Navajo women’s lives.  Tucson, AZ: The University of Arizona Press.  Review published in Native Studies Review, 17(1), 85-87.

Dalla, R. L. (2003, Winter).  Book Reviewed:   Pipher, M. (2002).  The middle of everywhere: The world’s refugees come to our town.  New York: Harcourt.  Review published in Great Plains Quarterly, 23(1), 61-62.

Dalla, R. L. & Holst, D. J. (2002).  Book Reviewed: D. Cicchetti, J. Rappaport, I. Sandler, & R. P. Weissberg (Eds.) (2000).  The promotion of wellness in children and adolescents. Review published in Family Relations, 51(3), 283.

Programmatic Training Materials:

Dalla, R. L., & Betts, S. C.  (1996). Realizing youth potential together:  A professional development training kit: Description of program, development, field test, and evaluation, University of  Arizona.

Betts, S. C., & Dalla, R. L.   (1996).  Realizing youth potential together:  A professional development training kit.  The Institute for Children, Youth & Families, University of Arizona.

Dalla, R. L., & Betts, S. C.  (1995).  Cultural understanding, adult/youth partnerships, & strategic planning.  Youth, Families, & Community:  The Arizona Agenda (Session III), Evaluation Report.  UA, Cooperative Extension.

Reference & Encyclopedia Contributions:

Dalla, R. L., (2000, Aug.).   Immigrant advantage.  In C. L. Bankston III (Ed.) Racial and Ethnic Relations in America (Vol. II) (p. 501).   Pasadena, CA: Salem Press.

Dalla, R. L., (2000, Aug.).  Patriarchal system. In C. L. Bankston III (Ed.) Racial and Ethnic Relations in America (Vol. II) (p. 756).  Pasadena, CA: Salem Press.

Dalla, R. L., (2000, Jan.). Puberty and adolescence.  In C.L. Bankston III (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Family life, (Ready Reference: Family Life Series), (Vol. IV), (pp. 1093-1102).  Pasadena, CA:  Salem Press.   

Dalla, R. L., (1999, Aug.).  Adolescent ethnic identity development.  In C. L. Bankston III (Ed.) Racial and Ethnic Relations in America (Vol. I) (pp. 12-13). Pasadena, CA: Salem Press.

Dalla, R. L., (1998, Feb.).  Teenager, mother, daughter-- Who am I?: Navajo adolescent mothers’ perceptions of the maternal role and implications for child developmental outcomes.”  Resources in Education, (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED 411-986).

Dalla, R. L., (1997, Aug.).  Native American Navajo teenage parenting women, cross-generational support, and implications for policy.  Resources in Education, (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED 405-998).

Executive Summaries, Proceedings & Abstracts:

Dalla, R. L., Ellis, A., & Cramer, S. C. (2005) Immigration & Rural America..., Community, Work & Family, 8(2), 163-185. Executive Summary of research article (2008, Dec.) published in The Business Journal of Hispanic Research.   

Dalla, R. L., Lopez, W., Jones, V., & Xia, Y.  (2004). An exploratory investigation of individual and familial stressors among rural Nebraskan, bi-lingual paraprofessional educators.  Proceedings publication for the 1^st Annual Working with Latinos/Hispanics in the U.S.A. Conference. 

Cramer, S., Dalla, R. L., Moulikgupta, P., & Kennedy, H.  (2004). Promoting family resiliency through research on Latino immigrants in rural mid-western communities. Family Relations and Human Development/Family Economics and Resource Management Biennial: The Journal of the FRHD and FERM Divisions of the American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences, 5.

Cramer, S. C., Dalla, R. L., Moulikgupta, P., & Kennedy, H. (2002).  Measuring economic strain of Latino immigrant families: Implications for financial counselors and educators. Proceedings of the Association for Financial Counseling and Planning Education (pp. 98-105).

Dalla, R. L.  (1994). Why do they participate?  Adolescent parenting program usage among Navajo Native Americans.  Translating Research into Practice:  Implications for Serving Families with Young Children.  Abstract, National Head Start Research Conference, Washington, D.C. 

[1] All Peer Refereed.