Kristina P. Brant , Ph.D.

Kristina Brant is a sociologist interested in the family and community dimensions of substance use. Her research concerns topics such as institutional responses to parental substance use disorder, family dynamics amid kinship care, and community understandings of addiction and recovery. She uses qualitative methods, including ethnography and in-depth interviewing, to examine these issues in rural U.S. communities, particularly rural Appalachia. In her Extension work, she put this research into practice through community-based programming in rural Pennsylvanian communities. She has also conducted collaborative research on immigration policy and social support networks.