Faculty & Staff
Pedro Hernandez, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Charles P. Adams, Rm. 328
hernandezpe@gram.edu
(318) 274-3164
Dr. Hernandez completed his Ph.D. in Human Resources and Family Studies in 1996 at
the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and then in 2006 completed his M.S.W.
degree, specializing in advocacy and policy in social work at the same university.
For the last 20 years, he has been involved in research related to: family dynamics,
family demographics, school demographics, child welfare, juvenile justice, community
development, and geographical information systems (GIS). He has been an NIH Post-Doctoral
Fellow at the Office of Population Research, Princeton University, NJ, as well as
a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the Center for Demography and Ecology and the
Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. From
2003 to 2011, he was an Assistant Research Professor at the Children and Family Research
Center, School of Social Work at the University of Illinois, where he was involved
in an evaluation of the Title IV-E Waiver to improve reunification and other family
permanency and safety outcomes for foster children from drug-involved families.
Before joining GSU, he was the director of Research, Data, and Analytics at the Center
for Community Safety at Winston-Salem State University, NC.
