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Emily Douglas is a full professor in the Department of Social Work & Child Advocacy. Douglas joined the Montclair State faculty in fall 2020 coming from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, where she was also a full professor and department head. Her research focuses on the program and policy implications of issues that address child and family well-being, largely in the areas of family violence: fatal child maltreatment, under-represented victims of partner violence and help-seeking, children’s exposure to partner violence, corporal punishment, family disruption, and the connection between research and policy. Dr. Douglas is the author of 65+ peer-reviewed publications, 5 books, and she presents annually at domestic and international conferences. Dr. Douglas has spoken at the State Houses in Maine, Massachusetts, and Connecticut and provided invited testimony before a U.S. Congressional committee focused on children’s maltreatment deaths. In 2016-2017 she was a Congressional fellow in Washington, D.C., dually sponsored by the Society for Research in Child Development and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and Technology; during this time, she held a position in the U.S. Senate where she was the lead author on an investigation concerning for-profit foster care. She currently works with two colleagues as evaluators for the Staffing and Oversight Review Subcommittee for the New Jersey Department of Children and Families. In 2026-2027, she is serving as a senior research fellow with UNICEF's research center, Innocenti, in Florence, Italy. For more information, see: https://www.emilymdouglas.net/.

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