Julia Shadur, Ph.D.

Dr. Julia Shadur is an Assistant Professor of Childhood Studies in the School of Integrative Studies and in Human Development and Family Science at George Mason University. She is also an Affiliate Faculty member in the Department of Psychology at George Mason. She earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2013. Dr. Shadur’s program of research focuses on the intergenerational transmission of addiction and emotion dysregulation, and examines both basic and prevention research questions regarding the development of emotion regulation among young children with caregivers who have substance use disorders. Her research is grounded within the frameworks of developmental psychopathology and developmental science, and her work explores the multifaceted factors that impact emotion regulation and risk-taking behaviors across development. She focuses on the contextual, family, and parenting factors that impact young children with caregivers with substance use disorders. She has over 22 peer reviewed publications and book chapters, 37 scientific conference presentations as well as numerous invited talks. Her work has been funded by NIH and she received a Faculty Research Development Award at George Mason (2019-2020).