Margaret Nellis, Ph.D.
Associate Faculty
Room 340, Schreiner Hall
115 North Orchard Street
University Health Services
(608) 265-4902
mjnellis@uhs.wisc.edu
Dr. Margaret Nellis received her A.B. from Mount Holyoke College, M.S. from Johns Hopkins University, and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. She jointly holds an appointment as an Associate Faculty member in the School of Human Ecology and a position as manager of Academic Partnerships for University Health Services. Her doctoral studies in applied behavior analysis of cigarette smoking and heroin use led to a postdoctoral fellowship in the experimental study of human behavior in a residential laboratory at the John Hopkins University school of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Biology. Margaret taught psychology full-time for the European Division of the University of Maryland and worked in community health education at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, University Health Center and held appointments in the Departments of Psychology and Health Education.
Currently, she serves on the Family Voices team to engage, network, and empower African American families in the neighborhoods of South Madison so that family perspectives are incorporated in larger community building efforts in the area through a university-community partnership approach.
Her interests/projects include:
- Developing interdisciplinary models and practice in teaching, research, and service
- Connecting key health and community development issues to the academic work of the university
- Partnering with faculty development initiatives on campus to identify educational policies and practices that promote student health and learning
- Promoting a healthy learning environment on campus through the design and use of spaces that are restorative and spaces that promote interaction, participation, and a sense of place.
Courses taught by Margaret Nellis include:
Inter-HE 111 Alcohol: Behavior, Culture, and Science
Inter-HE 450 Capstone Seminar
ILS 199 Community and the Individual: Ways of Knowing in Integrated Liberated Studies
CounPsy 105 Health, Community, and Action in Counseling Psychology
