Dr. Alan J. Hawkins is a professor of family life at Brigham Young University. He earned a Ph.D. in Human Development and Family Studies at The Pennsylvania State University in 1990. Professor Hawkins’ has taught and conducted research and outreach at Brigham Young University since 1990. In 2003-2004, Dr. Hawkins was a visiting scholar with the Administration for Children and Families (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services), working on the federal Healthy Marriage Initiative. He was the Research Director of the National Healthy Marriage Resource Center from 2004-2006. He was the Chair of the Utah Marriage Commission from 2008-2010. He is a member of the Research Advisory Group of the Oklahoma Healthy Marriage Initiative. Dr. Hawkins’ scholarship and outreach focuses on educational and policy interventions to help couples form and sustain healthy relationships and enduring marriages. He is widely cited for his work that examines the overall effectiveness of marriage and relationship education.