She is also the Ramona Ware Emmons Paul Professor in Early Childhood and the director of the Institute for Building Early Relationships in HDFS at OSU. Dr. Williamson earned her doctorate in Human Development and Family Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She specializes in infant and toddler development and education and her research focuses on the development of caregiver-child relationships in the context of family and early education settings as well as teacher professional development and well-being..