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Faculty,
Childhood Studies Department
 Charles
Watters, PhD, Professor and Department Chair. His research interests focus on the impact of migration
and globalization on children and encompasses areas such as asylum
seeking and refugee children, health and well-being, identity
and education. His interests include international work on the
phenomenon of street children and on the causes and consequences
of the forced migration of children. His research includes a comparative
study into the mental health and social care of refugees in four
European countries on behalf of European Commission, and studies
of reception arrangements for unaccompanied asylum seekers in
Europe. His work also includes a major study under the ESRC Identities
and Social Action Program into the impact of the immigration process
on children's identities. His international activities include
teaching and research collaborations with universities across
the globe. He is Visiting Professor at the University of Brasilia,
where he is developing a research programme on internal migration
and mental health. He has acted as an international expert to
a range of initiatives on migration including acting as a Scientific
Advisor to the Portuguese Presidency of the European Union and
international advisor to the Nordic Research Group on Refugee
Children. He is the Founding Editor of the International Journal
of Migration, Health and Social Care. His publications
include the 2008 book Refugee
Children: Towards the Next Horizon. Routledge.
c.watters@rutgers.edu -- 856-225-6299
 Dr.
Daniel T. Cook,
is Director of the Graduate Studies Program, Associate Professor of
Childhood Studies, adjunct in Sociology and an Associate in the
Center for Children and Childhood Studies. He is author of The
Commodification of Childhood: The Children's Clothing Industry and
the Rise of the Child Consumer and Children's Consumer Culture (2004,
Duke), editor of Symbolic Childhood (2002, Peter Lang) and
of The
Lived Experiences of Public Consumption (2008, Palgrave). Dr.
Cook also serves as Editor for Childhood: A Journal of Global
Child Research (Sage).
Dr. Cook received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in Sociology.
dtcook@camden.rutgers.edu ---
856-225-2816
 Dr.
Daniel Hart (B.A.,
Bates College; Ed.D., Harvard), Distinguished
Professor of Psychology and Director of the Center
for Children and Childhood Studies, tries to understand what the
components of personality are, the ways in which personality influences
successful adjustment to different social contexts, and how the
components of personality are acquired over the course of development.
He has written or edited six books,
including Hart, Atkins, & Fegley, Personality and development
in childhood: A person-centered approach, Colby & Hart, Character
and Competence: Developmental Pathways and Killen & Hart, Morality
in everyday life: Developmental Perspectives.
daniel.hart@rutgers.edu --- (856)
225-6741
 Dr.
Lynne Vallone is Professor of Childhood Studies and teaches in
the English Department and is an Associate in the Center for Children
and Childhood Studies. She is the author of Disciplines
of Virtue: Girls’ Culture in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth
Centuries (1995, Yale) and Becoming Victoria (2001,
Yale; a cultural biography of the young Queen Victoria) and the
co-editor of The Norton Anthology of Children’s Literature (2005,
Norton), Virtual Gender: Fantasies of Subjectivity and Embodiment,
and The Girl’s Own: Cultural Histories of the Anglo-American
Girl, 1830-1915. Dr. Vallone’s research and teaching
interests include children’s literature and culture, the
visual and material cultures of childhood and girlhood, and the
Victorian Age.
Dr. Vallone received her Ph.D. from SUNY Buffalo and joined Rutgers
from Texas A&M University in College Station, TX.
vallone@rutgers.edu ---
856-225-2802
 Robert
Atkins, PhD is Associate Professor of Nursing and
Childhood Studies at Rutgers-Camden (BA, Brown University; BSN,
University of Pennsylvania; MSN, Rutgers University; PhD, Temple
University).
Dr. Atkins’s
research addresses theory and practice for improving the life chances
of children and youth living in high-poverty, urban neighborhoods.
It illuminates the effects of neighborhoods and poverty
on the health and development of children and adolescents. This
interest grows from his experiences in the city of Camden as a school
nurse, the director of a public health initiative, and as the co-founder
of a youth development program (see http://children.camden.rutgers.edu/STARR/index.htm).
robert.atkins@rutgers.edu ---
(856) 225-6483
 Susan
A. Miller, PhD (BA, University of Pennsylvania; MS, UPenn
Graduate School of Education; MA, Women's Studies, University
of York, England; PhD in History & Sociology of Science,
University of Pennsylvania), joined the Rutgers-Camden Department
of Childhood Studies in September 2009.
She is the author of Growing
Girls: The Natural Origins of Girls' Organizations in America (Rutgers,
2007) and a contributor to Scouting Frontiers: Youth and the
Scout Movement's First Century (Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2009) Dr. Miller's research and teaching interests include athletics
and physical culture, science and sexuality, and Progressive Era
youth culture and organizations. She is a former high school mathematics
and history teacher.
millersa@camden.rutgers.edu --- (856) 225-2353
 Lauren
J. Silver, PhD (BA,
Washington University in St. Louis; MS and PhD, University of Pennsylvania) joined
the Rutgers-Camden Department of Childhood Studies in 2009 after
completing a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center on Urban Research
and Public Policy and the program in American Culture Studies at Washington
University in St. Louis. Her research and teaching interests focus
on life trajectories of urban youth, comparative education and ethnography
methods.
ljsilver@camden.rutgers.edu --- (856)
225-2354
Robin Stevens, PhD (B.A.,Harvard College, MPH, University of Michigan School of Public Health, and PhD, the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania) utilizes media and technology to improve health outcomes among minority youth. She has a decade of experience conducting research on adolescent health and sexuality. And has extensive experience in behavioral theory, survey development, quantitative statistical methods, and evaluation. Dr. Stevens has presented her research nationally and internationally.
robin.stevens@rutgers.edu --- (856) 225-6083
Associate Faculty in Childhood Studies
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Research
Interests |
(Click
on the faculty's name for biographical information)
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Children's
literature, creative writing, poetry, essays |
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European
women's history; Adoption law, foster care, and custody battles
and dependent children in Soviet Russia |
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19th/20th
Cent. American Literature, Children's Literature, Meanings that
children create from literature |
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Chronically
Ill and Dying Children; Medical Decision Making |
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The
politics of culture, nationalism, educational anthropology,
West African adolescents in Philadelphia |
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Midwives
and medicalization on a Guatemalan plantation; Health of Migrant
Children in Southern NJ |
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Human
development: spatial perception and quantitative reasoning,
cognitive and social processes in cultural context, and the
development of memory |
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Caregivers of developmentally vulnerable infants and young children; Developmental disabilities |
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Medical
History, Women's History, Children's History |
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Creative
writing, narrative nonfiction, and English literature |
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Health
Psychology, Psychology of Eating-Related Behaviors, Psychology
of Adolescence, and Child Development |
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Psychopathology
in children and adolescents |
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Women's
History, Reproductive Medicine in the Twentieth Century |
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Women’s
History, popular culture, history of sport, social studies education,
and the movements for social change |
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Impact
of incarceration on children; family factors in crime and delinquency |
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American
Literature,Childhood Studies, Composition, Women’s Literature,
and Literary Presentation of Adoption. |
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Child
development; memory, accuracy of children's eyewitness testimony |
John
Wall
Associate Professor of Religion
johnwall@camden.rutgers.edu
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Religion,
Ethics, Hermeneutics, and Children |
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Health economics,
health care services, health insurance, and access to health
care services |
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