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Faculty,
Childhood Studies Department
 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.
Lynne Vallone, Professor of Childhood Studies, is
Chair of the Childhood Studies Department. She also 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
 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
 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
 Charles
Watters, PhD is Director of the European
Centre for the Study of Migration and Social Care at the University
of Kent. His recent 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 recent
work also includes a major study under the ESRC Identities and
Social Action Programme 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 is international advisor
to a range of initiatives on migration including recently acting
as a Scientific Advisor to the Presidency of the EU. He is the
Founding Editor of the International Journal
of Migration, Health and Social Care. His recent publications
include the 2008 book
Refugee
Children: Towards the Next Horizon. Routledge.
Email: C.Watters@kent.ac.uk (until
Jan 2010)
Associate Faculty in Childhood Studies
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Research
Interests |
(Click
on the faculty's name for biographical information)
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Factors
affecting the life prospects of youth living in distressed,
urban environments |
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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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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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Cognitive
processes involved in children's memory, Native American legal
systems, accelerated learning. |
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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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