Charles Watters, PhD
Professor and Department Chair
ude.sregturnull@srettaw.c
856-225-6299
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.
Dr. Daniel T. Cook
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
ude.sregtur.nedmacnull@kooctd
856-225-2816
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.
Dr. Daniel Hart
Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Director of the Center for Children and Childhood Studies
ude.sregturnull@trah.leinad
856-225-6741
Dr. Hart 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.
Dr. Hart received his B.A. from Bates College and his Ed.D. from Harvard.
Dr. Lynne Vallone
Professor of Childhood Studies and teaches in the English Department
Associate in Center for Children and Childhood Studies
ude.sregturnull@enollav
856-225-2802
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, The Girl’s Own: Cultural Histories of the Anglo-American Girl, 1830-1915, and The Oxford Handbook of Children’s Literature (2011, Oxford). 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.
Robert Atkins, PhD
Associate Professor of Nursing and Childhood Studies at Rutgers-Camden
ude.sregturnull@snikta.trebor
856-225-6483
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).
Dr. Atkins received his BA from Brown University, BSN from the University of Pennsylvania, MSN from Rutgers University, and PhD from Temple University.
Susan A. Miller, PhD
ude.sregtur.nedmacnull@asrellim
856-225-2353
Dr. Miller 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.
Dr. Miller received her BA from the University of Pennsylvania, MS from UPenn Graduate School of Education, MA from Women’s Studies, University of York, England, and her PhD in History & Sociology of Science from the University of Pennsylvania.
Lauren J. Silver, PhD
ude.sregtur.nedmacnull@revlisjl
856-225-2354
Dr. Silver 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.
She received her BA from Washington University in St. Louis, and her MS and PhD from the University of Pennsylvania.
Robin Stevens, PhD
ude.sregturnull@snevets.nibor
856-225-6083
Dr. Stevens 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.
She received her B.A. from Harvard College, MPH from University of Michigan School of Public Health, and PhD from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.
John Wall, PhD
ude.sregtur.nedmacnull@llawnhoj
856-225-6123
Dr. Wall is a theoretical ethicist whose research and teaching focus on the fundamental bases of moral life. He is particularly interested in moral life’s relation to poetics, narrative, culture, religion, time, gender, and age. His work falls into three intersecting areas: post-structuralist phenomenolgies of ethics; examinations of ethics’ religious horizons; and how ethical understanding should be impacted by considerations of childhood.
His most recent book is Ethics in Light of Childhood (Georgetown 2010), an argument for “childism” or enabling considerations of children’s experiences to transform fundamental moral theory. He also recently co-edited Children and Armed Conflict (Palgrave 2011). Previous books include Moral Creativity (Oxford 2005), a discussion of the creative dimensions of moral relations, and the co-edited volumes Marriage, Health, and the Professions (Eerdmans 2002) and Paul Ricoeur and Contemporary Moral Thought (Routledge 2002). He is currently working on two further books: Being and Making, which examines the role of making or creativity in human efforts to form meaning; and Democracy and Childhood, an exploration of how children’s experiences call for revised understandings of democratic justice and representation.
Dr. Wall has taught at Rutgers University, Camden since 2000. He has chaired or read for a number of dissertations, serves on several scholarly journal editorial boards, and in 2006 helped to create the Childhood Studies doctoral program. Since 2010 he has chaired the Childhood Studies and Religion Group at the American Academy of Religion. He was awarded a 2006 Board of Trustees Research Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence and a 2005 Provost’s Award for Teaching Excellence at Rutgers University. He teaches courses in Children’s Rights,Philosophical and Religious Perspectives on Childhood, Evil, Religion and Culture, and Biomedical Ethics.
Department Secretary, Childhood Studies
Sandra Hill has worked for 21 years at Rutgers-Camden. She started at the School of Law, then the Public Policy Department. For the past 6 years, she has had the unique experience of working for the Childhood Studies Department. The Department has attracted international faculty and students with a strong commitment to “shine a light on the lives of children in the past, present and the future.” This has created a mutually respectful atmosphere in the Department between faculty, students and staff.
ude.sregtur.nedmacnull@llihdnas – 856-225-6741
Associate Faculty, Childhood Studies
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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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Myra Bluebond-Langner
Board of Governor Professor of Anthropology and Founding Director, CCCS ude.sregtur.nedmacnull@dnobeulb |
Children and Young People with life-limiting conditions and life-threatening illnesses; Medical Decision Making and Palliative Care
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Care across the lifecourse, nationalism, politics of culture, educational anthropology, West Africa
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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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Reproductive Medicine and Technology, Reproductive Sexuality, Women’s and Gender History, the History of Medicine in the United States
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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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| Health economics, health care services, access to health care services, health disparity, health behavior & health education, and cost benefit/effective analysis | |