Student news – Department of Childhood Studies

Former Mellon Foundation Intern Israel Miller Receives The Chancellor’s Award for Diversity, Inclusion and Community Engagement

Posted April 4, 2025April 14, 2025 in Student news

Former Mellon Foundation intern Israel Miller, a senior at Rutgers University Camden majoring in Criminal Justice and minoring in English, received the 2025 Chancellor’s Award for Diversity, Inclusion, and Community Engagement in Student Civic Engagement. Israel interned in 2024 at POPPYN, an award-winning social justice media program in Philadelphia that supports high school students to transform local media by… continue reading

Dr. Kate Cairns coauthored “Social Reproduction Theory Revisited”

Posted July 30, 2021 in Faculty news, News, Student news

Dr. Kate Cairns coauthored the article “Social Reproduction Theory Revisited” published in the British Journal of Sociology of Education. Read the article here.

Dr. Lauren Silver has recently authored an article titled “Queering reproductive justice: Memories, mistakes and motivations to transform kinship”

Posted September 23, 2020 in Faculty news, News, Student news

Dr. Lauren Silver has recently authored an article titled “Queering reproductive justice: Memories, mistakes and motivations to transform kinship” published in the September issue of Feminist Anthropology. Read the article here.

A Round of Applause for our Graduate Student Paper Award Keynotes…Heather and Michelle

Posted April 28, 2020 in Faculty news, News, Student news

The Graduate School is please to announce the second annual Graduate Student Paper Competition winners: Heather Reel and Michelle Lyttle-Storrod. Their papers were judged on the basis of quality of writing, originality of the work, and overall contribution to the knowledge base of their field. To read more about their papers click here.

Congratulations to Ph.D. Student Lidong Xiang for being selected as a fellow at the International Youth Library in Munich, Germany

Posted December 11, 2019 in News, Student news

Ph.D. student Lidong Xiang received a fellowship from the International Youth Library to research for three months during summer 2020. This fellowship program is funded by the Foreign Ministry of the Federal Republic of Germany. She’s going to use the collection of books for children and young adults to do a comparative study between Chinese… continue reading

Dr. Sarada Balagopalan has authored an article, “Why Historicize Rights Subjectives? Children’s Rights, Compulsory Schooling, and the Deregulation of Child Labor in India”

Posted December 5, 2019 in Faculty news, News, Student news

Dr. SARADA BALAGOPALAN (associate professor, FASC-childhood studies) has authored an article, “Why Historicize Rights Subjectivities? Children’s Rights, Compulsory Schooling, and the Deregulation of Child Labor in India” that appeared in Childhood: A Journal of Global Child Research. She also has been named as a Wolf Humanities Center Regional Fellow for the 2019-20 Forum on Kinship… continue reading