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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

PhD Candidate Lisa Puga was recently interviewed on WURD Radio’s “Reality Check” about her doctoral research with Black homeschooling families in Philadelphia.  Listen to the interivew here.

Dr. Meredith Bak (assistant professor, Childhood Studies) coauthored an article, “Struggling for Recognition: Intensive Mothering’s ‘Practical Effects’ in the Babadook” in the Quarterly Review of Film and Video. Read the article here.

The Department of Childhood Studies welcomes Anthony Wright to the faculty in Fall 2019. Anthony Wright will receive his PhD in medical anthropology this spring from the University of California, Berkeley and San Francisco. His research uses ethnographic methods to explore technologically mediated processes of care and communication among young people in life-threatening circumstances, from… continue reading