About five years ago, Dan Cook recalls, he began leading an editorial team on a mission to create the premiere reference work for the burgeoning, global field of childhood studies. Fast forward to the present day, as the Rutgers University–Camden researcher announces the publication of the major, field-defining work – The SAGE Encyclopedia of… continue reading
Dr. Dan Cook published his final editorial in Childhood, “The Wages of Constructivism”. Read the article here.
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.
PhD Student Beth McIntyre is quoted in theLA Times article “So many languages, so few books: Libraries struggle to reflect places they serve”. Read the article here.
Meredith A. Bak, Assistant Professor Playful Visions: Optical Toys and the Emergence of Children’s Media Culture (MIT Press, 2020) The kaleidoscope, the stereoscope, and other nineteenth-century optical toys analyzed as “new media” of their era, provoking anxieties similar to our own about children and screens. In the nineteenth century, the kaleidoscope, the thaumatrope, the zoetrope,… continue reading
Daniel Cook, Professor The Moral Project of Childhood (NYU Press, 2020) Examines the Protestant origins of motherhood and the child consumer. Throughout history, the responsibility for children’s moral well-being has fallen into the laps of mothers. In The Moral Project of Childhood, the noted childhood studies scholar Daniel Thomas Cook illustrates how mothers in the… continue reading
