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.
Congratulations to PhD Candidate Lisa Puga on her recently published article in the Peabody Journal of Education: “‘Homeschooling is Our Protest”: Educational Liberation for African American Homeschooling Families in Philadelphia, PA” Read the article 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.
Congratulations to PhD student, Mary Louise Mitsdarffer, who was awarded a Diversity Scholarship for the 2019 ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research at the University of Michigan which was established in 2018 to promote quantitative training among incoming graduate students from underrepresented groups. Thanks to a generous grant from the Bill &… continue reading
In this essay, Dr. Silver asks childhood studies scholars to look critically at what justice means and what it would entail for differently positioned children, youth, and communities. Silver maps out a concept and praxis of transformative childhood studies (TCS) which involves a remix in transformative justice, childhood studies scholarship, and feminist methodology. She draws… continue reading
