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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

Establishing a better educational environment for rural children in her native Tibet. Qiugie is the winner of a Tibetan Arts and Literature Initiative Travel Grant, which allowed her to observe K-12 schools in Austin (Texas) to learn about best teaching practices.

Dr. Kate Cairns has a coauthored article in Aeon magazine on the pressures mothers face to raise an “organic child,” and the need for collective solutions that provide nutritious, sustainable options for all children. Read the article here.

Jessica Schriver a Ph.D student in the Department of Childhood Studies had her project “Prosthetic Womb Kit, published in Enculturation.  Read all about it here.

Rashmi Kumari’s paper is a review of the discourses generated in the media after the September 2018 verdict by the Supreme Court of India which ‘allowed’ women of all ages to enter the Sabarimala temple. She analyzes the discourses primarily in these three groups – first, the advocates of the ‘subaltern’ subject, second, the advocates… continue reading