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. Matthew Pritchet, a recent Childhood Studies graduate, writes an article for the Philadelphia Inquirer titled, “Greta Thunberg knows how adults disenfranchise children and is outsmarting us.” Read the full article here.
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 Student Joseph V. Giunta has a chapter entitled “Why Are You Keeping This Curiosity Door Locked?”: Childhood Subjectivities and Play as Conflict Resoultuion in the Postmodern Web Series Stranger Things in Child and Youth Agency in Science Fiction: Travel, Technology, Time due to be released in November. For more information click here.
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.
