Eva Lupold’s dissertation adopts an interdisciplinary approach that bridges disability studies, girlhood studies, and media studies. The project examines discourses surrounding disabled girlhoods that circulate in mass media which are constructed by adult “authorities,” as well as the way that disabled girls negotiate such discourses in online platforms. Using Foucauldian Discourse Analysis, Eva assesses the… continue reading
The department of Childhood Studies is pleased to announce the winners of the 2015-2016 Outstanding Graduating Senior award: Ndidiamaka Onwudinjo and Darnell Williams. Congratulations!”
The Department of Childhood Studies is delighted to welcome Dr. Wenhua Lu as a new assistant professor Childhood Studies beginning September 1, 2016. Dr. Lu is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the Silver School of Social Work at New York University. She earned her Ph.D. in Health Education from Texas A&M University in 2014. … continue reading
Kate Cairns has published a new chapter in Volume 4 of Geographies of Children and Young People, edited by Nancy Worth, Claire Dwyer and Tracy Skelton (Springer). Reviewing key scholarship on childhood, food, and subjectivity, the chapter examines three sites within children and young people’s foodscapes: family food, school food, and fast food.
