Outstanding Senior Award
Congratulations to Sajwa Pasha who is the winner of this year’s Outstanding Senior Award in Childhood Studies. We wish you the best of luck after graduation, Sajwa!
Dr. Valerie Adams-Bass Published an Article, Exploring Black Youth’s Belief in Racial Socialization Across Parental and Non-parental Agents
Dr. Valerie Adams-Bass published an Article, Exploring Black Youth’s Belief in Racial Socialization Across Parental and Non-parental Agents, in the Journal of Child and Family Studies. Abstract Historically, racial socialization (RS) literature has focused on the content and frequency of RS messages communicated between Black parents and youth. In an effort to examine the potential… continue reading
PhD Student E Lev Feinman was awarded the Student Civic Engagement Award
E is a recipient of this year’s Student Civic Engagement Award, one of the Chancellor’s Awards for Diversity, Inclusion and Civic Engagement. This award honors E’s tremendous work with Camp Brave Trails, a sleepaway camp for LGBTQ+ youth, where they have volunteered for the past four years.
PhD Student Katherine Martin had a chapter published called “Inconspicuous Precarity: The Impossibility of the Inherently Creative Child”
We are excited to announce that Katherine Martin had a chapter called “Inconspicuous Precarity: The Impossibility of the Inherently Creative Child” accepted for an edited book titled Precarities of 21st Century Childhoods: Critical Explorations of Time(s), Place(s), and Identities a while back and the book is finally out and available!
Congratulations to Dr. Heather Reel for her appointed Teaching Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh
I am thrilled to announce that Dr. Heather Reel has been appointed Teaching Assistant Professor in the Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh, starting this fall.
Congratulations to PhD student Lidong Xiang for accepting a tenure track position at the University of Pittsburgh
Lidong Xiang has accepted a tenure track assistant professorship in Global/Transnational Children’s Literature and Childhood Studies in the English Department at the University of Pittsburgh.