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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

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.

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! 

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.

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.

Dr. Dan Cook delivered the Robin M. Williams, Jr. Lecture, “Sights in Common: Ruminations Between Photography and Sociology,” at the Eastern Sociological Society Meeting in February.