Rethinking Childhood

Contributors

Contributors 275 275 Contributors ENOLA G. AIRD received her J.D. from Yale University. She is currently an affiliate scholar at the Institute for American Values, where she directs the Motherhood Project. She is an advisor to the National Parenting Association’s Task Force on Revitalizing Parenting for the 21st Century and a network affiliate of Future Focus 2020. She has served on the Institute’s Council on Civil Society and contributed to the Council’s 1998 report, A Call to Civil Society; she was the lead author and chief Institute spokesperson for the 1999 consensus statement , Turning the Corner on Father Absence in Black America. BRENDA A. ALLEN received her Ph.D. from Howard University and is currently an associate professor of psychology and the director of institutional diversity at Smith College. She has published research and written theoretical articles on the relationship between culture and learning, memory and cognitive processing. A. WADE BOYKIN is currently professor of psychology and director of the Center for Research on the Education of Students at Risk at Howard University. His publications include Talent Development, Cultural Deep Structure, and School Reform ; Schooling Students Placed at Risk; and, forthcoming, The Psychology of African American Experience (with B. Allen and R. Jagers). JUSTINE CASSELL holds a master’s in literature from the Université de Besançon (France), a master’s in linguistics from the University of Edinburgh (Scotland), and a double Ph.D. (in psychology and linguistics) from the University of Chicago. She is an associate professor at MIT’s Media Laboratory, where she directs the Gesture and Narrative Language Research Group. She is currently investigating the role that technologies play in children’s lives. She is the coeditor of From Barbie to Mortal Kombat (with Henry Jenkins) and the author of Embodied Conversational Agents. RAYMOND A. DUCHARME received his M.A. and Ph.D. from Teachers College, Columbia University. He is professor emeritus of education and child study at 276 Contributors Smith College and is the past director of the Smith College Campus School. His scholarship has focused on education in the United States. ROBERT E. EMERY received his Ph.D. in psychology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is currently the director of the Center for Children , Families, and the Law at the University of Virginia, a professor of psychology , and the director of the department’s clinical-training program. His research focuses on family conflict, violence, divorce, and child-custody disputes. Included among his many publications are Marriage, Divorce, and Children’s Readjustment and Renegotiating Family Relationships. SUSAN ETHEREDGE received her Ed.D. from the University of Massachusetts and is currently an assistant professor of education and child studies at Smith College . Her research focuses on the teaching-learning process within primary and preschool classrooms, the classroom as a discourse community, and teachers’ use of story and inquiry. She has published Introducing Students to Scientific Inquiry with Al Rudnitsky. KAREN A. GRAY received her M.A. from the University of Kansas and her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. She is currently an instructor in the College for Social Work at the University of South Carolina. Her current research focuses on poverty, welfare reform, community organization and development , as well as child abuse and neglect. She is a Southeast Region board member of the Association for Community Organization and Social Administration. ALICE HEARST received a J.D. from the University of Washington and a Ph.D. in American politics and political theory from Cornell University. She is currently an associate professor of government at Smith College and has been a research fellow at the Queen’s University in Belfast, Ireland, where she continued her research on children’s rights. ALLISON JAMES is a professor of sociology at Sheffield University (United Kingdom ) and researches children’s identity, especially in relation to disability and food. She is deputy head of the School of Comparative and Applied Social Sciences and director of the Centre for the Social Study of Childhood. Her publications include Childhood Identities, Growing Up and Growing Old, and Constructing and Reconstructing Childhood. JILL E. KORBIN received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles . She is a professor of anthropology at Case Western Reserve University, where she also serves as associate dean of arts and sciences, director of childhood stud- Contributors 277 ies, and codirector of the Schubert Center for...