Faculty, Childhood Studies Department

Dr. Daniel T. Cook, is Director of the Graduate Studies Program, Associate Professor of Childhood Studies, adjunct in Sociology and an Associate in the Center for Children and Childhood Studies. He is author of The Commodification of Childhood: The Children's Clothing Industry and the Rise of the Child Consumer and Children's Consumer Culture (2004, Duke), editor of Symbolic Childhood (2002, Peter Lang) and of The Lived Experiences of Public Consumption (2008, Palgrave). Dr. Cook also serves as Editor for Childhood: A Journal of Global Child Research (Sage).

Dr. Cook received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in Sociology.

dtcook@camden.rutgers.edu --- 856-225-2816

Dr. Lynne Vallone, Professor of Childhood Studies, is Chair of the Childhood Studies Department. She also teaches in the English Department and is an Associate in the Center for Children and Childhood Studies. She is the author of Disciplines of Virtue: Girls’ Culture in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (1995, Yale) and Becoming Victoria (2001, Yale; a cultural biography of the young Queen Victoria) and the co-editor of The Norton Anthology of Children’s Literature (2005, Norton), Virtual Gender: Fantasies of Subjectivity and Embodiment, and The Girl’s Own: Cultural Histories of the Anglo-American Girl, 1830-1915. Dr. Vallone’s research and teaching interests include children’s literature and culture, the visual and material cultures of childhood and girlhood, and the Victorian Age.

Dr. Vallone received her Ph.D. from SUNY Buffalo and joined Rutgers from Texas A&M University in College Station, TX.

vallone@rutgers.edu --- 856-225-2802

Dr. Daniel Hart (B.A., Bates College; Ed.D., Harvard), Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Director of the Center for Children and Childhood Studies, tries to understand what the components of personality are, the ways in which personality influences successful adjustment to different social contexts, and how the components of personality are acquired over the course of development.  

He has written or edited six books, including Hart, Atkins, & Fegley, Personality and development in childhood: A person-centered approach, Colby & Hart, Character and Competence: Developmental Pathways and Killen & Hart, Morality in everyday life: Developmental Perspectives.

daniel.hart@rutgers.edu --- (856) 225-6741

Associate Faculty in Childhood Studies

Name	Research Interests
(Click on the faculty's name for biographical information)
Robert Atkins Assistant Professor of Nursing robert.atkins@rutgers.edu	Factors affecting the life prospects of youth living in distressed, urban environments
Joseph Barbarese Associate Professor of English & Creative Writing barbares@camden.rutgers.edu	Children's literature, creative writing, poetry, essays
Laurie Bernstein Associate Professor of History lbernste@camden.rutgers.edu	European women's history; Adoption law, foster care, and custody battles and dependent children in Soviet Russia
Holly Blackford Assistant Professor of English blackfor@camden.rutgers.edu	19th/20th Cent. American Literature, Children's Literature, Meanings that children create from literature
Myra Bluebond-Langner Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Founding Director, CCCS bluebond@camden.rutgers.edu	Chronically Ill and Dying Children; Medical Decision Making
Cati Coe Assistant Professor of Anthropology ccoe@camden.rutgers.edu	The politics of culture, nationalism, educational anthropology, West African adolescents in Philadelphia
Daniel T. Cook Associate Professor of Childhood Studies Director, Graduate Program in Childhood Studies dtcook@camden.rutgers.edu	Commodification of Childhood, Children's Consumer Culture
Sheila Cosminsky Associate Professor of Anthropology cosminsk@camden.rutgers.edu	Midwives and medicalization on a Guatemalan plantation; Health of Migrant Children in Southern NJ
Sean Duffy Assistant Professor Department of Psychology seduffy@camden.rutgers.edu	Human development: spatial perception and quantitative reasoning, cognitive and social processes in cultural context, and the development of memory
Janet Golden Professor of History jgolden@camden.rutgers.edu	Medical History, Women's History, Children's History
Lauren Grodstein Assistant Professor of English lgrodste@camden.rutgers.edu	Creative writing, narrative nonfiction, and English literature
Dan Hart Distinguished Professor of Psychology Director, Center for Children & Childhood Studies daniel.hart@rutgers.edu	Moral development and development of personality and social relations
Charlotte N. Markey Assistant Professor of Psychology chmarkey@camden.rutgers.edu	Health Psychology, Psychology of Eating-Related Behaviors, Psychology of Adolescence, and Child Development
Naomi Marmorstein Associate Professor of Psychology marmorst@camden.rutgers.edu	Psychopathology in children and adolescents
Margaret Marsh Distinguished Professor of History, and Dean of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences and the Graduate School mmarsh@camden.rutgers.edu	Women's History, Reproductive Medicine in the Twentieth Century
Jon'a Meyer Associate Professor of Criminal Justice	Cognitive processes involved in children's memory, Native American legal systems, accelerated learning.
Nancy Rosoff Associate Dean for Administration (FAS) nrosoff@camden.rutgers.edu	Women’s History, popular culture, history of sport, social studies education, and the movements for social change
Jane A. Siegel Associate Professor of Criminal Justice jasiegel@camden.rutgers.edu	Impact of incarceration on children; family factors in crime and delinquency
Carol J. Singley Associate Professor of English singley@camden.rutgers.edu	American Literature,Childhood Studies, Composition, Women’s Literature, and Literary Presentation of Adoption.
Karen Thierry Assistant Professor of Psychology kthierry@camden.rutgers.edu	Child development; memory, accuracy of children's eyewitness testimony
John Wall Associate Professor of Religion johnwall@camden.rutgers.edu	Religion, Ethics, Hermeneutics, and Children
Lynne Vallone Professor of Childhood Studies Chair, Department of Childhood Studies vallone@rutgers.edu	Children's Literature, 18th and 19th Century Girls' Culture
Tetsuji Yamada Professor of Health Economics ytetsuji@aol.com	Health economics, health care services, health insurance, and access to health care services

Last updated September 6, 2008