Sara Harkness
Professor, Director CHHD
HDFS, Pediatrics
Research Interests: cultural structuring of human development,parents’ cultural belief systems and parenting,cognitive affective social and language development in early childhood,cultural influences on health at the household and community levels,family policy
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Charles Super
Professor, Co-Director CHHD
HDFS, Pediatrics
Research Interests: Cultural regulation of human development particularly during infancy and childhood, Parental and professional ethnotheories of child development and behavior, Interventions to promote the physical and mental health of children and families, Mixed methods research design and data analysis
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Caroline Mavridis
Assistant Research Professor of HDFS, Associate Director of the CHHD
HDFS
Research Interests: The role of cultural context in parenting and children’s development, Mothers’ beliefs and experiences related to motherhood; self-care and well-being, Evaluation of programs to educate and empower frontline family workers, Family workers’ self-care and well-being Culture and climate in human services organizations
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Saskia van Schaik
Assistant Professor
Philosophy of Behavioural Sciences, Radboud University, The Netherlands
Research Interests: culture and preschool education,group processes in preschool education,parental ethnotheories and practices,early childhood development