Leadership Team

Sara Harkness

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

sara.harkness@uconn.edu

860 486 4374

Storrs

Charles Super

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

charles.super@uconn.edu

860 486 1595

Storrs

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

caroline.mavridis@uconn.edu

860 486 1595

Storrs

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

saskia.vanschaik@ru.nl