  An interdisciplinary approach to the study of individuals in context |
Faculty of the Department of Comparative Human Development |
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Chairman
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Richard P. Taub
Urban communities, rural communities, economic development, entrepreneurship, and Indian studies (India). Field work. |
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Faculty
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Bertram J. Cohler
Study of lives in context, focusing on change over time, using both narrative and counted data approaches; developmental psychopathology; family and personality development; study of resilience and response to adversity in the life-story. |
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Jennifer Cole
Cultural anthropology, psychological anthropology, social processes of memory and forgetting, colonialism and post-colonial identity, adolescence and globalization, charismatic churches, Africa and Madagascar. |
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Raymond D. Fogelson
Psychological and medical anthropology; primitive religion; cultural dynamics; ethnohistory. |
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Susan Goldin-Meadow
Developmental psychology; longitudinal study of processes in language acquisition; gestural communication in deaf and hearing children; gesture and speech as reflection of "readiness" to learn. |
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William M. Goldstein
Judgment and decision making with an emphasis on the psychology of preference, uncertainty, and the resolution of conflicting goals. Domain-specificity of decision processes. Coordination of multiple decisions to achieve overarching goals. Planning and decision making in the face of blocked goals. |
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Micere Keels
Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Human Development. |
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John Lucy
Cross-cultural and developmental perspectives exploring the interface among the symbolic structures we call language, culture, and self; the impact of grammatical diversity on thought and the particular importance of metalinguistic capabilities in human social interaction; the role of language in the development of conceptual thought and self during middle childhood; languages and cultures of the Mayan peoples. |
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Dario Maestripieri
Parenting and infant development in human and nonhuman primates. Infant abuse and neglect. Behavioral endocrinology of parental responsiveness. Proximate mechanisms and evolutionary aspects ofsocial behavior, communication, and cognition in animals. |
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Jill Mateo
Behavioral ecology with a focus on social development. Kin recognition mechanisms and anti- predator responses and their development in ground squirrels. Stress, learning and development in an ecological context. Human behavioral ecology and Darwinian health. |
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Martha K. McClintock
Behavioral endocrinology of reproduction in animals and humans; behavioral psychological, and social regulation of physiology; evolution and development of the interaction between hormones and behavior. |
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David E. Orlinsky
Psychotherapeutic process and outcome; comparative analysis of psychotherapeutic systems; personality and interpersonal relationships; love relationships through the life cycle; theories of self, culture, and society; Freud's psychological writings. |
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Richard A. Shweder
Psychological anthropology and cultural psychology, with special reference to the anthropology of thought and cross-cultural human development; symbol systems and intellectual processes; cultural belief systems; culture and moral development; rationality and moral reasoning; person perception; concepts of the person; culture and health behavior; multiculturalism, immigration and norm conflict between cultures. |
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Susan Stodolsky
Educational issues; subject matter differences in teachers' work;student attitudes and conceptions of learning; improving Jewish education; observational and qualitative research methods; evaluation of social programs. |
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Faculty Associates
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Kathleen Cagney
Racial and socioeconomic status differences in health, with a focus on aging and the life course. She is interested in the degree to which neighborhood social structure (e.g., poverty, affluence, residential stability) and social processes (e.g., physical and social disorder, networks, collective efficacy) affect the health and well-being of older persons. In addition, she examines the extent to which the presence of older persons in a neighborhood contributes to the overall health of the community. |
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Jean Comaroff
Anthropology, history and social theory, with emphasis on the ways in which signifying practices -- like embodiment, commodification and ritual/healing -- have mediated the making of colonial society and moderniy, especially in Southern Africa. |
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Judith Farquhar
Anthropology of medicine, knowledge, and embodiment. Her research has focused on contemporary Chinese society and popular culture with special emphasis on traditional medicine and its many practical contexts. Studies of medical culture have ranged from the logics of clinical practice to the uses of popular public health information and the cultivation of health in everyday life. Theoretical interests in history and memory, embodiment, epistemology, and critical science studies. |
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Susan Fisher
Practicing psychoanalyst. Adolescent sexuality; psychoanalytic theory across cultures; clinical and developmental aspects of adoption and parenting; integration of psychoanalytic developmental theory and neuroscience.
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Sydney L. Hans
Developmental psychopathology; parent-child relationships throughout the life course; impact of parental psychopathology and substance abuse on children; women and violence; adolescent parenting; roles of fathers in families; supportive interventions for families with infants and young children. |
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Salikoko Mufwene
Language evolution, including the speciation of languages into new varieties -- especially in recent colonial settings -- and the concurrent endangerment of indigenous languages. How do competition and selection proceed and what is the role of ecology, including population structure and the other languages that a particular language comes in contact with? In the cases of "traditional" language change and of the emergence of new language varieties, how does restructuring work? Is there a specific form of restructuring that can be identified as "creolization"? What aspects of globalization bear on language endangerment? |
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Linda Waite
Linda Waite is the Lucy Flower Professor in Urban Sociology. Waite's current research interests include social demography, aging, the family, health, working families, the link between biology, psychology and the social world. Waite's current research projects include studies on the Social Life, Health, and Illness at Older Ages (Co-Principal Investigator); Contemporary Families and Experiences of Work (Co-Principal Investigator); The Social Environment, Loneliness, Stress and Health (Co-Principal Investigators); Loneliness, Stress and Health in Aging (Investigator). |