Identifying unaccompanied minors in the U.S. finds disparities in court representation

Research published in International Migration Review offers a novel approach through new dataBy Sarah Steimer Research on the treatment of unaccompani...

CHD Faculty receive Neubauer support for 2025-26 projects

The Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society has announced nine new faculty-led research projects that will address a range of complex questions and...

Physical gesture can be a simple intervention to counteract stereotypes introduced by subtle language

Children who saw an “equal” gesture were more likely to express egalitarian beliefs.By Sarah SteimerEven when the intention is to express equality, sp...

Faculty Comparative Human Development Psychology Announcements

Exploring how whole-to-part learning is a natural bias in children

By Sarah Steimer Young children learning a language approach it in two ways: by learning parts and constructing wholes, or by learning wholes and disc...

Comparative Human Development Faculty Announcements

A new book on the DeafBlind community considers communication the limits of language

Going Tactile is the product of almost 20 years of Terra Edwards’s anthropological research and engagement with the community. By Sarah Steimer ...

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2024-25 Neubauer Collegium Faculty Research Projects Announced

The Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society has selected eight new faculty-led research projects to launch July 1, 2024.“These new faculty research...

Faculty Announcements

Deepening our understanding of deafness, technology, and ‘normalization’

Michele Friedner’s latest book, which received the 2023 Rachel Carson prize from the Society for the Social Studies of Science, is hailed as “nuanced ...

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Two SSD researchers receive NEH grants for their studies of disability technoculture, global capitalism

By Sarah Steimer Research from two SSD faculty — one focused on cochlear implants within disability technoculture and the other examining the effec...

Prof. Chiara Galli authors new book, Precarious Protections

Faculty Comparative Human Development Announcements

Turning a keen eye toward the tension between protected migrants and exclusionary tendencies in the West

This book has been awarded the 2024 Distinguished Scholarship Award from the Pacific Sociological Association. Chiara Galli’s forthcoming book is b...