Faculty

A listing of faculty who teach courses within the Early Childhood Education field.

College of Education Faculty

Faculty Member	Research Interests
Katerina Bodovski Assistant Professor of Education kxb918@psu.edu	Research Emphasis: Sociology of education, stratification and inequality, immigration, comparative and international education, sociology of children.
Gail Boldt Associate Professor of Education Affiliate Faculty, Women’s Studies gboldt@psu.edu	Research Emphasis: constructions of identity (gender, sexuality and race) in school settings, digital and new literacies, children’s popular culture, early childhood, the emotional dimensions of reading difficulties, post-structuralism and psychoanalysis.
J. Douglas Coatsworth Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Studies jdc15@psu.edu	Research Emphasis: Family focused interventions, youth activity participation and identify development, and positive youth development through athletics.
Gary Cross Distinguished Professor of Modern History gsc2@psu.edu	Research Emphasis: Commercialization of childhood and its impact on parental-child relations across the 20th century. Author of Kids’ Stuff: Toys and the Changing World of American Childhood and The Cute and the Cool: Wondrous Innocence and Modern American Children’s Culture.
Rick Fiene Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Studies rjf8@psu.edu	Research Emphasis: Child care quality,infant development.
Mark Greenberg Professor of Human Development and Psychology mxg47@psu.edu	Research Emphasis: Child-youth well-being, preventive intervention, and program development, implementation and evaluation.
Daniel Hade Associate Professor of Education ddh2@psu.edu	Research Emphasis: Children’s literature
Jim Johnson Professor of Education jej4@psu.edu	Research Emphasis: Play, early childhood education curriculum, family’s role in education.
Lynn S. Liben Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Human Development and Family Studies liben@psu.edu	Research Emphasis: Developmental psychology with focus on (a) origins of indivudal and gender differences in spatial skills and understanding spatial representations (e.g., maps), and their role in education; (b) development and educational implications of social-group stereotypes.
Maryellen Schaub Assistant Professor of Education mxs88@psu.edu	Research Emphasis: Sociology of education, parenting and early childhood.
Stephanie Serriere Assistant Professor of Education scs22@psu.edu	Research Emphasis: Children experiences of democracy, early civic education.
Deborah C. Smith Assistant Professor of Education dcs27@psu.edu	Research Emphasis: Early childhood science teaching and learning.
Susan S. Woodhouse Assistant Professor of Education ssw10@psu.edu	Research Emphasis: Attachment and emotion regulation in families, preventive intervention with families,infants and children; attachment, process, and outcome of parenting interventions;cultural variations in parenting, community based participatory research(CBPR) in the African American community to address mental health disparities(e.g. anxiety in toddlers).
Heather Zimmerman Assistant Professor of Education haz2@psu.edu	Research Emphasis: Learning sciences research related to (a) parents and children learning science together in museums, homes, outdoors, and community organizations and (b) connections between everyday experiences and school learning.

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