We are so excited to welcome Marilisa Jiménez García !

Yesterday, a poor, black, teenage mother from 08105 successfully defended her dissertation to earn a PhD with distinction. Anyone of those statistics could have stopped her, but nah! She said she could, so she did!

Introducing DR JANENE RYAN!!! With Crystal Webster, PhD & Wenhua Lu. Join us in congratulating Janene Ryan on this ground-shifting reckoning of a dissertation, 'Preparing for Assault: Framing the Psychological Impact of 'The Talk' Within Black Childhood.' #Camden #ChildhoodStudies

Yesterday the amazing halle singh, phd defended her dissertation, Girlhood After Dark: Nighttime, Leisure, and the Temporality of Gender. You all need to read this work!

It's been a tremendous honor to chair this fabulous dissertation. Congrats, Halle! You're a star. ✨

Writing my chapter on children’s consent and bodily autonomy. I’m finding very little scholarship on this in everyday contexts (lit focuses on consent for research or legal consent.) Any suggestions welcome! #ChildhoodStudies Childhood Studies

We have such a great line-up of topics, papers, and folks this year! Plus, our keynote will be by the amazing Ashleigh Greene Wade, Ph.D., author of Black Girl Autopoetics ~ we hope you can join us! ✨

Registration for 'The Mundanity of Girlhood' is now live! Register here: eventbrite.com/e/the-mundanit…

Another new podcast episode from VNAdams
and Sheretta Butler-Barnes, PhD with Dr. Alvin Thomas, PhD. - Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bla…

Love when course assignments turn into publications! Read Childhood Studies PhD student Elizabeth Nelson's review of The Disabled Child: Memoirs of a Normal Future, by Amanda Apgar. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ch…

Listen to Professor VNAdams and Sheretta Butler-Barnes, PhD new podcast episode! 'Art, Activism, and Advocacy: A Conversation with Michelle Browder' podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rai…

Call for articles: 'Bringing young children into conversations about their lives.'

For a special issue of Children & Society, co-edited by our member mohammed alruzzi | محمد الرزي.

Abstracts due by 29 March.

Last year, our symposium had over 70 presenters and over 400 registered attendees from around the world, making it one of the largest annual events for girls’ studies scholars to connect and share their work! 🤯 Don’t miss this great opportunity, submit your abstracts by Feb 4th!

We're inviting short papers for our special blog series:
'Childhood & Migration.'

Submissions due by 31 January, 2024.

The series, jointly published by The Childhood, Law & Policy Network (CLPN) & TheCCYSC, is co-edited by our members Adrienne Lee Atterberry (@UnionCollege) & Karina Ruiz (@ucsc).

Call for conference papers: 'Co-creating futures with children & young people: mapping, planning, designing.'

For a session at the Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society.

Abstracts due by 23 February.

A seminar series on the history of childhood, from January to March.

The seminars will be held online & at Oxford University.

One of the seminars will discuss a new article by our member, Mona Gleason.

A conversation piece where some of us reflect on teaching courses on ‘global childhoods,’ & unpacking these categories. Part of the 30th anniversary celebrations of the Sage journal Childhood. Marek Tesar @afua_imoh Nicola Ansell journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09…

We're delighted to publish our interview with our members John Wall, Rutgers University & Karen Wells🏳️‍🌈, and their co-editor Sarada Balagopalan (@childhoodruc), about their edited collection - The Bloomsbury Handbook of Theories in Childhood Studies (@BloomsburyPub):

qmul.ac.uk/clpn/news-view…

For the Winter Issue of Rutgers–Camden Magazine, I talked to Caroline Brobeil about finding my way to IWOC and Childhood Studies.

stories.camden.rutgers.edu/brains-heart-a…

A wonderful opportunity to co-author with Diane Hughes. 'How Adults Can Promote Positive Racial and Ethnic Identities in the Context of Structural Racism' What is Black Dr. Howard Stevenson Rutgers–Camden Childhood Studies SRCDBlackCaucus Society for Research in Child Development APA Division 45 Black in Psych