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Family Research Scholars Program

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Daniel Anderson , Professor of Psychology

"A neuroscience of children and media?"Journal of Children and Media, Volume 1, Issue 1 February 2007 , pages 77 - 85.

"The impact of television on cognitive development and educational achievement." (with Evans, M.K.) In J. Murray, N. Pecora; E. Wartella (Eds), Fifty years of children's television (pp. 65-84). Erlbaum.

" Brain imaging – An introduction to a new approach to studying media processes and effects". (2006). (with D.R., Bryant, J., Murray , J.P., Rich, M., Rivkin, M., & Zillmann, D.) Media Psychology, 8, 1-6.

Anderson, D.R. & Kirkorian, H.L. (2006). Attention and television. In J. Bryant & P. Vorderer (Eds.), The psychology of entertainment (pp. 35-54). Mahway , NJ : Erlbaum.

Anderson , D.R., Fite, K.V., Petrovich, N., & Hirsch, J. (2006). Cortical activation while watching video montage: An fMRI study. Media Psychology, 8, 7-24.

Blass, E.M., Anderson , D.R., Kirkorian, H.L., Pempek, T.A., Price, I. , & Koleini, M.F. (2006). On the road to obesity: Television viewing increases intake of high-density food. Physiology & Behavior, 88, 597-604.

Nancy Folbre, Professor of Economics

Greed, Lust and Gender: A History of Economic Ideas. Manuscript in progress, under contract to Oxford University Press.

Valuing Children: Rethinking the Economics of the Family; Harvard University Press. (2006).

Editor (with Lois Shaw and Agneta Stark), Warm Hands in a Cold Age: Gender and Aging. New York: Routledge. (2006).

The New Field Guide to the U.S. Economy, revised and updated (with Jonathan Teller-Elsberg and James Heintz). New York: The New Press. (2006).

Editor (with Michael Bittman) Family Time: The Social Organization of Care. New York: Routledge.(2004).

"What is Child Care? Lessons from Time Use Surveys of Major English-Speaking Countries," (with Jayoung Yoon), Review of the Economics of the Household, 2007, vol. 5, issue 3, pages 223-248.

"Measuring Care: Gender, Empowerment, and the Care Economy," Journal of Human Development 7:2 (July): 183-200, (2006).

"Nursebots to the Rescue? Immigration, Automation, and Care?" Globalizations 3:3 (September), 367-378. (2006).

"Rethinking the Child Care Sector," Journal of the Community Development Society 37:2 (Summer), 38-52. (2006).

"Demanding Quality: Worker/Consumer Coalitions and "High Road" Strategies in the Care Sector," Politics and Society 34:1 (March), 1-21. (2006).

"Why a Well Paid Nurse Is a Better Nurse"! (with Julie Nelson), Journal of Nursing Economics 24:3 (May-June), 127-130. (2006).

Marsha Kline Pruett, Maconda Brown O'Connor Professor, Smith College School for Social Work

Cowan, C.P., Cowan, P.A., Pruett, M.K., & Pruett, K.D. An approach to preventing co-parenting conflict and divorce in low-income families: Strengthening couple relationships and fostering fathers' involvement. Family Process, in press.

Pruett, M.K., Williams, T., Insabella, G. & Little, T. "Family and legal indicators of child adjustment to divorce among families with young children." Journal of Family Psychology, 17 (2), 169-180, 2003.

Insabella, G.M., Williams, T., & Pruett, M.K." Individual and co-parenting differences between divorced and unmarried fathers: Implications for family court services", Family Court Review, 41 (3), 290-306, 2003.

Pruett, M.K., Ebling, R. & Insabella, G.M. Critical aspects of parenting plans for young children: Interjecting data into the debate about overnights. Family Court Review, 42 (1), 39-59, January. 2004.

Pruett, M.K. Insabella, G., & Gustafson, K. "The Collaborative Divorce Project: A court based intervention for separating parents with young children". Special issue on Interventions in the Family Court System, C. Depner & I. Sandler (Eds.), Family Court Review, 43(1), 38-51, January 2005.

"Applications of Attachment Theory and Child Development Research to Young Children's Overnights In Separated and Divorced Families". In M. K. Pruett (Ed.), Overnights and Young Children: Essays from the Family Court Review, 2005.

Dean E. Robinson,, Associate Professor of Political Science

"Black Power-Era Nationalism as Ethnic Pluralism: Postwar Liberalism's Ethnic Paradigm in Black Radicalism." I n Kenneth Warren and Adolph Reed, Jr. (eds.) Renewing Black Intellectual History: the Ideological and Material Foundations of Black American Thought. (University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming).

"Ichiro Kawachi, Norman Daniels, Dean E. Robinson, "Health Disparities by Race and Class: Why Both Matter." Health Affairs 24 (2) March/April 2005.

"'The Black Family and U.S. Social Policy," Revue Française d'Études Américaine 97. September 2003.

Black Nationalism in American Politics and Thought. Cambridge University Press, New York, 2001.

Lisa Wexler, Assistant Professor, Community Health Education

Wexler, L., Hill, R., & Fenaughty, A (pending). Correlates of suicide and suicide attempts in northwest Alaska. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behaviors.

Wexler, L. (submitted). Youth and adult community member beliefs about Inupiat youth suicide and prevention. International Journal of Circumpolar Health.

Wexler, L. (In press). Inupiat Youth Suicide & Culture Loss: Changing Community Conversations. Social Science and Medicine.

Wexler, L. (2006). Deconstructing assimilation strategies—Learning resistance. Inupiat and the bureau of education 1885-1906 and implications for today. Journal of American Indian Education 45 (1):17-34.

Wexler, L. (2005). Inupiat youth suicide: A critical ethnography of problem-solving and response in northwest Alaska (sidebar). International Journal of Circumpolar Health 64 (2): 191.

Seppanen, P. & Wexler, L. (1999). Evaluation resources: Success for all children—Principals’ academy. Center for Applied Research and Educational Improvement, University of Minnesota.

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