Barbara Schecter

Director, Graduate Program in Child Development/Psychology
B.A., Sarah Lawrence College. M.A., Ph.D., Teachers College, Columbia University. Developmental psychologist with special interest in cultural psychology, developmental theories, language and development; author and researcher on cultural issues in development and metaphoric thinking in children. SLC, 1985-
http://pages.slc.edu/~schecter

Carl Barenboim

Psychology
B.A., Clark University. Ph.D., University of Rochester. Special interest in the child’s developing ability to reason about the social world, as well as the relation between children’s social thinking and social behavior; articles and chapters on children’s perspective-taking, person perception, interpersonal problem-solving, and the ability to infer carelessness in others; past member, Board of Consulting Editors, Developmental Psychology; principal investigator, grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. SLC, 1988-

Jan Drucker

Psychology
B.A., Radcliffe College. Ph.D., New York University. Clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst with focus on development of normal and emotionally disturbed young children; author and researcher on play and other symbolic processes and aspects of development in the preschool years. SLC, 1972-

Kim Ferguson

Psychology
B.A., Knox College. M.A., Ph.D., Cornell University. Special interests include cultural-ecological approaches to infant and child development; children at risk (children in poverty, HIV/AIDS orphans, children in foster care and institutionalized care); health and cognitive development; and development in African contexts. Areas of academic specialization include infant categorization development and the influences of the task, the stimuli used, and infants’ culture, language, and socioeconomic status on their performance; infant face processing in African and American contexts; relationships between the quality of southern African orphan care contexts and child outcomes. SLC, 2007-

Ferdinand Jones

Psychology

A.B., Drew University. Ph.D., University of Vienna. Professor emeritus of psychology, Brown University; retired director of Brown University Psychological Services. Sarah Lawrence College Psychology faculty, 1968-1972. Teaching perspectives derive from clinical observations of interplay of people’s development, behaviors, and their social and cultural contexts. Current writing focus is interpreting jazz music to illuminate adaptive capacities of African Americans and, by extension, all humans. Visiting professor appointments: University of Dar Es Salaam, Oberlin College, Rhode Island School of Design, University of Cape Town. Past president of the American Orthopsychiatric Association. SLC, 1968-1972; 2000-2001; 2005-

Linwood Lewis

Psychology
B.A., Manhattanville College. M.A., Ph.D., City University of New York. M.S., Columbia University. Special interests in the effects of culture and social context on conceptualization of health and illness, multicultural aspects of genetic counseling, the negotiation of HIV within families, and the development of sexuality in ethnic minority adolescents and adults. Recipient of a MacArthur Postdoctoral fellowship and an NIH-NRSA research fellowship. SLC, 1997-
http://pages.slc.edu/~ljlewis

Leah Olson

Biology
B.A., Evergreen State College. Ph.D., State University of New York-Albany. Special interest in the neurobiology of circadian rhythms and in the neurobiology of learning and memory; research and papers on circadian rhythms. SLC, 1987-

Courtney Stevens

Psychology
B.A., Reed College. M.S., Ph.D., University of Oregon. Research focuses on neuroplasticity, or how the brain changes in response to new experiences. Areas of specialty include language and reading acquisition. Research utilizes behavioral and neuroimaging (ERP, fMRI) methodologies. Author of articles and book chapters on specific language impairment, dyslexia, deafness, and attention training. SLC, 2007-

Charlotte L. Doyle

Psychology
B.A., Temple University. M.A., Ph.D., University of Michigan. A generalist in psychology with special interests in the creative process, psychological theory, and children’s literature. Recent articles on the process of writing fiction, creativity in children, children’s storytelling, and the definition of psychology. Books include Explorations in Psychology (a textbook) and six picture books: Hello Baby, Freddie’s Spaghetti, Where’s Bunny’s Mommy?, You Can’t Catch Me, Twins!, and Supermarket! An ABC book, The Bouncing Dancing Galloping ABC, is in press. Current holder of the Margot C. Bogert Distinguished Service Chair. SLC, 1966-
http://pages.slc.edu/~cdoyle

Elizabeth Johnston

Psychology
M.A., St. Andrew’s University, Scotland. D.Phil., Oxford University. Special interests in human perception of three-dimensional shape, binocular vision, and the perception of depth from motion; author of articles and book chapters on shape perception from stereopsis, sensorimotor integration, and combining depth information from different sources. SLC, 1992-
http://pages.slc.edu/~ebj

Sara Wilford

Director, Art of Teaching Graduate Program/Psychology
B.A., Sarah Lawrence College. M.S.Ed., Ed.M., Bank Street College of Education. Former early childhood and public elementary school teacher; workshop leader for seminars and conferences on early childhood education; member, editorial advisory board, Child magazine; contributor to Scholastic, Inc. publications; author, Tough Topics: How to Use Books in Talking with Children About Life Issues and Problems and What You Need to Know When Your Child Is Learning to Read. SLC, 1982-