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March 31, 2008
RU-CCCS TO OFFER INFANT/TODDLER CREDENTAL  - FALL 08 new

The Rutgers Camden Center for Children and Childhood Studies will offer the New Jersey State Infant Toddler Credential starting in the Fall of 2008. Credentialing coursework will be available for both credit and non-credit options at the Rutgers-Camden campus, as well as additional southern region satellite sites. The NJ Infant/Toddler Credential represents a significant professional advancement opportunity for infant and toddler professionals and para-professionals. The credential is designed to enhance individual knowledge, skills and practice in both center based and family early childhood education programs. The official launch of the credential was sponsored by the Coalition of Infant Toddler Educators (CITE) and the Professional Impact New Jersey (PINJ) at CITE’s March 08 conference.

For more information or to reserve your space for the fall, please contact Angela Connor or Ingrid Campbell at (856) 225-6739.
 

 
Jan 22, 2008
Spring 2008 Research Seminar in Childhood Studies
 

Hope You Didn't Miss This:
Apr 8, 2008
Rutgers-Camden doctoral student, Filipino poet, at Barnes & Noble
Tuesday, April 8, 2008 at 6:30pm
During National Poetry Month, Lara Saguisag, a Rutgers-Camden CS PhD student and poet read from her recently published book “Children of Two Seasons: Poems for Young People,” during Rutgers-Camden’s Cappuccino Academy at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 8. Saguisag’s free reading was held at Barnes & Noble, located at 200 West Route 70 in Marlton. > about Lara
 

 
Mar 5, 2008
2008 CCCS Speaker Series
Piercing the Myths: Girls, Aggression and Violence
Girls are becoming increasingly more involved in violent activities, shattering stereotypes of girls as “sugar and spice and everything nice.” The speakers in this series explored girls’ involvement in violent and aggressive activities and discussed some motives behind their actions. >>> more

All events took place from 4:30 – 6:30 pm
in the Rutgers-Camden Campus Center, Conference Room West-ABC.
326 Penn Street
Light refreshments were served


Professional development hours available upon request.
>>>download program schedule pdf

 
 
Jan 10, 2008
Volunteer Opportunity
Lajee Center’s Seventh International Work Camp
Lajee Center International Work CampInterested in an unique volunteer opportunity? Live with Palestinians, work with them, talk to them, play with them, sing and dance with them, hear their stories, see their reality.
Lajee Centre International Work Camp was set up eight years ago by a group of local volunteers to provide the children of the Camp with constructive, educational and enjoyable activities to help alleviate the difficult conditions under which they live and to assist in developing their skills, knowledge and talents. >>> more
 

 
June 25, 2007

Applications accepted for Associate/Full Professor, Childhood Studies

The Department of Childhood Studies, Rutgers University, Camden, New Jersey seeks an outstanding scholar whose research interests and projects address the lives or contexts of children and childhood. Disciplinary affiliation is of less importance than the quality of candidate's research and a demonstrated appreciation for interdisciplinary approaches to the study of children and childhood. The position is open until filled, but completed applications received by October 15, 2007 will receive fullest consideration.


 
March 5, 2007

New Reference Book on Childhood Studies

Scholarly Resources for Children and Childhood Studies is the title of a new book by Vibiana Bowman (CCCS associate and reference librarian, Robeson Library, Rutgers-Camden)

bookIn Scholarly Resources for Children and Childhood Studies (Scarecrow Press, 2007) Ms. Bowman has drawn together contributions from some of the leading scholars in the interdisciplinary field of children and childhood studies (CCS).

As the field of CCS continues to evolve in the upcoming years, Scholarly Resources for Children and Childhood Studies will serve as an excellent stepping stone for those just entering the area. Vibiana Bowman is also the editor of The Plagiarism Plague: A Resource Guide and CD-ROM Tutorial for Educators and Librarians.>>> more


January 25, 2007

New 2007 Lecture Series in March and April:
Rethinking Childhood: Juveniles and the Justice System

Despite the fact that the overall rate of juvenile crime is declining, children are being imprisoned and confined at alarming rates, with minority youth in particular making up the majority of incarcerated youth around the country.  Why is this the case? This speaker’s series seeks to shed light on the issues surrounding juvenile incarceration and explore new ways of dealing with youth in the justice system. >>> more
This series is co-sponsored by
The Rutgers University-Camden Center for Children and Childhood Studies
and
The Rutgers University School of Law Children's Justice Clinic
>>> download a Description of the Programpdf icon
 

Juy 12, 2006
Now Accepting Applications for MA and PhD Programs
The Rutgers-Camden Childhood Studies Program is now accepting applications for the MA and PhD programs in Childhood Studies. Classes will start in the Fall 2007 semester. Childhood Studies is the theoretical and methodological study of children and childhood within historical, interdisciplinary, multi-cultural, and global contexts.  The degree programs prepare scholars capable of innovative interdisciplinary research in childhood studies and leaders in child-related social practice and policy.
>>> Apply online

CCCS NEWS
 
March 31, 2008
RU-CCCS TO OFFER INFANT/TODDLER CREDENTAL  - FALL 08 new

The Rutgers Camden Center for Children and Childhood Studies will offer the New Jersey State Infant Toddler Credential starting in the Fall of 2008. Credentialing coursework will be available for both credit and non-credit options at the Rutgers-Camden campus, as well as additional southern region satellite sites. The NJ Infant/Toddler Credential represents a significant professional advancement opportunity for infant and toddler professionals and para-professionals. The credential is designed to enhance individual knowledge, skills and practice in both center based and family early childhood education programs. The official launch of the credential was sponsored by the Coalition of Infant Toddler Educators (CITE) and the Professional Impact New Jersey (PINJ) at CITE’s March 08 conference.

For more information or to reserve your space for the fall, please contact Angela Connor or Ingrid Campbell at (856) 225-6739.
 
March 27, 2008
The Schumann Fund for New Jersey Awards $100,000 to the
Rutgers-Camden Center for Children and Childhood Studies
new

The grant will support RU-CCCS’ Professional Development Pathways Initiative for Early Childhood Education in Camden, as well as the new PK-3 Continuum Project in partnership with the Camden City Board of Education. Both projects are under the leadership of Angela Connor, Senior Program Director and head of the Early Childhood Education Division.

>>> News Release (click on one of the logos) word icon pdf icon

January 31, 2008
Alumni Pursue PhD's in Childhood Studies at Rutgers-Camden
The article highlights alumni who are returning to Rutgers University to enroll in Rutgers–Camden's doctoral program in childhood studies, the nation's first program of its kind. Cathy Donovan interviewed a number of students and faculty in the program, including, Diane Marano, CLAW'78, who "recently retired from the Camden County Prosecutor's Office after 25 years as an assistant prosecutor and 21 years as chief of the juvenile unit. Though she was passionate about her career, she made the transition in order to enroll this year in Rutgers–Camden's doctoral program in childhood studies."
>>> read more about alumni in the PhD program at Rutgers-Camden in the Alumni News

January 22, 2008
Rutgers Launches Childhood Studies Program
The Rutgers-Camden PhD program in Childhood Studies, the first in the Nation, was featured in the Courier Post (Jan 22, 08). The article highlights the program and its current pool of students "who are using their intellectual skills and affinity for children to tackle some big problems."
>>> read the full article online

January 20, 2008
Professor Dan Cook Discusses "Princess" Culture

Dan CookDr. Dan Cook, associate professor of childhood studies at Rutgers University—Camden, addressed the Disney princess culture and its impact on today’s young girls during Cappuccino Academy at Barnes & Noble in Marlton at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 31.  This lecture is part of Cappuccino Academy, a monthly series of free public lectures delivered by members of the Rutgers-Camden community at Barnes & Noble.  For information, call (856) 225-6627.  

Dr. Cook was also recently interviewed for "Marketplace," (FOX 29 TV, Philadelphia, Dec 11, 2007) about the role of targeted marketing to kids, ages 9-14, called "tween." >>> view the streaming video

Dr. Cook's research on "princess culture" was highlighted in Rutgers Focus (Feb 6, 2008). The article points to troubling aspects of merchandizing for children, especially girls. >>> read the article


September 28, 2007
Rutgers-Camden English Professor Discusses Harry Potter
Dr. J.T. Barbarese was interviewed by Fox News on whether the Harry Potter series increased children's reading rates. How children handle the death of a major character is also discussed.
>>> view the streaming video in Windows Media Player (3:58 min)
>>> view the streaming video in Real Player (3:54 min)

October 06, 2006

CCCS and Barnes and Noble to Partner for Children’s Book Week Celebration and Fundraiser

Book Fair Fundraiser
at Barnes and Noble in Moorestown, NJ
Kyle
On Friday, November 17th, in conjunction with the Children's Book Week, the Rutgers University
Center for Children and Childhood Studies
partnered with Barnes and Noble for a BOOK FAIR FUNDRAISER at Barnes and Noble in Moorestown, NJ
from 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Kyle Jakubowski

The CCCS Book Fair Fundraising event included an imaginative 11:00 a.m. storytelling performance by Lamont Dixon as “The Cat in the Hat,” and an exceptional story time journey with Kyle Jakubowski beginning at 7:00 p.m. Kyle Jakubowski (see above), Rutgers-Camden alum (CCAS 2005), and storyteller for the Rutgers Camden Center for the Arts performed selections based on the stories highlighted in the exhibition, “Picture Stories: A Celebration of African-American Illustrators” at the Stedman Gallery, which will ran October 9 – December 2, 2006.

Dr. SeussLamont Dixon (left) also captivated an audience of preschool children at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Child Development Center in Camden City in the afternoon.
For more information on this event, please contact
Becky Heritage at (856) 225-6739

>>>read more >>>print Bookfair Vouchers
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October 6, 2006
CCCS Co-sponsoring a Reception at the Stedman Gallery
Stedman Gallery Exhibit Picture Stories- a Celebration of African American Illustrators Oct 9 - Dec 2

The reception for this exhibit is Friday, October 20th from 5:00pm-7:00pm in the Stedman Gallery. One of the artist from the exhibition, Adjoa Burrowes, will be on hand to speak.
>>> Event Postcard (front) and (back) pdf icon

For more information, please contact Nyeema Watson 

September 22, 2006
Rutgers University Center for Children and Childhood Studies Receives Major Grant from the William Penn Foundation

Students representing Camden city’s Early Care and Education community arrived on the Rutgers Camden campus this fall for the start of the third phase of the Camden Professional Development Pathways Initiative. This program, developed by Senior Program Director, Angela Connor was recently awarded a two-year grant from the William Penn Foundation.
>>> read more
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July 11, 2006
Two New Faculty Join Childhood Studies Program

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Daniel Cook and Dr. Lynne Vallone will be joining the Childhood Studies program. Dr. Daniel Cook is the author of The Commodification of Childhood: The Children's Clothing Industry and the Rise of the Child Consumer and Children's Consumer Culture (forthcoming), editor of Symbolic Childhood and  The Lived Experiences of  Public Consumption (forthcoming), and a number of articles and chapters on children in American culture.  Dr. Cook received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, and will be coming from the University of Illinois. Dr. Lynne Vallone is author of Disciplines of Virtue and Becoming Victoria, and co-editor of The Norton Anthology of Children's Literature,  Virtual Gender: Fantasies of Subjectivity and Embodiment, and The Girl's Own, Cultural Histories of the Anglo-American Girl, 1830-1915.  Dr. Vallone will be coming from Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas.

>>> Childhood Studies Program website


May 2, 2006
Concerned Black Nurses of Newark honor Rutgers College of Nursing Professor and RU-Camden CCCS Associate Robert Atkins

Concerned Black Nurses AwardBob Atkins, Assistant Professor of Nursing, RU-Newark received the Research Nurse of the Year Award by The Concerned Black Nurses of Newark at the 24th Annual Scholarship and Awards Luncheon on Saturday, May 6th, 2006. Atkins was being recognized for his research on the effect of stress in the home and neighborhood environment influence on the health and development of children and adolescents.
>>> For more information, please visit
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-05/rtsu-cbn050206.php


February 10, 2006
Rutgers to Launch Nation's First Childhood Studies Degree-Granting Programs at its Camden Campus
The nation’s first doctoral degree-granting program in childhood studies will be launched at Rutgers University’s Camden campus beginning fall 2007. The creation of a childhood studies department at Rutgers-Camden, which will award bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees, was approved by the Rutgers Board of Governors during its meeting today on the Newark campus. The program awaits endorsement by the New Jersey Council of College Presidents. While a handful of undergraduate and master’s programs in childhood studies exist in the United States and Great Britain, the Rutgers program will be the first to offer a doctorate in childhood studies.
>>> read more
(Source: Rutgers University Press Release)

January 11, 2006
Don't Miss: CCCS "Meet The Authors" series

In March and April 2006, CCCS brought to campus another group of writers and authors to share their perspectives on childhood. The new Remembering Childhood: Meet the Authors, Hear Their Stories series is free and open to the public. No registration required. Some events took place in conjunction with the 18th annual Rutgers Camden Writers' Conference on Saturday, April 8, 2006.

For more information, directions to the campus, and to the Camden Children's Garden, click here to download a brochure.

 
May 2, 2006
CCCS Associate, Ted Goertzel, presents Keynote Address
CCCS Associate Dr. Ted Goertzel (Sociology) will give a keynote address at the Montana Association of Gifted and Talented Education conference to be held April 27 - May 2, 2006
>>> for more information, download the Conference Program
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May 5, 2006
Conference at Rutgers-Camden:
Race, Class and Education: Gaining New Insights

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September 14, 2005
Rutgers-Camden Launches Search for Faculty in Childhood Studies
Rutgers University seeks three interdisciplinary scholars studying children for a new Program in Childhood Studies based at its Camden Campus in the fall of 2006.
Candidates can learn more about the Campus and the Program in Childhood Studies by contacting Dr. Daniel Hart, who is guiding the Program through its first year.

December 12, 2005
CCCS Professional Pathways Program funded
The Schumann Fund for New Jersey has approved a grant in the amount of $80,000 for the Professional Pathways Childcare Training program. The grant will partially fund the following program components: 1) Peer Mentor Training for Childcare Centers, 2) Infant/Toddler Credential, 3) the Development and Implementation of a Director's Academy II, and 4) the first comprehensive CDA Program for Family Childcare Providers in Camden city. 

August 1, 2005
Camden STARR Program Receives Grant Funds
The Camden STARR (Sports Teaching Athletics Responsibility and Resiliency) Program, administered by Dr. Dan Hart (CCCS Director, Professor of Psychology and Associate Dean, Rutgers-Camden College of Arts and Sciences) and Dr. Robert Atkins (Assistant Professor of Nursing ) has received two grants to support their Camden based youth program.

Drs. Hart and Atkins received $8,000 from the Campbell Soup Foundation and Dr. Hart and Nyeema C. Watson received $35,000 from the New Jersey Department of Human Services.

The Camden STARR Program is working with approx. 80-100 African American, Latino, and Southeastern Asian adolescents, to foster the development of responsibility and resiliency in young teenagers through sports, community service, fundraising activities, and education.
For more information on the STARR Program please visit http://children.camden.rutgers.edu/STARR/index.html

June 1, 2005
The Center Has Two New Staff Members!     
Please welcome two new youth associates, Wilbert "Bill" Shively and Calvin "CJ" Lewis, who joined the Center in April.
Bill, a student at Hatch Middle School in Camden and CJ a student at Camden County Technical School in Sicklerville, have come on board to assist with various center projects and have enlightened the office with their wit, humor and charm.
click on image to enlarge

Nov 17, 2004
Award to Encourage Science Fair Participation in Camden City and Salem County

Dr. Bill Whitlow received a 5-year $1.15 million grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). This grant is for "SPARC 2000+: Science Fair Drug Abuse Science Literacy"

>>> more


CCCS EVENTS
 
January 22, 2008
Research Seminar in Childhood Studies - Spring 2008
All presentations are on Wednesdays at 12:10-1:10 pm
in Armitage Hall, 3rd Floor Faculty Lounge.
 
Feb 6
Special Joint Event with the First Year Seminar
Department of English

Candice Kaup (Rutgers-Camden, English)
“What's the Harm of a Diary: Feminine Silence in Harry Potter” 
and
Peter Bryant (Rutgers-Camden, English)
“Trauma through Form in Art Spiegelman's Maus” 


March 5 Bruno Vanobbergen (Ghent University, CS Visiting Scholar)
“Sea hospitals and the hygiene offensive: a professionalization of the medical science or the commodification of the weak and disabled child?”


April 9 Carol Singley (Rutgers-Camden, English)
“Building a Nation, Building a Family: Adoption and American Literature”

April 30 Tetsuji Yamada (Rutgers-Camden, Economics)
“Healthcare Service Accessibility for Children and Healthcare Needs for Children under the State Children's Health Insurance Program”
   
 
 

February 15, 2007

The Center for Children and Childhood Studies
presents a CCCS Seminar with
Dr. Kathleen Jones

Dying Young: Stories from the History of American Youth Suicide

Tuesday, February 27, 2007
12:20 - 1:20 pm - Lower Level, 405-407 Cooper Street
Lunch will be provided.

bookDr. Jones (Associate Professor, Department of History, Virginia Tech University) specializes in U.S. women’s history, history of medicine, history of childhood and her current research focuses on youth suicide, youth culture and the history of psychiatry in the early twentieth century.

Dr. Jones is the author of Taming the Troublesome Child: American Families, Child Guidance, and the Limits of Psychiatric Authority (Harvard University Press, 1999; paperback edition, 2002) which examines the development, in the first half of the twentieth century, of a psychiatric explanation of juvenile misbehavior. >>> more


January 25, 2007

New 2007 Lecture Series:
Rethinking Childhood: Juveniles and the Justice System

Despite the fact that the overall rate of juvenile crime is declining, children are being imprisoned and confined at alarming rates, with minority youth in particular making up the majority of incarcerated youth around the country.  Why is this the case? This speaker’s series seeks to shed light on the issues surrounding juvenile incarceration and explore new ways of dealing with youth in the justice system. >>> more
This series is co-sponsored by
The Rutgers University-Camden Center for Children and Childhood Studies
and
The Rutgers University School of Law Children's Justice Clinic
>>> download a Description of the Programpdf icon

October 6, 2006
CCCS Co-sponsoring a Reception at the Stedman Gallery
Stedman Gallery Exhibit Picture Stories- a Celebration of African American Illustrators Oct 9 - Dec 2

The reception for this exhibit is Friday, October 20th from 5:00pm-7:00pm in the Stedman Gallery. One of the artist from the exhibition, Adjoa Burrowes, will be on hand to speak.
>>> Event Postcard (front) and (back) pdf icon

March 30, 2006
Speaker on Child Labor Practices in East Africa on March 30th

child laborLet Children be Children: Lewis Wickes Hine’s Crusade Against Child Labor will be on display at the Stedman Gallery from Monday, March 13,2006 – Saturday, May 6, 2006. Sociologist Lewis Wickes Hines (American, 1874-1940) photography captured his concern for children, immigrants and the working-class. The exhibition of 55 prints offers a revealing look at child labor practices at the onset of American industrialization and the circumstances that poor working children endured well into the late 1930’s. 
>>> more about the exhibition

Reception and Discussion –Thursday, March 30, 2006
Stedman Gallery - 5:30 pm – 7:30pm
Dr. Philip Kilbride, Professor of Anthropology at Bryn Mawr College discussed child labor practices in East Africa.

 

January 11, 2006

CCCS "Meet The Authors" series is planned for Spring 2006

Meet the Author: Kirsten SmithIn March and April 2006, CCCS will bring to campus another group of writers and authors to share their perspectives on childhood. The new Remembering Childhood: Meet the Authors, Hear Their Stories series is free and open to the public. Some events will take place in conjunction with the 18th annual Rutgers Camden Writers' Conference on Saturday, April 8, 2006.

For more information, directions to the campus, and to the Camden Children's Garden, click here to download a brochure. PDF icon logo

 
May 5, 2006
Mark your Calendar: May 5th, 2006
Race, Class and Education: Gaining New Insights
converence flier image This day-long conference at the Gordon Theater at Rutgers-Camden explores legal and social science perspectives on educational inequality
>>> more
Location: Gordon Theater, Rutgers-Camden
 

January 17 - February 25, 2006
Creative Achievements: Visual Poetry

Artworks in a variety of media created by students who have participated in the Visual Poetry program are exhibited. Schools that have participated include several in Camden city as well as other New Jersey schools and after school programs.  Reception: Saturday, February 11, 2006, 5:00 - 7:00 pm
For more information, visit the RUCCA website

November 2, 2005
NICHHD Speaker At Rutgers Camden
On Thursday, Nov. 10, from 12:15 - 1:15, Dr. David LaRooy from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHHD) will be presenting his work on child witness testimony. His presentation, "Talking it over, and over, and over: repeated interviews with young children,"  will be held in the large conference room of Armitage, Rm. 337.  Both faculty and students are invited to attend, and refreshments will be provided. This talk is being sponsored by the Department of Psychology.
 
August 2005
The Rutgers-Camden STARR Program took Camden teens to a summer camp in Vermont, went hiking in the White Mountains, and canoeing in the Pinelands >>> more

July 29, 2005
The Camden Campaign for Children's Literacy honored the second cohort of graduates from the Child Development Associate (CDA) training program at the CDA Candidates Recognition Ceremony at Rutgers-Camden.
>>> more

June 2004
Dr. Bill Whitlow (psychology) represented CCCS through his AMULET program at the San Juan Bautista Health/Family and Culture Day (Saturday, June 12) at Dudley Grange in East Camden. He demonstrated Lead Chek ampules for testing for the presence of lead in residences.

1/14/2005
EXPO 2005: Camden Students Flock to Science Fair
The 10th annual SPARC Allied Health Sciences EXPO brought middle and high school students together with allied health science professionals to inform and inspire the students about careers in their fields. More than 45 representatives, from 16 organizations and institutions involved in allied health sciences, came to our campus to present a variety of careers in health science fields.

 
Publications
 
April 2, 2008
CCCS Research with Camden Youth highlighted in Anthropology News
Anthropology News Online: Children and Childhood Issue - April AN features In Focus commentaries on challenges and transformations in the anthropology of children and childhood, as well as additional articles relating to this theme.
From April 1–April 30, 2008 visit http://www.aaanet.org/publications/articles.cfm and share your thoughts on the Anthropology News blog at http://anthropologynews.blogspot.com/.
After April 30, the series will be archived at AnthroSource and AN Archives.

There is an article by Myra Bluebond-Langner about the work she and Bob Atkins are doing with Camden youth who are involved in research.

 
September 22, 2006

The Rutgers University Press Book Series in Childhood Studies, edited by Dr. Myra Bluebond Langner, has released a new book in the series entitled, Girls in Trouble with the Law by Laurie Schaffner
Girls in Trouble with the Law takes us to the heart of life for adolescent girls in secure juvenile facilities across the United States. In bringing the voices of court-involved young women into the public conversation about youth crime, adolescent sexuality, and community violence, Laurie Schaffner’s vibrant ethnography offers new views of youth experiences with racism, poverty, violence, and sexuality as well as a critique of the ways gender and justice are produced in the juvenile legal system.

Laurie Schaffner is an assistant professor in the criminal justice and sociology department of the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her previous books include Teenage Runaways: Broken Hearts and "Bad Attitudes".

http://rutgerspress.rutgers.edu/acatalog/__Girls_in_Trouble_with_the_Law_2549.html#3645

This is the seventh book released in the series. For additional information on the series please visit:
http://children.camden.rutgers.edu/RU-book_series.htm


April 6, 2006
The Rutgers University Press Book Series in Childhood Studies has released a new book in the series entitled, Imagined Orphans: Poor Families, Child Welfare, and Contested Citizenship in London by Lydia Murdoch.

Imagined Orphans explores the discrepancy between the representation and reality of children’s experiences within welfare institutions in Victorian London. Reformers portrayed children who resided in institutions as either orphaned or abandoned by unworthy parents, much like Oliver Twist, the archetypal workhouse child. Imagined Orphans demonstrates that most institutionalized children had at least one living parent, that parents turned to welfare services as solutions to short-term crises rather than as permanent depositories for children, and that many parents struggled to maintain contact with their children during the period of institutionalization. The book documents the placer of the poor in Victorian welfare practices and the contested, class-based nature of citizenship in the late nineteenth century.
 
Lydia Murdoch is an assistant professor of history at Vassar College.

To purchase this book please visit http://rutgerspress.rutgers.edu/acatalog/__Imagined_Orphans_2258.html

This is the sixth book released in the series. For additional information on the series please visit:
http://children.camden.rutgers.edu/RU-book_series.htm

January 19, 2006
Jon'a Meyer, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice and Director of the Graduate Program in CJ, published "Unintended Consequences for the Youngest Victims: The Role of Law in Encouraging Neonaticide from the Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries" in Criminal Justice Studies: A Critical Journal of Crime, Law and Society, Volume 18, Number 3, pages 237 - 254.

October 19, 2005
We are delighted to report that Rutgers University Press, Childhood Studies Series book, Race in the Schoolyard: Negotiating the Color Line in Classrooms and Communities by Amanda E. Lewis won the Critics’ Choice Award by the American Educational Studies Association, 2005.

October 1, 2005

Cati Coe, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, has just released her book, Dilemmas of Culture in African Schools: Youth, Nationalism and the Transformation of Knowledge, published by University of Chicago Press.

Book Description

In working to build a sense of nationhood, Ghana has focused on many social engineering projects, the most meaningful and fascinating of which has been the state's effort to create a national culture through its schools. As Cati Coe reveals in Dilemmas of Culture in African Schools, this effort has created an unusual paradox: while Ghana encourages its educators to teach about local cultural traditions, those traditions are transformed as they are taught in school classrooms. The state version of culture now taught by educators has become objectified and