Inclusive Early Childhood Ed. Faculty

Below you will find a listing of faculty within the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences. These faculty have primary responsibility for the coursework required for the Inclusive Early Childhood Education career path. Click on the highlighted names for a more detailed description of faculty member interests and for contact information.

Susan Churchill, Ph.D., Associate Professor. Research Interests: Child development; Head Start families; Transition to public school; Influence of temperament

Carolyn P. Edwards, Ph.D., Professor, Psychology and Family and Consumer Sciences. Research Interests: Child development and early childhood education; Child care quality; Cultural contexts of child development; International early childhood programs (Italy, China, Korea, Norway); Parental cultural beliefs about children's development.

Mary Gabriel, Lecturer, Child Development Lab. Professional Interests: International study of children, families, schools, and communities; Family strengths and resiliency.

Julie Jones-Branch, Lecturer, Child Development Lab.

Jennifer Leeper Miller , Lecturer, Child Development Lab.

Helen H. Raikes, Ph.D., Professor. Research Interests: Intervention programs for vulnerable children, 0-5; Antecedents to language and literacy development; Parent-child and teacher-child relationships and their relations to oucomes; Optimizing parenting practices.

Michelle Rupiper, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer and Director of the Child Development Lab. Research Interests: Developmental changes in verbal and imaginal mnemonic techniques for serial recall; Assessment of preschool children; Quality, compensation and job satisfaction of early educators.

Julia Torquati, Ph.D., Associate Professor. Research Interests: Human development infancy to young adulthood, specifically on process of risk, resilience, and adaptation; Poverty and homelessness; Environmental education.

Pauline Zeece, Ph.D., Professor. Research Interests: Child development; Early Childhood Education; Head Start program evaluation and outcomes.