 Sara Harkness is a Professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies and Director of the Center for the Study of Culture, Health and Human Development at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. She received her Ph.D. in Social Anthropology at Harvard University, where she also earned a Master of Public Health degree and was an NIH post-doctoral fellow in psychology. Her research focuses on the cultural construction of parenting, child development and health. Together with an international group of colleagues, she has carried out research on children and families in Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia, and the United States. Her current projects involve the use of mixed methods in order to learn how children's learning, self-regulation and arousal are culturally channeled through parenting beliefs and practices. Dr. Harkness is also the director of GEAR UP Alliance for Success, an intervention project for youth, teachers and families in Hartford.
Dr. Harkness was Editor of the journal Ethos (Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology) from 2000-2005 and is a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Behavioral Development. She has served on the grant review committee of the Maternal and Child Health Bureau as well as several NIH and NSF review panels and advisory boards.
Selected publications:
Harkness, S., & Super, C. M.. Eds. (1996) Parents= Cultural Belief Systems: Their Origins, Expressions and Consequences. New York: Guilford Publications.
Harkness, S., Raeff, C., & Super, C. M., Eds. (2000). Variability in the Social Construction of the Child. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, No. 87.
Harkness, S., Moscardino, U., Rios Bermudez, M., Zylicz, P.O., Welles-Nystrom, B., Blom, M., Parmar, P., Axia, G., & Super, C.M. (2006). Mixed methods in international collaborative research: The experiences of the International Study of Parents, Children, and Schools. Cross-Cultural Research, 40(1), 65-82.
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