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Faculty

Charles M. Super

Professor

Department of Human Development & Family Studies
University of Connecticut
348 Mansfield Road, Unit 2058
Storrs, Connecticut 06269-2058

Phone: (860) 486-1831
Fax: (860) 486-3452
E-Mail: charles.super@uconn.edu
Joint Appointment: Department of Pediatrics

Curriculum Vitae

Educational Background:

Ph.D., Developmental Psychology, Harvard University, 1972
Internship in Clinical Child Psychology, Judge Baker Children's Center, Boston, M.A., 1981-85
B.A., cum laude, Psychology, Yale University, 1966

Selected Professional Accomplishments:

  • Connecticut Friend of Families and Consumers, presented by the Connecticut Affiliate of the American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences.

  • Distinguished Service Award, University of Connecticut School of Family Studies Alumni Association.

Research Interests:

Cultural Regulation of Human Development, Particularly Biological, Cognitive, and Emotional Development During Infancy and Childhood; Parental and Professional Ethnotheories of Child Development and Behavior; Interventions to Promote the Physical and Mental Health of Children and Families; Research Methods Appropriate for Comparative and Culturally Based Research.

Selected Publications :

  • Super, C. M.(2005). The globalization of developmental psychology. In D. Pillemer S. H. White (Eds.), Developmental psychology and social change (pp. 11-33). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

  • Super, C. M., Harkness, S. (2003). The metaphors of development. Human Development, 46(1), 3-23.

  • Super, C. M., Harkness, S. (2002). Culture structures the environment for development. Human Development, 45(4), 270-274.

  • Harkness, S., Super, C. M. (2001). Culture and parenting. In M. H. Bornstein (Ed.), Handbook of parenting, 2nd ed. (pp 253-280). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

  • Harkness, S., Super, C. M. (2000). The developmental niche: A model for culture and child development. In L. M. Pachter (Ed.), Child health in the multicultural environment, Report of the Thirty-First Ross Roundtable on Critical Approaches to Common Pediatric Problems (pp. 50-59). Columbus, Ohio: Ross Products Division, Abbott Laboratories.

Selected Presentations:

  • Super, C. M.; Harkness, S.; Rha, J.-H.; Huitrón, B.; Blom, M. J. M. The stability of infant reactivity in four cultural groups. Paper presented in Symposium entitled “The cultural organization of rest, arousal, stimulation, and activity” (S. Harkness J.-H. Rha, organizers) at the Biannual Meetings of the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development, Melbourne, Australia, July, 2006.

  • Super, C. M. The cultural regulation of development. Invited address to the Postgraduate Institute of Child Study, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. March, 2006.

  • Super, C. M. The developmental niche. Invited presentation for Conférence Universitaire de Suisse Occidentale (CUSO) on “Ethnotheories in Education” (Pierre Dasen, organizer), Charmey, Switzerland. March, 2006.

  • Super, C. M. How culture structures early development. Keynote address, 25th Conference of the Society for Reproductive and Infant Psychology, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. September, 2005.

  • Super, C. M. Harkness, S. The developmental niche in cross-cultural theory. Invited at Seoul National University, Korea. May, 2005.