Claire D.â¯Vallotton,â¯PhD, Associate Professor of Human Development & Family Studies, Michigan State University, is a scientist of human development, helping the world better understand babies, and support their parents and educators.â¯Claire is passionate about high-qualityâ¯teaching andâ¯leads the Collaborative for Understanding the Pedagogy of Infant/Toddler Development (CUPID), a group of more than 50 scholars across universities and other organizations that aims to better prepare the infant/toddler workforce.â¯
Holly Brophy-Herb,â¯PhD, Professor of Human Development & Family Studies, Michigan State University, studies how parents/teachers socialize very young children's emotions, and how emotion socialization practices relate to early social-emotional development.
Loriâ¯Roggman,â¯Ph.D.,â¯Professor of Human Development at Utah State University,â¯focuses her research on how parents support their childâs early development and how effective home visiting practices promote developmental parenting. She began her career as a home visitor, eventually developing a research program studying infant development in the context of caregivingâ¯relationships andâ¯evaluating home visitation impacts related to recommend practices.
Rachel Chazan-Cohen,â¯PhD, Visiting Professor, Tufts University, and Senior Research Fellow at Child Trends, is particularly interested in the biological, relational, and environmental factors influencing the development of at-risk children and, most especially, on the creation, evaluation, and refinement of intervention programs for families with infants and toddlers.â¯