We're inviting short papers for our special blog series: "Childhood & Migration." Submissions due by 31 January, 2024. The series, jointly published by The Childhood, Law & Policy Network (CLPN) & TheCCYSC, is co-edited by our members Adrienne Lee Atterberry (Union College) & Karina Ruiz (UC Santa Cruz).

Last year, our symposium had over 70 presenters and over 400 registered attendees from around the world, making it one of the largest annual events for girls’ studies scholars to connect and share their work! 🤯 Don’t miss this great opportunity, submit your abstracts by Feb 4th!

Call for articles: "Bringing young children into conversations about their lives." For a special issue of Children & Society, co-edited by our member mohammed alruzzi | محمد الرزي. Abstracts due by 29 March.

Listen to Professor VNAdams and @stbbarnes new podcast episode! "Art, Activism, and Advocacy: A Conversation with Michelle Browder" podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rai…

Love when course assignments turn into publications! Read Childhood Studies PhD student Elizabeth Nelson's review of The Disabled Child: Memoirs of a Normal Future, by Amanda Apgar. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ch…

Another new podcast episode from VNAdams and @stbbarnes with Dr. Alvin Thomas, PhD. - Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bla…

Registration for "The Mundanity of Girlhood" is now live! Register here: eventbrite.com/e/the-mundanit…

Yesterday the amazing @HalleSingh defended her dissertation, Girlhood After Dark: Nighttime, Leisure, and the Temporality of Gender. You all need to read this work! It's been a tremendous honor to chair this fabulous dissertation. Congrats, Halle! You're a star. ✨

We are so excited to welcome @MarilisaJimenez !

Join Society for Research in Child Development on July 23, 2024, from 11am-12:15 pm EDT for a webinar discussing research on child development when living in and displaced from conflict. Featuring Childhood Studies Professor VNAdams Register today 📅: bit.ly/4cVkZNk

Naomi Fair joins the Department of Childhood studies as an assistant professor. Her research interests include K-12 education and discrimination in schooling. Please join us in welcoming Dr. Fair to Rutgers–Camden!

Join Childhood Studies for the next event in our Centering Black Childhoods Series: Collecting and Archiving Visions of Black Childhoods, Oct 22, 4:30-6:30pm at Rutgers–Camden. Check out this amazing line-up of speakers! childhood.camden.rutgers.edu/events/collect…

We invite you to Centering Black Childhoods: Collecting and Archiving Visions of Black Childhoods on Tuesday, October 22, from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in the Campus Center’s Multi-Purpose Room. 🔗 Registration is required for this free event: buff.ly/3NwI9z4

📢 Exciting news! The graduate students of the Department of Childhood Studies have launched an Instagram page! 🎉 Follow us for insights into research, events, and student life. 📸 Follow us: instagram.com/childhoodruc?i…

Phew! I am finally defending my PhD dissertation next week! If you are interested in Indigenous childhoods and want to learn more about my research on Adivasi children's lives, the presentation will be public and via Zoom. DM me for the link!

As expected, Dr. Kate Cairns Cairns is deeply missed in Camden and the Childhood Studies department. Her contributions, however, will always remain. Wishing her all the best in the next chapter of her journey! 💙 #ChildhoodStudies #Gratitude