Natasha Cabrera

Credentials - edited the Handbook of Father Involvement: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, with Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda. Before coming to Maryland, Cabrera was an expert in child development at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. While there, she studied child care, welfare, fathers, and child development. She is currently working on a number of papers related to the effect a father has on his children in a low-income family and has written extensively about fathering and the implications of father involvement on child development. Future research will look at the effects of father involvement as children transition from early childhood settings to elementary school. She plans to look at the involvement that parents, with a special attention to fathers, have with their children's school and their peers. She will also continue her work on understanding ethnic and racial differences among parents and their effects on child outcomes, by developing a project that looks at the change over time in father involvement among Latino fathers and the impact on children's outcomes.
Read More - Dad's Are Making a Difference This Father's Day (2007)
Contact - 301-405-2827 (office); ncabrera@umd.edu
Web Site - http://www.education.umd.edu/EDHD/faculty_cabrera.n.php
Also See - Prof. Cabrera's Population Center website.

Dr. Francine Favretto - professor and director, Center for Young Children, Department of Human Development, University of Maryland
Expertise -Dr. Favretto serves as the Director for Young Children, a laboratory preschool, in the College of Education. The Center has a triple mission of education of children, training pre-service teachers, and conducting research on how children learn and develop. Dr. Favretto is in charge of policy, procedures, and the overall operation of the Center. Her research interest is in conflict resolution and the development of appropriate curriculum for young children.

Credentials - Dr. Francine Favretto has her PhD in Human Development, and her Master's in Early Childhood Education from the University of Maryland. Her undergraduate degree is in Psychology from Hunter College. She is a member of the Department of Human Development at Maryland. Dr. Favretto has held the position as Director of Early Childhood Undergraduate Teacher Education at the University of Maryland. She has published articles, written chapters in edited books, and has presented at local and national professional conferences. Dr. Favretto has taught on the undergraduate and graduate level and mentored University students.
Contact - 301-405-3168 (office); ffavrett@umd.edu
Web Site - http://www.education.umd.edu/EDHD/CYC/index.htm

Charles Flatter - professor emeritus and former chair, Department of Human Development, University of Maryland Expertise - parenting; parent education; drug prevention education; self; self-esteem; family support, grandparenting, chores. Credentials - a nationally recognized expert in parenting and grandparenting, Prof. Flatter has written numerous articles on a wide range of issues to families. He writes a monthly "Ask the Expert" column for the Children's Television Workshop's Sesame Street Parents magazine. Contact - 301-405-2818 (office); cflatter@umd.edu Web Site - http://www.education.umd.edu/EDHD/faculty_flatter.c.php

Credentials - Internationally known expert on children's and adolescents' social development. Editor of the Handbook of Moral Development, consultant for Sesame Street Workshop, consultant for the U.S. Government's Federal Mediation and Conciliation Services, children and video games including development of the Coolschool anti-violence computer game, Youth Initiative program on conflict resolution, and other agencies; author of numerous articles and chapters on a wide range of issues including childhood morality, exclusion in childhood, prejudice, conflict resolution, and peer relationships.
Contact - 301-405-3176 (office); mkillen@umd.edu
Web Site - http://www.education.umd.edu/EDHD/faculty_killen.m.php

Credentials - director of the Center for Children, Relationships and Culture; Professor Rubin has written extensively about bullying and its effects on children. He is also director of the Laboratory for the Study of Child and Family Relationships. His book, The Friendship Factor won the 2002 National Parenting Publication "Gold Award." Dr. Rubin is a past-president of the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development (ISSBD).
Contact - 301-405-0458 (office); krubin@umd.edu
Web Site - http://www.education.umd.edu/EDHD/faculty_rubin.k.php