Search: early childhood education
Joan Ershler
Program director, Waisman Early Childhood Program
Expert on early childhood development and education, services to young children with special needs
Cigdem Unal
Director, UW-Madison Office of Campus Child Care and Family Resources
I am an expert on early childhood education, preschool administration and leadership.
Amy Wagner
Executive Director of the UW Child Development Lab
Expert on child development, early childhood education, and special education, including treatment of young children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Travis Wright
Associate professor, Department of Counseling Psychology; Faculty director of the Morgridge Center for Public Service
Expert on schooling in highly-stressed communities; teaching students who have experienced trauma; student-teacher relationships; early childhood education
Amy Claessens
Associate Professor, Gulbrandsen Distinguish Chair in Early Childhood Education, Educational Policy Studies
Expert on child academic and socio-emotional development in early childhood settings including child care, preschool, and kindergarten.
Sarah Short
Assistant professor and Dorothy King Chair in Educational Psychology, Center for Healthy Minds
Expert in neuroscience and early childhood brain development studying the role of stress and adversity on mental and physical well-being.
Heather Kirkorian
Professor, Human Development and Family Studies
Expert on infant/child development and the impact of screen media on infants, young children, and families
Pamela McGranahan
Associate Clinical Professor / DNP Program Director
Three decades of nursing experience in public health, racial disparities, infant mortality, trauma-informed care, and the impact of childhood adversity and trauma on lifelong health
Tova Walsh
Assistant Professor, School of Social Work
Expert on risk and protective factors that influence early parenting and early child development, and parenting interventions in early childhood
Roseanne Clark
Associate professor, psychiatry
Expertise in postpartum depression, parent-child relationships, and emotional and behavioral disturbances in infancy and early childhood
Geoffrey Brown
Professor, Human Development and Family Studies
Expert on parenting, early child development, fathering, attachment, infancy, and family relationships
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James Li
Associate Professor; Department of Psychology; Waisman Center
ADHD, antisocial behaviors, child development, genetics, parental and social influences, gene-environment interplay
Thomas Dale
Professor, art history
Expert on Early Christian, Byzantine and medieval European art, global Middle Ages, and medieval race
Sarah Clayton
Professor, Anthropology
Archaeologist specializing in everyday life in early cities; migration; rural-urban interaction; community formation and persistence. Director of the Chicoloapan Viejo Archaeology Project in central Mexico.
Eric Carlsson
Teaching Professor, History
Historian of early modern Europe, with expertise in the Enlightenment and the history of Christianity
Christy Clark-Pujara
Assistant Professor, Afro-American Studies
Expert on early African American History (1619-1865)
Dipesh Navsaria
Professor of Pediatrics; Clinical Professor of Human Development and Family Studies
Expert on early literacy in children, child health advocacy & policy, public health, medical education, and early care and education.
Hrissanthi (Chris) Ikonomidou
Professor, neurology
Expert on brain injuries in early life, impact of sedative and anticonvulsant drugs on the developing brain
Michael Shank
Professor and chair, history of science
Expert on the history of early science to Newton
Sterling Johnson
Professor, medicine, geriatrics and gerontology
Clinical neuropsychologist and expert in early identification of Alzheimer’s disease through advanced brain imaging
Craig Albers
Associate professor, educational psychology; principal investigator, WCER; chair, prevention sciences Program
Expert on educating students classified as English language learners; expert on prevention and early intervention education programs
Steven Hutchinson
Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Expert on Cervantes, Golden Age Spanish literature, early modern Mediterranean world
Ronald Troxel
Distinguished lecturer, Hebrew and Semitic studies, religious studies
Expert on ancient Israel, Greco-Roman-era Judaism, early Christianity
Margarita Zamora
Professor, Spanish/Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies
Expert on the culture, early history, and literature of the Caribbean, Mexico, and Peru.
Brigitte Fielder
Associate Professor
Expert in nineteenth-century US literature, early African American literature; children's literature; race, gender, and sexuality studies.
Bradley Carl
Co-Director, Wisconsin Evaluation Collaborative
Expert on district/school accountability systems, "early warning" systems to identify students at risk, and educator evaluation systems.
Warren Porter
Professor, zoology
Expert on climate change effects on animals, subtle biological effects of pesticides and early detection of infection
Craig Atwood
Associate professor, medicine
Expert on hormonal mechanisms of aging, hormone replacement therapy, Alzheimer's disease, prostate cancer and early human embryogenesis
Yang Bai
Professor, physics
Theoretical particle physics including dark matter, cosmic rays, black hole, gravitational wave and early universe physics.
Lauren Schmitz
Assistant Professor, La Follette School of Public Affairs
Expert on the interplay between social experiences, genetics, and disparities in health and aging; early life adversity and aging; ethical use of genetic data
Andrew Stevens
Curator of prints emeritus, drawings and photographs, Chazen Museum of Art
Expert on connoisseurship and history of prints
Alex Crockford
Admin Program Manager/Department of Plant Pathology
Expert on seed potato production from tissue culture through commercial planting and provide leadership to certification program with the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
