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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.

Dave Riley

Professor emeritus, human development and family studies

Expert on child development

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

James Li

Associate Professor; Department of Psychology; Waisman Center

ADHD, antisocial behaviors, child development, genetics, parental and social influences, gene-environment interplay

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.

Ullrich Langer

Professor, French & Italian

Expert on early modern French literature and culture

Thomas Dale

Professor, art history

Expert on Early Christian, Byzantine and medieval European art, global Middle Ages, and medieval race

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.