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
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.


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)
Hrissanthi (Chris) Ikonomidou
Professor, neurology
Expert on brain injuries in early life, impact of sedative and anticonvulsant drugs on the developing brain
