A child is a human being between the stages of birth and puberty,or between the developmental period of infancy and puberty. The legal definition of child generally refers to a minor,otherwise known as a person younger than the age of majority. Children generally have fewer rights and responsibilities than adults. They are classed as unable to make serious decisions.
Walter Ze'ev Laqueur was a German-born American historian,journalist and political commentator. He was an influential scholar on the subjects of terrorism and political violence.
Henry Farnum May was an American historian and Margaret Byrne Professor of History,University of California,Berkeley.
Peter Nathaniel Stearns is a professor at George Mason University,where he was provost from January 1,2000 to July 2014.
Iona Margaret Balfour Opie,and Peter Mason Opie were an English married team of folklorists who applied modern techniques to understanding children's literature and play,in studies such as The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (1951) and The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren (1959). They were also noted anthologists,assembled large collections of children's literature,toys,and games and were regarded as world-famous authorities on children's lore and customs.
Nicholas J. Cull is a historian and professor in the Master's in Public Diplomacy program at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California. He was the founding director of this program and ran it from 2005 to 2019.
Paul Finkelman is an American legal historian,the Robert E. and Susan T. Rydell Visiting Professor at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter,Minnesota,and a research affiliate at the Max and Tessie Zelikovitz Centre for Jewish Studies,Carleton University,Ottawa,Canada. He is the author or editor of more than 50 books on American legal and constitutional history,slavery,general American history and baseball. In addition,he has authored more than 200 scholarly articles on these and many other subjects. From 2017 - 2022,Finkelman served as the President and Chancellor of Gratz College,Melrose Park,Pennsylvania.
Selma Jeanne Cohen was a historian,teacher,author,and editor who devoted her career to advocating dance as an art worthy of the same scholarly respect traditionally awarded to painting,music,and literature. She was the founding editor of the six-volume International Encyclopedia of Dance,completed in 1998.
Gilbert H. Herdt is Emeritus Professor of Human Sexuality Studies and Anthropology and a Founder of the Department of Sexuality Studies and National Sexuality Resource Center at San Francisco State University. He founded the Summer Institute on Sexuality and Society at the University of Amsterdam (1996). He founded the PhD Program in Human Sexuality at the California Institute for Integral Studies,San Francisco (2013). He conducted long term field work among the Sambia people of Papua New Guinea,and has written widely on the nature and variation in human sexual expression in Papua New Guinea,Melanesia,and across culture.
Donald Thomas Critchlow serves as Director for the Center for American Institutions at Arizona State University,where he is a professor in History. The Center for American Institutions,established in Fall 2023,states as its mission to strengthen and renew American institutions,political,economic,and social. He has appeared on C-SPAN,NPR,BBC World News,and many talk radio programs. He has written for The Washington Post,The New York Observer,New York Post,NewsMax Magazine and National Review,and has lectured in Europe,China,and Brazil.
Deborah Dash Moore is the former director of the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies and a Frederick G.L. Huetwell Professor of History and Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor,Michigan.
Him Mark Lai was a historian of Chinese American,a leader of the Chinese-American community,and writer. He helped restore the state of Chinese American historiography. Lai "rescued,collected,catalogued,preserved and shared" historical sources in Chinese and English. He was known as the "Dean of Chinese American history" by his academic peers,despite the fact that he was professionally trained as a mechanical engineer with no advanced training in the academic field of history. The Chronicle of Higher Education named Lai "the scholar who legitimized the study of Chinese America".
Annette Patricia Lareau is a sociologist working at the University of Pennsylvania.
Michael Richard Ayers,is a British philosopher and professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Oxford. He studied at St. John's College of the University of Cambridge,and was a member of Wadham College,Oxford from 1965 until 2002. Among his students are Colin McGinn and William Child.
Nezar Al Sayyad is an architect,city planner,urban designer,urban historian,and professor emeritus at the University of California Berkeley in the College of Environmental Design,where he received the Distinguished Teaching Award. Educated as an architect,planner,and urban historian,AlSayyad is principally an urbanist whose specialty is the study of cities,their urban forms and spaces,and their impact on their social and cultural realities. As a scholar,AlSayyad has written and edited several books on colonialism,identity,Islamic architecture,tourism,tradition,urbanism,urban design,urban history,urban informality,and virtuality.
The history of childhood has been a topic of interest in social history since the highly influential book Centuries of Childhood,published by French historian Philippe Ariès in 1960. He argued "childhood" as a concept was created by modern society. Ariès studied paintings,gravestones,furniture,and school records. He found before the 17th-century,children were represented as mini-adults.
Marcia J. Bunge is an American Lutheran theologian. She is Professor of Religion and the Bernhardson Distinguished Chair of Lutheran Studies at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter,Minnesota.
Anthony Dirk Moses is an Australian scholar who researches various aspects of genocide. In 2022 he became the Anne and Bernard Spitzer Professor of Political Science at the City College of New York,after having been the Frank Porter Graham Distinguished Professor of Global Human Rights History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is a widely regarded as a leading scholar on genocide,especially in colonial contexts,as well as on the political development of the concept itself. He is known for coining the term racial century in reference to the period 1850–1950. He is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Genocide Research.
Stephen P. Hinshaw is an American psychologist whose contributions lie in the areas of developmental psychopathology and combating the stigma that surrounds mental illness. He has authored more than 325 scientific articles and chapters as well as 14 authored and edited books. Currently,he is Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of California,Berkeley,and Professor In Residence and Vice Chair for Child and Adolescent Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California,San Francisco. His work focuses on child and adolescent mental disorders,clinical interventions,mechanisms of change in psychopathology,and stigma prevention efforts,with a specialization in ADHD and other externalizing behavioral disorders.
The End of American Childhood:A History of Parenting from Life on the Frontier to the Managed Child was written by historian Paula S. Fass and published by Princeton University Press in 2016. The book explores how parent–child relationships have influenced national culture in the United States and contends that the societal importance of adolescence has waned.
