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Adoption & Culture

Jan Beatty, Director of Creative Writing, Carlow University

  Red Sugar (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008).

  Boneshaker (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002).

  Mad River (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996).

Frayda Cohen, Visiting Assistant Professor, Women’s Studies and Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh

      Tracing the Red Thread: An Ethnography of Chinese-US Transnational Adoption.
Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh, 2007.
Christina Groark, Associate Professor of Psychology, Co-Director, Office of Child Development, University of Pittsburgh
    
       With Muhamedrahimov, R. J, Parmov, O. I., Nikiforova, N. V, and McCall, R. “Improvements in early care in Russian orphanages and their relationship to observed behavior.” Infant Mental Health Journal 26, 2 (2005): 96-109

David Herring, Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh
 
       “Kinship Foster Care: Implications of Behavioral Biology Research.” Buffalo Law Review, forthcoming 2008.

       “The Multiethnic Placement Act: Threat to Foster Child Safety and Well-Being?” 41 Michigan Journal of Law Reform 89 (2007)

       “Foster Care Safety and the Kinship Cue of Attitude Similarity.” 7 Minnesota Journal of  Law, Science &Technology  355 (2006)
 
        “ Foster Care Placement: Reducing the Risk of Sibling Incest.” 37 Michigan Journal of Law Reform 4 (2004).
 
         “Child Placement Decisions:  The Relevance of Facial Resemblance and Biological Relationships.” 43 Jurimetrics 387 (2003).
 
         “Behavioral Genetics and the Best Interests of the Child Decision Rule.” 36 Michigan Journal of Law Reform 1 (2002).

Sue Howard, Associate Professor, Department of English, Duquesne University

       "Transcultural Adoption in the Eighteenth-Century Transatlantic Novel:
Questioning National Edentities in Charlote Lennox's _Euphemia_."
Forthcoming in anthology edited by Christopher Johnson for the University of Deleware

Jeanne Marie Laskas, Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Pittsburgh

Growing Girls: The Mother of All Adventures. Bantam, 2006

            The Exact Same Moon: Fifty Acres and a Family. Bantam, 2004

Robert McCall, Professor of Psychology and Co-Director, Office of Child Development, University of Pittsburgh

            With  St. Petersburg – USA Orphanage Research Team.  “Characteristics of children, caregivers, and  orphanages for young children in St. Petersburg, Russian Federation. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology: Special Issue on Child Abandonment, 26 (2005), 477­506.

Marianne Novy, Professor of English, University of Pittsburgh

            Reading Adoption: Family and Difference in Fiction and Drama.  University of Michigan Press, 2005.

            (editor) Imagining Adoption: Essays on Literature and Culture. University of Michigan Press, 2001.

Judith Schachter (Modell), Professor of Anthropology and History, Carnegie Mellon University

            A Sealed and Secret Kinship: The Culture of Policies and Practices in American Adoption. New York: Berghahn, 2002.

            Kinship with Strangers: Adoption and Interpretations of Kinship in American Culture. University of California Press, 1994

Rhonda Wasserman, Professor of Law,  University of Pittsburgh

            “Are You Still My Mother: Interstate Recognition of Adoptions by Gays and Lesbians.” 58 American University Law Review 1 (2008) (forthcoming)