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Academic Advisory Board Member for NSF Early Career Award

UConn Inclusive Excellence/Spirit Award Finalist

UConn CETL Teaching Fellow Award, Department Nominations

UConn Provost General Education Course Enhancement Grant Competition

UConn CETL e-Campus Summer Online Course Development Grants

International Society for Interpersonal Acceptance and Rejection (ISIPAR) 

National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) 

National Black Child Development Institute (NBCDI) 

National Council for Family Relations (NCFR) 

National Latino Children’s Institute (NLCI)

Society for Cross Cultural Research (SCCR) 

Society for Research on Adolescence (SRA)

 Society for Research on Child Development (SRCD) 

Parent-Child Grief Interactions: A Qualitative Analysis and Conceptual Framework of the Lived Experiences of Young Widowed Parents

Resilience and Well-Being of Korean Unwed Mothers: A Moderated Mediation Model

Parental reasons for engaging in or avoiding weight talk with children

Linda C. Halgunseth is an associate professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies at Michigan State University.  Her research focuses on parenting and children’s health and well-being in African, European, and Latin American families. Dr. Halgunseth is Past Chair of the Latinx Caucus of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD).  She received the Early Career Award in Teaching Excellence from AAUP and the Early Career Award in Research from the SRCD Latinx Caucus.  She earned a BA in psychology and Spanish at the University of Texas at Austin, and a MS and PhD in human development and family studies from the University of Missouri.

Minority Health and Well-Being

Children of Immigrants

Mexican/American and African American Parenting

Cultural Influences on Parent-Child Relationships and Parenting

Culturally-Appropriate Measurement Development

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Google Scholar Citations

ResearchGate Citations

Child’s Second Language: Advantage or Distraction?

Boosting the role of parents of English learners in preschools

Early sexual and romantic behaviors in Latine adolescents: Differences by national origin

Examining the association between acculturation and parental psychological control in Chinese immigrant mothers

Investigating the association between sources of parental knowledge and Mexican adolescents’ psychological adjustment

Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Studies and Chicano/Latino Studies

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