Child Development professors

Fall 2015

Ana Garcia Nevarez

Courses Taught:
CHDV 21 - Freshman Seminar
CHDV 35F - Human Development and
Elementary Field Experience
CHDV 131 - Language Development
CHDV 135 - Cross Cultural Child
Development
CHDV 136 - Developmental Experiences,
Methods and Curriculum
CHDV 247 - Theoretical and Applied
Perspectives on Cross-cultural
development

Office hours:
Advising by appointment.

Email:
garciaa@csus.edu

Kristen Alexander
Courses Taught:
CHDV 133: Research in
Human Development
CHDV 137: Cognitive
Development/Laboratory
Email:
kalexander@csus.edu

Diane Bento
Courses Taught:

CHDV 30
EDUC 10
EDUC 21
EDUC 121

Email:
morrisbento@csus.edu

Amber Gonzalez

amber.gonzalez@csus.edu
http://www.csus.edu/coe/faculty/profiles/gonzalez-amber.html

Areas of Research/Scholarly Activity:

Latinas and Latinos in Higher Education; Graduate Education;
College Persistence and Success; Student Perceptions and
Outcomes; Campus Climate; Intersectionalities of Race,
Ethnicity, and Gender in Education
Courses Taught:
CHDV 133 - Research in Human Development
CHDV 134 - Development of Young Children as Mathematical
and Scientific Thinkers
CHDV 135 - Crosscultural Child Development
CHDV 143 - Mind and Brain in Developmental Context
CHDV 250 - Research Methods

Sheri Hembree (Reynolds)

hembrees@csus.edu
http://www.csus.edu/coe/faculty/profiles/hembree-sheri.html

Areas of Research/Scholarly Activity:

Father-child relationships, Social-cognitive development, and Child
Care Quality
Courses Taught
CHDV 133 - Research in Human Development
CHDV 145 - Controversial Issues in Childhood Development,
Education, and Social Policy
CHDV/FACS 154 - Issues in Parenting
CHDV 138/L - Social Development
CHDV 210 - Seminar in Social Development
CHDV 250 - Research Methods
CHDV 290 - Culminating Seminar
CHDV 504 - Culminating Experience in Child Development:
Thesis or Project

Irene BersolaNguyen
Courses Taught:

CHDV 30 - Human Development

CHDV 35 - Child and Adolescent Development
CHDV 35F - Field Experience in Human Development
CHDV 123 - Methods of Observation and Assessment in
Child Development
CHDV 131 - Language Development
CHDV 132 - Fieldwork In Child Development
CHDV 133 - Research in Human Development
CHDV 135 - Crosscultural Child Development
CHDV 138 - Social and Emotional Development

Email:

irenebn@csus.edu

Christi Cervantes
Courses Taught:
CHDV 131 - Language Development
CHDV 138 - Social and Emotional
Development
CHDV 154 - Issues in Parenting

Email:
ccervant@csus.edu

Karen Horobin

http://www.csus.edu/coe/faculty/profiles/horobin-karen.html

Course Taught
CHDV 141 - History of Childhood: International
and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Contact Information
Brighton Hall 219
(916) 278-5528
kdhorobin@csus.edu

Sylvia Escobar
Courses Taught:
CHDV 35 - Child and Adolescent Development

Office hours:
Tuesday: 7:00 - 8:00 am

Email:
escobar3@csus.edu

Shinder Gill
Courses Taught:
138L -Child Development

Office hours:
N/A

Email:
shinder.gill@csus.edu

Karen Davis OHara

Courses Taught:
CHDV 133 Research Methods in Human
Development
CHDV 138 Social and Emotional Development
CHDV 143 Mind and Brian in Development
CHDV 246 Motivation in Education

Office hours:
Monday: 2:00 -3:00 pm
Wednesday: 1:00 3:00 pm

Email:
kdohara@csus.edu

Anne Laccopucci
http://www.csus.edu/coe/faculty/profiles/lacco
pucci-anne.html
Courses Taught
CHDV 30 - Human Development
CHDV 35 - Child and Adolescent Development
Contact Information
Brighton Hall 221
(916) 278-6639
anne.iaccopucci@csus.edu

Diane Lee

diane.lee@csus.edu
http://www.csus.edu/coe/faculty/profiles/lee-diane.html

Areas of Research/Scholarly Activity

Resilience and flourishing of at-risk youth from diverse
cultural backgrounds; family, school, and culture; socioemotional development; acculturation stress and coping
Courses Taught
CHDV 133 - Research Human Development
CHDV 137/L - Cognitive Development

Nicki Mehta
Courses Taught
CHDV 30 Human Development
EDUC 165 Sex Role Stereotyping in American
Education

Contact Information
nickim@csus.edu

Maggie Natzel
Courses Taught
CHDV 123 Methods of Observation and
Assessment in Child Development
CHDV 135 Crosscultural Child Development
CHDV 136 Development Experience, Methods
and Curriculum

Contact Information
mnatzel@csus.edu

Rosalie Parrish
Courses Taught
CHDV 143 Mind and Brain in Developmental
Context

Contact Information
rosalie.parrish@csus.edu

Susan Gomez
Courses Taught:
CHDV 136 - Developmental Experiences,
Methods and Curriculum

Office hours:
Tuesday: 10:00 - 11:30 am
Thursday: 10:00 - 11:30 am

Email:
gomezs@csus.edu

Kimberly
Biddle
Courses Taught:

CHDV 30 - Human Development

CHDV 35 - Child and Adolescent Development
CHDV 35F - Human Development and
Elementary Field Experience
CHDV 132 - Fieldwork in Child Development
CHDV 138/L - Social and Emotional
Development/Laboratory
CHDV 157 - Infant and Toddler: Development
and Care
CHDV 246 - Motivational Processes in Children

Email:

kagordon@csus.edu

Natalie Pierce
Courses Taught
Contact Information
Human Development 30 Life Span
piercen@csus.edu
CHDV 35 Child and Adolescent Development
CHDV 130 Parent Education
CHDV 138 Social and Emotional Development
CHDV 139 Educational Play: Theory and Practice
CHDV 144 Cooperative Education
CHDV 154 Issues in Parenting
CHDV 194 Cooperative Education Work Experience