Stephanie Curenton

Boston University Wheelock College

Stephanie M. Curenton, PhD, is a tenured associate professor in the Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. She studies the social, cognitive, and language development of low-income and minority children within various ecological contexts, such as parent-child interactions, early childhood education programs, early childhood workforce programs, and related state and federal policies. She served as past associate editor for Early Childhood Research Quarterly and Early Education and Development. She was awarded a research policy fellowship from the Society for Research on Child Development (SRCD)/American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and worked in the Office of Child Care. She has served on education nonprofit boards for National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) and local Head Start programs.

Her research has been funded by the US Department of Health and Human Services in the Office of Program Research and Evaluation (OPRE), the National Academy of Science Ford Pre-doctoral Fellowship, American Education Research Association (AERA), the Foundation for Child Development, and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. She earned her PhD in developmental and community psychology from the University of Virginia.

Areas of Expertise

• Education
• Race and Ethnicity
• Social Policy
• Psychology (Child Development)

Methodology

• Community-based Participatory Research (CBPR)
• Focus Groups
• Interviews
• Qualitative Methods
• Quantitative Methods
• Randomized Control Trials (RCTs)
• Secondary Data Analysis
• Survey Methods and Questionnaires