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Email: melissa.r.herman@dartmouth.edu Phone: 603-646-2552 Office: 6104 Silsby Hall
Education
B.A. Wesleyan University; M.A. Stanford University; Ph.D. Stanford University
Areas of Expertise
Adolescent development; multi-racial children; high school performance; racial identification; achievement
Selected Works
"The Black-White-Other Test Score Gap: Testing Theories of Academic Performance Among Multiracial and Monoracial Adolescents," Sociology of Education, 82:1 (2009) 20-46.
"Ethnicity and Image: Correlates of Crowd Affiliation Among Ethnic Minority Youth," with B B Brown, J V Hamm, and D J Heck, Child Development, 79:3 (2008) 528-546.
"Racial Identification among Multiracial Youth: Implications for Adjustment," The Handbook of Race, Racism, and the Developing Child, S Quintana and C McKowan (eds.) (2008) 203-225.
"Forced to Choose: Some Determinants of Racial Identification in Multi-racial Adolescents," Child Development, 75:3 (2004) 730-748.
"How Neighborhoods, Families, Peer Groups, and Schools Jointly Affect Changes in Early Adolescent Development," with T D Cook, M Phillips, and R A Settersten, Child Development, 73:4 (2002) 1283-1309.
"The Influence of Family Regulation, Connection, and Psychological Autonomy on Six Measures of Adolescent Functioning," with S M Dornbusch and J R Herting, Journal of Adolescent Research, 12:1 (1997).
Current Projects
Implications of racial self-identification and context on the mental health of multiracial adolescents; How observers' background characteristics affect observations of race; Attitudes toward interracial relationships; Relationship of parenting style to multiracial adolescent adjustment; Sibling differences in multiracial identification; social desirability bias in survey research
