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Melissa Herman

Email: Melissa.Herman@Dartmouth.edu

Melissa HermanAssistant Professor, Sociology

Dartmouth College
6104 Silsby - Room 108
Hanover, NH  03755
603-646-2552

Wesleyan University, B.A. 1990
Stanford University, M.A. 1993
Stanford University, Ph.D 1998

Curriculum vitae (PDF format, requires free Acrobat Reader)

Courses Taught at Dartmouth

  • SOCY 7:    FS: Between and Betwixt: Identity and Development in Multi-Racial Adolescents (syllabus)
  • SOCY 31:  Youth and Society (syllabus) (formerly Socy 49)
  • SOCY 33:  Sociological Approaches to Social Psychology (syllabus) (formerly Socy 47)
  • SOCY 57:  Identity and Social Interaction in Multiracial Americans (syllabus) (formerly Socy 40)
  • SOCY 58:  Education and Inequality (syllabus) (formerly Socy 24)

Selected Publications

  • Herman, M., 2009.  "The Black-White-Other test score gap: academic achievement among mixed race adolescents" Sociology of Education, 81(1).
  • Herman, M., 2008. “Biracial Youth / Mixed Race Youth,” in Encyclopedia of the Life Course and Human Development, Carr, Crosnoe, Hughes, & Pienta, (Eds.). Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA.
  • Brown, B. B., Herman, M. R., Hamm, J. V. & Heck, D. J. 2008. “Ethnicity and Image: Correlates of Crowd Affiliation Among Ethnic Minority Youth,” Child Development, 79(3) 528-545.
  • Herman, M., 2008. “Racial Identification among Multiracial Youth: Implications for Adjustment,” pp. 203-225, in The Handbook of Race, Racism, and the Developing Child, S. Quintana & C. McKowan, (Eds), Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Publishing Group.
  • Herman, M. 2004. "Forced to Choose: Some Determinants of Racial Identification in Multi-Racial Adolescents," Child Development, 75(3), 730-748.
  • Cook, T. D., Herman, M., Phillips, M., & Settersten, R. A., 2002, "How Neighborhoods, Families, Peer Groups, and Schools Jointly Affect Changes in Early Adolescent Development", Child Development, 73(4), 1283-1309.
  • Herman, M., S. M. Dornbusch, M. C. Herron, & J. R. Herting, 1997, "The Influence of Family Regulation, Connection, and Psychological Autonomy on Six Measures of Adolescent Functioning" Journal of Adolescent Research , 12(1) (Also presented at the 2nd BYU Conference on Youth and Family, 1995, Sundance, Utah.)
  • Dornbusch, S. M., M. Herman, & J. A. Morley, 1996, "Adolescent Domains of Achievement" Psychosocial Development During Adolescence: Advances in Human Development 8, 1996, (Gerald Adams, Ed.).
  • Dornbusch, S. M., M. Herman, & I. Lin, 1996, "Single Parenthood" Society, 33(5).

Papers in Progress

  • Implications of Racial Self-Identification, Ethnic Identity, Racial Ancestry, and Racial Context for Depressive Symptoms and Self-Esteem Among Multiracial Adolescents
  • Perceptions of Race: how background characteristics affect accuracy in observing race

Faculty Research and Teaching Interests

  • Education/Inequality
  • Social Psychology
  • Adolescent Development
  • Race (particularly biracial and multi-racial issues)

 

Last Updated: 4/15/09