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Email: Melissa.Herman@Dartmouth.edu
 Assistant 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 24: Education and Inequality (syllabus)
- SOCY 40: Identity and Social Interaction in Multiracial Americans (syllabus)
- SOCY 47: Sociological Approaches to Social Psychology (syllabus)
- SOCY 49: Youth and Society (syllabus)
Selected Publications
- 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 , Vol. 12,
No. 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 Vol. 8, 1996, (Gerald Adams, Ed.).
- Dornbusch, S. M., M. Herman, & I. Lin, 1996, "Single Parenthood"
Society, Vol. 33, 5.
Papers in Progress
- "The Black-White-Other test score gap: academic achievement among mixed
race adolescents"
- 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)
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