
MSU Foundation Professor Director of the Diversity Research Network
Department of Human Development and Family Studies
Accepting applications for graduate students. Dr. Deborah J. Johnson's research explores racially and culturally related development, parental racial socialization and coping, cultural adjustment from early childhood through emerging adulthood, in both domestic and international children and youth. Racial-ethnic identity development and the coping skills as a protective mechanisms of African American and other children in diverse settings, has been a central interest. The ongoing cultural ad
Read moreA.B. Behavioral Sciences, University of Chicago
Ph.D. Human Development and Social Policy, Northwestern University
M.A. Human Development and Family Studies, Cornell University