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Claire D. Vallotton

Professor & Director of Graduate Studies

Department of Human Development and Family Studies

Area of Expertise

Child Development

Biography

Accepting applications for graduate students. Dr. Claire D. Vallotton followed her Ph.D. and was a Faculty Fellow at UC Davis, after which she won the Ruth L. Kirschstein Clinical Research Service Award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to study as a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Education; the title of her NICHD-funded study was “Symbol and Social Skills in Typical and At-Risk Children.” Dr. Vallotton has also been awarded the New Inves

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Education

B.A. Psychology, Simpson College

Ph.D. Human Development, University of California