Children and Crisis

Anita Casavantes Bradford

an authority on the history of unaccompanied child migrants, is a Professor of History at the University of California Irvine, Co-Director of the UC-Cuba Multi Campus Academic Initiative, and the author of The Revolution Is for the Children: The Politics of Childhood in Havana and Miami, 1959-1962 and Suffer the Little Children: Child Migration and the Geopolitics of Compassion in the United States.

Josh Cisler

an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at the Dell Medical School and the UT Austin Psychology Department, is a licensed clinical psychologist in UT Health Austin’s Mulva Clinic for the Neurosciences and a specialist in the treatment of PTSD and the impact of traumatic stress.

Dr. Joshua Coleman

a psychologist in private practice in San Francisco, is an authority on parent-child estrangement, parental alienation, couples’ conflict and. other life challenge and a best-selling author of such books as Rules of Estrangement, When Parents Hurt, and The Marriage Makeover.

Abena Dove Osseo-Asare

a specialist on health and history who focuses on Africa, is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin and courtesy associate professor in the Department of Population Health at the Dell Medical School.

Jill Duer Berrick

an authority on the experiences of children and families touched by foster care is Distinguished Professor and the Zellerbach Family Foundation Professor of Social Welfare at UC-Berkeley and the author of The Impossible Imperative: Navigating the Competing Principles of Child Protection.

Janet Golden

a historian of medicine and of childhood, is professor emeritus of history at Rutgers University Camden, and the author and editor of such books as Babies Made Us Modern: How Infants Brought America into the Twentieth Century and Children and Youth in Sickness and in Health: A Historical Handbook and Guide.

Lorna Hermosura

is assistant professor of Curriculum and Instruction in the University of Texas at Austin College of Education. recipient of a major Department of Justice grant to address racial and ethnic disparities related to juvenile justice, and an authority on th implementation of restorative practices in public schools. 

Friederike Kind-Kovács

is senior researcher at the Hannah-Arendt-Institute for Totalitarianism Studies at the TU Dresden and author of Budapest’s Children: Humanitarian Relief in the Aftermath of the Great War.

Amanda H. Littauer

an assistant professor of history and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Northern Illinois University, is the author of Bad Girls: Young Women, Sex, and Rebellion before the Sixties.

Joanna Beata Michlic

is an honorary senior research associate at the Centre for Collective Violence, Holocaust and Genocide Studies at University College London and the author of books including Jewish Families in Europe, 1939-Present: History, Representation, and Memory. She will be Visiting Full Professor of Contemporary History and the Holocaust at Sweden’s Lund University from January 2023 to 2025.

Katherine S. Newman

System Chancellor for Academic Programs, the Senior Vice President for Economic Development and the Torrey Little Professor of Sociology at UMass Amherst, is the author of books including The Accordion Family: Boomerang Kids, Anxious Parents,and the Private Toll of Global Competition, The Missing Class: Portraits of the Near Poor in America, and Rampage: The Social Roots of School Shootings.

David Oshinsky

the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Polio: An American Story and many other books that address race, inequality, and suffering, is director of the Division of Medical Humanities at NYU School of Medicine and a professor in the Department of History at New York University.

Ruben Parra-Cardona

an associate professor in UT Austin’s Steve Hicks School of Social Work at UT Austin of UT’s School of Social Work and an expert on the impact of parental deportation on the children of undocumented immigrants, and a clinical faculty member and researcher in the Instituto Regional de Estudios de la Familia (a leading family therapy institute in northern Mexico).

Jonathan Zimmerman

(who will participate remotely) is Professor of History of Education and the Judy and Howard Berkowitz Professor in Education at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of a series of books that explore the cultural controversies surrounding campus politics, free speech, sex education, and educational achievement and equity.