Areas of Expertise
Developmental Psychology; Psychology of Women; Qualitative Research; Child Development; Children & Spirituality
Email: thurd@brandeis.edu
Current Project
On leave for the 2008-2009 Academic Year.
Biography
Tracey Levin Hurd is a developmental psychologist who was a postdoctoral fellow at Brown University’s Center for the Study of Human Development, after receiving a Ph.D. from Boston College, a Masters in Child Development from Tufts University, and a Bachelors degree in Government from Clark University. She has been a faculty member at Boston College, Simmons College, and Lesley University. The author of numerous articles, she has recently published, Nurturing Children and Youth: A Developmental Guidebook, written specifically for liberal religious educators and parents. Dr. Hurd served the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations (UUA) as the Children and Families Programs Director in the Lifespan Faith Development group during a four-year leave from the WSRC. She continues to contribute to scholarship about children and faith. She is writing her first children’s book about the usefulness of religion. Areas of inquiry for Dr. Hurd include teaching as a spiritual process, children’s faith development, children’s narratives about faith and visual depictions of religion and spirituality.
Education
Ph.D., Boston College
M. Ed., Tufts University
B.A., Clark University
Representative Publications
Hurd, Tracey. Nurturing Children and Youth: A Developmental Guidebook. Boston: Unitarian Universalist Association, 2005.
Hurd, T.L., Lerner, R.M. & Barton, K. “Integrated services: Expanding partnerships to meet the needs of today’s children and families.” Young Children, 74-80.
Links
Curriculum Vitae
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
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