Susan D. Holloway

Susan D. Holloway holds the title Professor of the Graduate School within the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research explores how social and cultural factors shape parenting practices, emotional well-being, and parenting self-efficacy. She takes an interdisciplinary approach, drawing from developmental psychology, sociology, anthropology, and feminist studies. Her work examines connections between educational institutions and families from non-dominant groups, including those defined by social class, race/ethnicity, and immigrant status. She is a National Academy of Education/Spencer Fellow and two-time Fulbright Scholar. Holloway earned her BA in psychology from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and her EdS and PhD in child development and early education from Stanford University.

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