Csizmadia, Annamaria Assistant Professor, Human Development & Family Studies Department: Human Development and Family Studies One University Place Office: 336 Stamford, CT 06901-2315 Phone: (203) 251-9586 Fax: (203) 251-9534 Email: Annamaria.Csizmadia@uconn.edu CURRICULUM VITAE

Educational Background:

Ph. D. Human Development & Family Studies, University of Missouri, 2008 Graduate Minors: Black Studies; International Development.
Dissertation Title: Biracial Children’s Psychosocial Development from Kindergarten to 5th Grade: Links to Individual and Contextual Characteristics. 
                                   
M. A., German Literature (High Pass), University of Missouri-Columbia, 2001 Cumulative GPA: 4.0/ 4.0.

Zwischenpruefung, German and English literature and linguistics, University of Trier, Germany, 1999
      Emphasis: American Literature.

Research Interests:

•     Social-emotional development of multiracial children and youth
•     Social-emotional and academic adjustment of racial and ethnic minority children and adolescents
•     Multiracial and monoracial identity development
•     Immigrant and low-income families
•     Families of color and interracial families

Grants & Awards:

Csizmadia, A. (2009, July). Biracial children's psychosocial and cognitive development from the early years through adolescence. Grant proposal submitted to the University of Connecticut Faculty Small Grant Program. Amount: $1448.00. Role: Principal Investigator. Funded.

Selected Publications:

Miller, W. B., Sable, M. R., & Csizmadia, A. (2008). Pregnancy wantedness and child attachment security: Is there a relationship? Maternal and Child Health Journal, 12, 478-487.

Ispa, J. M., Sable, M. R., Porter, N., & Csizmadia, A. (2007). Pregnancy acceptance, parenting stress, and toddler attachment in low-income Black families. Journal of Marriage and Family, 69, 1-13.

Halgunseth, L. C., Ispa, J. M., Csizmadia, A., & Thornburg, K. R. (2005). Relations among maternal racial identity, maternal parenting behavior, and child outcomes in low-income urban Black families. Journal of Black Psychology, 31(4), 418-440.

Selected Professional Presentations:

Csizmadia, A., & Ispa, J. M. Biracial Children’s Psychosocial Development from Kindergarten to 5th Grade: Links to Individual and Contextual Characteristics. Poster presented at the 16th Biannual Society for Research in Human Development Conference held in Little Rock, AK in April 2008.

Csizmadia, A. Racial identification, personal, family, and contextual influences: An integrative model of multiracial youth’s development. Paper presented at the 16th Biannual Society for Research in Human Development Conference held in Little Rock, AK in April 2008.

Porter, N., Ispa, J, M. Sable, M. S., & Csizmadia, A. (2007, March). Pregnancy acceptance among low-income, young, Black mothers and its relation to maternal and child outcomes: A follow-up study. Presented at the Biannual Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, March 2007 in Boston, MA.

Csizmadia, A., Cooney, T. M., & Brunsma, D. L. (2006, November). Identity, context, and multiracials’ development: A life course model. Paper presented at the 68th Annual Conference of the National Council on Family Relations held in Minneapolis, MN.

Csizmadia, A., Cooney, T. M., & Brunsma, D. L. (2006, March). An in-depth look at Black-White biracial individuals’ racial identification choices across time and context. Poster presented at the 11th Biannual Meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence, in San Francisco, CA.

Csizmadia, A., & Mensah, K. (2005, November). Negotiating the meaning of race in Black and Black-White biracial families. Presented at the 67th Annual Conference of the National Council on Family Relations, in Phoenix, AZ.
     
Sable, M. R., Ispa, J. M., Porter, N., & Csizmadia, A. (2005, March). Young, low-income, African American mothers’ acceptance of pregnancy: Links with later maternal warmth, parenting stress, and toddler development. Presented at the Psychosocial Workshop, Philadelphia, PA.

Halgunseth, L. C., Csizmadia, A., Ispa, J. M., & Thornburg, K. R. (2004, November). Racial identity, parenting, and child outcomes in low-income Black families. Poster presented at the 66th Annual Conference of the National Council for Family Relations, Orlando, FL.

Csizmadia, A., Halgunseth, L. C., Thornburg, K. R., & Ispa, J. M. (2004, March). Predicting parenting and child outcomes in low-income urban Black families with the Racial Identity Attitude Scale-Short Form B (RIAS-B). Paper presented at the Annual International Conference of the National Council for Black Studies, Atlanta, GA.  

Csizmadia, A. Biracial Children’s Psychosocial Development in the Middle Childhood Years. Paper accepted for presentation at the 71st NCFR Annual Conference to be held in San Francisco, CA in November 2009.

Csizmadia, A., & Ispa, J. M. (April, 2009). Biracial Children’s Psychosocial Development from Kindergarten to 5th Grade: Links to Individual and Contextual Characteristics. Poster presented at the 2009 Biannual SRCD Meeting held in Denver, CO.

Ispa, J. M., Csizmadia, A., Fine, M. A., Rudy, D., Krull, J., Bradley, R. H., & Cabrera, N. (April, 2009). Longitudinal patterns of maternal intrusiveness during play with young children: Variations across cultural groups and associations with children’s behavior toward mothers. In M. Davidov & D. Rudy (Chairs), Cultural differences and similarities in the effects of parenting on children: A search for underlying mechanisms. Symposium presented at the meetings of the Society for Research in Child Development, Denver, CO.