Faculty

Annamaria Csizmadia

Assistant Professor

Department of Human Development & Family Studies
University of Connecticut
One University Place
Stamford, CT 06901-2315

Phone: (203) 251-9586
Fax: (203) 251-9534
E-Mail: annamaria.csizmadia@uconn.edu

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

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.