October 12, 2006
Louisiana State University Professor to Speak at Clark University
about the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
Jill Korbin, renowned expert on child abuse, to lecture at Clark Oct. 24
Worcester, Mass. - —"Neighborhood Influences on Child Maltreatment," a special lecture at Clark University, will focus on understanding the relationship of neighborhood conditions to child abuse and neglect. Within an ecological framework, neighborhood conditions have a potentially important, if still poorly understood, relationship to the well-being of children and families, according to guest speaker and anthropologist Jill E. Korbin, Ph.D.
This free, public lecture will begin at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 24, in Razzo Hall, Traina Center for the Arts, 92 Downing St.
Professor Korbin is Associate Dean, Professor of Anthropology, Director of the Schubert Center for Child Studies and Director of the Childhood Studies Program in the College of Arts and Sciences at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. She will discuss the combination of epidemiological and ethnographic approaches to definitions of neighborhood contexts and to both child and adult perspectives.
Professor Korbin was awarded the Margaret Mead Award (1986) from the American Anthropological Association and the Society for Applied Anthropology and a Congressional Science Fellowship (1985-86) through the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Society for Research in Child Development. She served on the National Academy of Sciences Panel on Research on Child Abuse and Neglect, the Institute of Medicine Panel on Pathophysiology and Prevention of Adolescent and Adult Suicide, and has consulted for the United States Advisory Board on Child Abuse and Neglect.
Professor Korbin has published numerous articles on culture and child maltreatment, including her edited book, "Child Abuse and Neglect: Cross-Cultural Perspectives" (1981, University of California Press), which was the first volume to examine the relationship of culture and child maltreatment. She also has published and conducted research on women incarcerated for fatal child maltreatment, on health, mental health and child rearing among Ohio's Amish population, and on the impact of neighborhood factors on child maltreatment and well-being.
Professor Korbin earned her Ph.D. in 1978 from the University of California at Los Angeles.