Yana Kuchirko
Assistant Professor
Psychology
Location: 5111a James Hall
Phone: 718.951.5000 x6076
Fax: 718.951.4814
Email:
Yana Kuchirko is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Brooklyn College, CUNY and is the director of the Culture and Child Development Lab (www.culturelabbc.com). After receiving her Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from New York University, she completed a post-doc at the Institute of Human Development and Social Change at NYU. Dr.Kuchirko's work examines the role of culture and context in child development.
Education:
Ph.D., New York University - 2017 (Developmental Psychology)
B.S., New York University - 2007 (Applied Psychology)
Areas of Expertise:
Yana Kuchirko examines sociocultural and ecological contexts of child development. She focuses on how children's early experiences in their everyday settings (home, neighborhood, school) vary by ethnicity/race, socioeconomic status, and gender, and relate to later educational outcomes. Through a strengths-based perspective on research, Kuchirko seeks to challenge dominant, deficit-oriented narratives about ethnic-racial minority children's development.
Books and Publications
Kuchirko, Y., Bennett, A., Halim, M.L.Ruble, D., & Costanzo, P., Influence of siblings on ethnically diverse children's gender development. Developmental Psychology. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2021
Bennet, A., Kuchirko, Y., Ruble, D., Halim, M.H & Costanzo, P. The relation between children's daycare experiences and gender-typing behaviors among ethnic minority children. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2020
Gennetian, L., Coskun, L., Kennedy, J., Kuchirko, Y., & Aber, J.L. Option to Enroll or to Leave an Early Language Intervention: The Impact of Default Options on Parent Uptake. Journal of Child and Family Studies. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2020
Kuchirko, Y., & Nayfeld, I. Language Gap: Cultural Assumptions and Ideologies. In C. Huertas-Abril, & M. Gómez-Parra (Eds.), International Approaches to Bridging the Language Gap (pp. 32-53). Hershey, PA: IGI Global. doi:10.4018/978-1-7998-1219-7.ch003 (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2020
Chazan, S. & Kuchirko, Y. The Emergence of meaning in play activity through the lens of the Children's Developmental Play Instrument (CDPI): A qualitative validity study. Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychology. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2019
Kuchirko, Y. & Tamis-LeMonda, C.S. The Cultural context of infant
development: Variability, specificity, and universality. Chapter for Advances in Child Development.
(Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2019
Kuchirko, Y. On differences and deficits: A critique of the theoretical and
methodological underpinnings of the word gap. Journal of Early Childhood Literacy.
(Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2019
Kuchirko, Y. Schatz, J., Fletcher, K, & Tamis-LeMonda, C.S.Characteristics of
mothers' language to infants during play tasks at 14 and 24 months. Journal of Child Language.
(Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2019
Tamis-LeMonda, C.S., Kuchirko, Y., & Escobar, K. Language and play in parent
child-interactions. Handbook of Parenting, 3E (ed Marc Bornstein).
(Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2019
Kuchirko, Y., Tafuro, L., & Tamis-LeMonda, C.S. Becoming a communicative partner:
Infant responsiveness to maternal language and gestures across the second year. Infancy.
(Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2018
Tamis-LeMonda, C.S., Custode, Kuchirko, Y., Escobar, K. & Lo, T.
Routine Language: Infant-directed speech varies across home activities. Child Development.
(Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2018
Chazan, S., & Kuchirko, Y. The children's developmental play instrument
(CDPI): An extended validity study. Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychology.
(Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2017
Tamis-LeMonda, C.S., Kuchirko, Y., & Suh, D. How infants' social, language,
emotional, and motor actions affect parental input. Language and Concept
Development from Infancy Through Childhood: Social Motivation, Cognition, and Linguistic Mechanisms of Learning.
(Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2017
Tamis-Lemonda, C.S., Kuchirko, Y., Luo, R., Escobar, K., & Bornstein, M. (2017). Power
in methods: Language inputs to infants in structured and naturalistic contexts. Developmental Science.
(Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2017
Chazan, S., Kuchirko, Y., Beebe, B., & Sossin, M. A longitudinal case study
of traumatic play activity using the children's developmental play scale (CDPI). Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychology.
(Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2016
Tamis-LeMonda, C.S., & Kuchirko, Y. Parent-child interactions. Sage Encyclopedia of
Lifespan Development.
(Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2016
Kuchirko, Y., Tamis-LeMonda, C.S., Luo, R., & Liang, E. "What happened
next?": developmental changes in mothers' questions to children. Journal of Early Childhood Literacy.
(Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2015
Luo, R., Tamis-LeMonda, C.S., Kuchirko, Y., Ng, F., & Liang, E. Ethnic variation in
mother-child book-sharing and children's storytelling. Infant and Child Development.
(Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2014
Tamis-LeMonda, C.S., Baumwell, L., & Kuchirko, Y. Parental responsiveness and
scaffolding of language development. Encyclopedia of Language Development.
(Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2014
Tamis-LeMonda, C.S., Kuchirko, Y., & C.S., Song, L. Why is infant language learning
facilitated by parental responsiveness? Current Perspectives in Psychological Science.
(Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2014
Tamis-LeMonda, C.S., Song, L., Luo, R., Kuchirko, Y., Kahana-Kalman, R., Yoshikawa, H., &
Raufman, J. Children's language growth in Spanish and English across early development: association to school readiness. Developmental Neuropsychology.
(Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2014
Tamis-LeMonda, C.S., Kuchirko, Y., & Tafuro, L From action to interaction: mothers'
contingent responsiveness to infant exploration across cultural communities. IEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development.
(Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2013
