Andrea Buhler-WassmannAssistant Professor of Human Development & Family Studiesshe/they/ella

I study how Latine caregivers nurture their children’s early development and learning through everyday practices in their home environments, with the goal of identifying culturally relevant ways to support caregivers and create environments that promote family and child well-being. My scholarship is organized around two central themes: (1) how caregivers navigate stressful contexts and the intrinsic, relational, and systemic factors that promote healthy socioemotional and psychobiological development, and (2) highlighting cultural strengths in caregiver-child interactions.

My focus on Latine families stems from my personal connection to these communities as a Latina scholar and my conviction to promote social justice through developmental science. I am dedicated to working in partnership with community organizations that serve Latine families, as well as students from ethnoculturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

Selected Publications

Hibel, L. C., Boyer, C. J., Buhler-Wassmann, A. C., & Ugarte, E. (2023). Deviations in stress and support: Associations with parenting emotions across the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Family Psychology, 37(7), 1072-1082. https://doi.org/10.1037/fam0001138

Boyer, C. J., Ugarte, E., Buhler-Wassmann, A. C., & Hibel, L. C. (2022). Latina mothers navigating COVID-19: Within- and between-family stress processes over time. Family Relations, 72(1), 23-39. https://doi.org/10.1111/fare.12748

Hibel, L. C., Boyer, C. J., Buhler-Wassmann, A. C., & Shaw, B. J. (2021). The psychological and economic toll of the COVID-19 pandemic on Latina mothers in primarily low-income essential worker families. Traumatology, 27(1), 40-47. https://doi.org/10.1037/trm0000293

Buhler-Wassmann, A. C., Hibel, L. C., Fondren, K., & Valentino, K. (2021). Child diurnal cortisol differs based on profiles of maternal emotion socialization in high risk, low income, and racially diverse families. Developmental Psychobiology, 63(3), 538-555. https://doi.org/10.1002/dev.22048

Buhler-Wassmann, A. C., & Hibel, L. C. (2021). Studying caregiver-infant co-regulation in dynamic, diverse cultural contexts: A call to action. Infant Behavior and Development, 64, 101586. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2021.101586

For a full list of publications, see Buhler-Wassmann’s CV.