Janean Dilworth-BartAssociate Dean for Faculty Affairs; Professor

My scholarship revolves around how early developmental contexts help or hinder children’s development into competent, productive members of society. I address this broad issue by focusing on how parents and co-parents engage with children, especially in the Black community, and how multiple environmental pollutants and social risks impact young people’s school readiness, academic achievement, and court involvement. This work has earned me awards including the Wade and Bev Fetzer Fund for Excellence (2017), a fellowship in the Big Ten Academic Alliance–Academic Leadership Program (2017-18), and the Faculty Diversity Award from the UW System Institute on Race and Ethnicity (2009).

Research

Dilworth-Bart, J., Poehlmann-Tynan, J., Taub, A., Liesen, C.,  & Bolt, D. (2018). Effortful control and executive function as indices of emerging self-regulation in young children born preterm. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 42, 193-204. doi: 10.1016/j.ecrq.2017.09.07

Dilworth-Bart, J. (2012). Does executive function mediate SES and home quality associations with academic readiness? Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 27(3), 416-425. doi: 10.1016/j.ecresq.2012.02.002

Dilworth-Bart, J., & Moore, C. (2006). Mercy, Mercy Me: Social injustice and the prevention of environmental pollutant exposures among ethnic minority and poor children. Child Development, 77(2), 247-265. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2006.00868.x PMid:16611170

Find a more comprehensive list of my publications in my CV