Editor in Chief of The Child
Richard A. Shweder is a cultural anthropologist and the William Claude Reavis Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago. Shweder has written several books on cultural psychology and human development, including most recently Why Do Men Barbecue? Recipes for Cultural Psychology.
Editors of The Child
Thomas R. Bidell is an independent scholar who received his graduate training in cognitive development at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Anne C. Dailey is the Evangeline Starr Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the University of Connecticut School of Law.
Suzanne D. Dixon is a behavioral and developmental pediatrician, a professor emerita at the University of California, San Diego, and a clinical professor at the University of Washington.
Peggy J. Miller is a developmental and cultural psychologist and a professor in the Departments of Communication, Psychology, and Educational Psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
John Modell is professor emeritus of education and sociology at Brown University.
Advisors for The Child
| Ronald G. Barr | Joel Best | Jerome Bruner |
| Michael Cole | William Damon | Judy Dunn |
| Wolfgang Edelstein | Heidi M. Feldman | Heidi Fung |
| Carol Gilligan | Susan Goldin-Meadow | Joseph P. Gone |
| Jacqueline J. Goodnow | Linda Gordon | Harvey J. Graff |
| Patricia Marks Greenfield | Neal Halfon | Giyoo Hatano |
| Robin L. Jarrett | Jerome Kagan | Sudhir Kakar |
| Lourdes de León | Robert A. LeVine | Hazel Rose Markus |
| Vonnie McLoyd | Jay Mechling | Peter C. Murrell, Jr. |
| Dorothy E. Roberts | Barbara Rogoff | Diana T. Slaughter-Defoe |
| Martin T. Stein | Collette A. Suda | Michael S. Wald |
| Thomas S. Weisner | Ruth Enid Zambrana |