Nancy E Hill, Associate Professor

Research Summary:

My primary research interests include understanding parenting and family socialization in diverse contexts. Specifically, my research focuses on how parenting and family socialization vary across ethnic and socioeconomic groups and are influenced by neighborhood processes and other contexts in which families interact. In addition, my research focuses on demographic variations in the relations between family dynamics and children's school performance and other developmental outcomes. Recent and ongoing projects include Project PASS (Promoting Academic Success for Students), a longitudinal study between kindergarten and 4th grade examining family related predictors of children's early school performance; ACTION/ACCIONES, a multiethnic, longitudinal study of parental involvement in education at the transition between elementary and middle school; and collaborations with Study Group on Race, Culture, and Ethnicity?an interdisciplinary group of nationally known scholars brought together to develop theory and methodology for defining and understanding the cultural context within diverse families.

You can learn more by visiting my website at http://www.duke.edu/~nancy

Representative Publications:   (More Publications)

1. Bouffard, S. M. & Hill, N. E. (2005). Maternal perceptions of competence and children’s academic adjustment: Longitudinal relations across early elementary school.. Social Psychology of Education.
2. Hill, N. E., McBride Murry, V., & Anderson, V. D. (2005). Sociocultural contexts of African American families. African American family life: Ecological and Cultural Diversity, 21-44.
3. Hill, N. E., Lansford, J., Castellino, D. R., Nowlin, P., Dodge, K. A., Bates, J. & Petit, G. (2004). Parent-academic involvement as related to school behavior, achievement and aspirations: Demographic variations across adolescence. Child Development, 75(4), 1491-1509.
4. Hill, N. E. & Taylor, L. C. (2004). Parent-school involvement and children's academic achievement: Pragmatics and Issues. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 13(4), 161-164.
5. Hill, N.E., Bush, K. R., & Roosa, M. W. (2003). Relations between parenting and family socialization strategies and children’s mental health: Low income, Mexican American and Euro-American mothers’ and children’s perspectives. Child Development, 74, 189-204.
6. Hill, N. E., Craft, S. (2003). Parent-school involvement and children’s school performance: Mediated pathways among African American and Euro-American children. Journal of Educational Psychology, 95, 74-83.
7. Hill, N. E., Ramirez, C.L. & Dumka, L.E. (2003). Adolescents' career aspirations: A qualitative study of perceived barriors and family support among low-income ethnically diverse adolescents. Journal of Family Issues, 24, 934-959.