Dr. Mary Anne Chalkley
Professor of Psychology

Academic History
 A. B., with Distinction in All Subjects, Cornell University, 1971,
 Ph. D., University of Minnesota,  1988
        
Expertise:

Child Development
Families and Children

Awards and Honors:

Phi Beta Kappa, Cornell University, Spring, 1971
UST Undergraduate Research and Collaborative Scholarship Faculty Award, 2007

Selected Publications:

Chalkley, M. A.  (1982).  The emergence of language as a social skill.  In Stanley A. Kuczaj II (Ed.), Language development:  Language, thought, and culture (pp.  75-111).  Hillsdale, N. J.:  Erlbaum

Chalkley, M. A., & Leik, R. K.  (1997).  The impact of escalating family stress on the effectiveness of Head Start intervention.  National Head Start Association Research Quarterly, 1(1), 157-162.

Chalkley, M. A., & Leik, R. K.  (1997).  Enhancing resilience:  The role of Head Start and cultural context in mitigating the long term impact of maternal depression on children.  National Head Start Association Research Quarterly, 1(2), 15-27.

Leik, R. K., & Chalkley, M. A.  (1997).  On the stability of network relations under stress.  Social Networks, 19, 63-74.

Leik, R. K., & Chalkley, M. A.  (1998).  There is change and there is change:  Telling one from the other.  National Head Start Association Dialog, 2, 89. (invited contribution)

Leik, R. K., Chalkley, M. A., & Peterson, N. J. (1991).  Policy implications of involving parents in Head Start.  In E. A. Anderson and R. Hula (Eds.), The reconstruction of family policy (217-235).  Westport, CT:  Greenwood.

Maratsos, M. P., & Chalkley, M. A. (1980).  The internal language of children's syntax:  The nature and ontogenesis of syntactic categories.  In Keith Nelson (Ed.), Children's language, Vol.II (pp. 127-214).  New York:  Gardner Press.

Maratsos, M. P., Fox, D. E. C., Becker, J. A., and Chalkley, M. A.  (1985).  Semantic restrictions on children's passives.  Cognition, 19, 167-191.

Selected Presentations (active projects):

Chalkley, M. A., & Droege, E. R. (March, 2007).  Parent-adolescent communication: How quality of relationship and topic affect conversations.  Poster to be presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, Massachusetts.

Chalkley, M. A., Hogan, C. E., Droege, E. R., & Halfmann, K. M. (July, 2004).  The impact of intervention and cultural context on mothers’ conversation and attitudes.  Poster presented at the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development Biennial Meeting, Ghent. Belgium

Chalkley, M. A. & Leik, R. K.   (April, 2001).  Early adolescent school performance:  The influence of gender, family, and Head Start.   Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Minnneapolis, MN.

 Chalkley, M. A., Winberg, T.  M., & Marquardt (July, 2004).  Factors affecting children’s problem solving.  Poster presented at the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development Biennial Meeting, Ghent. Belgium

Keller, M. M.,  & Chalkley, M. A.  (April, 2001).  Children’s implicit memory strategies. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, MN.