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Craig H. Hart

Director - Faculty Center
Faculty Center Administrators
Email: craig_hart@byu.edu

Office Location: 3770 B HBLL

(801) 422-5939

Biography

https://familylife.byu.edu/directory/craig-hart

Education

  • BYU alumnus
  • Ph.D. Purdue University, 1987

Professional Activities

Craig H. Hart received his Ph.D. from Purdue University in 1987. He was formerly an Associate Professor in the School of Human Ecology at Louisiana State University. He served as Chair of Marriage, Family, and Human Development in the School of Family Life at Brigham Young University from 1998 to 2004, was an associate dean in the College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences from 2006-2009, and served as Associate Academic Vice President for Faculty at BYU from 2009 to 2018. He has been the director of the BYU Faculty Center since 2018.

Dr. Hart has authored and co-authored numerous scientific papers on parenting/familial linkages with children’s social development and on developmentally appropriate practices in early childhood education. His work has appeared in leading developmental science journals such as Child Development, Development and Psychopathology, and Developmental Psychology, and in early childhood development and education research journals including Early Childhood Research Quarterly. His collaborative research program has focused on cultural influences, with studies conducted in Australia, Italy, Russia, Turkey and in various parts of Asia including China, Japan, Malaysia, and Taiwan, and in several research sites in the United States. Published research that he has been involved in has been cited over 16,000 times by national and international scholars in his field.

He has also published two edited books entitled Children on Playgrounds: Research Perspectives and Applications and Integrated Curriculum and Developmentally Appropriate Practice: Birth to Age Eight. He has served on several journal editorial boards, was associate editor for Early Childhood Research Quarterly (1995-2006) and is co-editor of Wiley/Blackwell’s Handbook of Childhood Social Development (Now in its 3rd edition). Dr. Hart recently served on the Bio-behavioral and Behavioral Sciences subcommittee, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD).