
Visiting Assistant Professor of Education and Africana Studies
Education
M.S. Hunter College of the City University of New York (2011)
Ed.M. Harvard University (2014)
M.A. University of Wisconsin, Madison (2020)
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, Madison (2022)
Courses
AFR 358 / PSYC 377 SEM
Mapping Anti-Bias Education (not offered 2023/24)AFR 384 / PSYC 363 SEM
Media, Race, and U.S. Black Families (not offered 2023/24)Scholarship/Creative Work
Selected Publications
McClain, A.K., & Mares, M.-L. (2022). Media messages: Intersections of media and ethnic-racial socialization among African American families. Research in Human Development, 18(4), 311 – 329. https://doi.org/10.1080/15427609.2021.2010491
McClain, A. K. (2021). Connecting research, children’s media, and identity during the U.S. Black Lives Matter movement. Journal of Children and Media, 15(1), 122-125. https://doi.org/10.1080/17482798.2020.1857282 (to be reprinted in V. Katz & B. Bond (Eds.), Children and media research and practice during the crises of 2020. Routledge.)
McClain, A. K. (2020). Angles of the youth digital divide. International Journal of Communication, 14, 3499-3501.
McClain, A. K., & Mares, M.-L. (2020). Race and representation: Black parents’ hopes for their children’s media. Center for Communication Research. University of Wisconsin-Madison. https://ccr.commarts.wisc.edu/projects/childrens-and-parents-responses-to-media/
McClain, A., & Grimm, S. B. (2020, March 18). Public media: Connecting family learning across settings. Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop. http://joanganzcooneycenter.org/publication/public-media-connecting-family-learning-across-settings/
McClain, A. (2020, March 5). Parents: Connecting family learning across settings. Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop. https://joanganzcooneycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/jgcc_parents_famlab.pdf
Sobel, K., & McClain, A. (2020, March 5). Libraries: Connecting family learning across settings. Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop. http://joanganzcooneycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/jgcc_librariesconnectinglearning.pdf
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