May 19, 2003
Contact: Patricia Bury (509-963-2454/fax 509-963-2234/e-mail: buryp@cwu.edu)
ELLENSBURG, Wash. - Child rearing in the Central African
Republic will be the topic of a presentation by Dr. Hillary Fouts
Thursday, May 22, at Central Washington University. Fouts will discuss
weanling children’s emotions, and parental and caregiver practices
among two indigenous peoples, the Bofi foragers and farmers, during her
presentation, slated for 4 p.m. in Science Building 147.
Fouts, who graduated from CWU in 1997 with a double major in
psychology and anthropology, is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development’s section on
social and emotional development.
For her doctoral dissertation, she spent 13 months living
among the Bofi populations in and around the Congo Basin Rainforest and
collecting data about their way of life, along with data on social and
emotional development in early childhood.
Her current research interests include parent-offspring
conflicts in early childhood, maternal caregiving transitions during
pregnancy, caregiving transitions during weaning, infant care in
different cultural and socioeconomic contexts and caregiver sensitivity
in early childhood.
Fouts’ presentation is sponsored by the CWU anthropology,
biological sciences, psychology, and primate behavior and ecology
programs; Chimpanzee and Human Communication Institute (CHCI) and
Friends of Washoe.
Fouts is the daughter of CHCI co-directors Roger and Debbi
Fouts.
For more information, or for persons of disability to arrange
for reasonable accommodation, call (509) 963-2244, or (for the hearing
impaired) TDD (509) 963-2143.
