Fabienne Doucet

New York University
Assistant Professor

Fabienne Doucet brings an interdisciplinary perspective to her research and teaching in Early Childhood Education, given her training in human development and family studies, which stands at the crossroads of developmental psychology, sociology, and anthropology. Her research program addresses the educational experiences of immigrant and U.S.-born children of color and their families, with a particular focus on Haitian immigrants. Using ethnography, Doucet seeks to understand how structural factors, such as race, nationality, immigrant status, and socioeconomic status (1) impact upon children's educational experiences, and (2) contribute to parents' interactions with and understandings of the educational project. She has examined the everyday experiences of African American preschoolers, their parents' childrearing values and practices, and how parents and caregivers prepare African American children for the transition to school. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education with fellowships from the National Science Foundation and the Spencer Foundation. There she studied the adaptation and schooling experiences of 1.5- and 2nd-generation Haitian youth and their families under the umbrella of the Longitudinal Immigrant Student Adaptation study. Since the January 12, 2010 earthquake in Haiti, Doucet has been developing research proposals to conduct research that will broaden the knowledge base on Haitian children and families in Haiti. Doucet is Chair of the Haiti Working Group at the NYU Steinhardt Institute for Human Development and Social change and an affiliated faculty member of the NYU Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Doucet has a Ph.D. in human development and family studies from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Working Group

Early Childhood Interventions (ECI)

Additional Information

Email: fd30@nyu.edu
Homepage: http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/faculty_bios/view/Fabienne_Doucet