Christine M. McWayne

Christine M. McWayne

New York University, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development

Assistant Professor of Applied Psychology

Phone: (212) 998-5576
Email: cm106@nyu.edu

• Applied Psychology
• School Psychology
• Applied Psychology

Christine McWayne, Ph.D. joins the faculty of the Department of Applied Psychology at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development as an Assistant Professor in the School Psychology Program. She received her B.S. in Psychology from Abilene Christian University, her M.S.Ed. in Psychological Services and her Ph.D. in the APA-approved School, Community, and Clinical-Child Psychology program from the University of Pennsylvania. During her graduate training at the University of Pennsylvania, she served as a principal investigator of a Head Start Research Scholars Grant funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Through this work, she examined parenting practices in Head Start families as they related to children's school readiness. At NYU, Dr. McWayne is involved in partnership-and community-based research within the Head Start community in New York City. Generally, her research interests include: family involvement in children's education in low-income communities, helping to establish a whole-child understanding of low-income, preschool children's school readiness competencies, preschool parenting within an urban low-income context, and validating assessment instruments and intervention for low-income, preschool children and their families. Her dissertation research has focused on the examination of multiple dimensions of school readiness within the context of classroom quality and the social and structural dimensions of urban neighborhoods. Her most recent research, along with her colleague, Associate Professor Gigliana Melzi, involves the investigation of family involvement practices among Latino Head Start parents and is supported by funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Administration for Children and Families (ACF).