Maria Rosario T. de Guzman is an Associate Professor and Extension Specialist in the Department of Child, Youth and Family Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her work focuses on the intersection of culture, migration, family life, and child and adolescent development. She is also interested in how sociocultural factors relate to children's prosocial socialization.

Jill Brown is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Creighton University. She received her BA and her PhD from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. While her roots are in the Midwest, her work has taken her to other parts of the world: she was a Peace Corps volunteer in Namibia and received a Fulbright Fellowship to study in Varanasi, India. She is the current President of the Society of Cross Cultural Research. Her current research focuses on kinship, adoption and socially distributed child care and family life, and cognition and thinking across cultures.

Carolyn Pope Edwards is Willa Cather Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Child, Youth, and Family Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her interests center on social and moral development in cultural contexts, socialization processes within the family, and international early childhood education. She has conducted research and held research positions at universities in Italy, Norway, and Kenya.

Joyce A. Arditti, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Human Development
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (United States)

Jesse Beatson, MSc (cand.)
Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry
McGill University (Canada)

Jonathon J. Beckmeyer, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
School of Public Health
Indiana University (United States)

Michelle Bemiller, Ph.D
Associate Professor of Sociology
Walsh University (United States)

Yvonne Bohr, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
York University (Canada)

Jill Brown, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
Creighton University (United States)

Stephen Chen, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
Wellesley College (United States)

Kristen E. Cheney, Ph.D.
Senior Lecturer
Children & Youth Studies
International Institute of Social Studies (Netherlands)

Maria Rosario T. de Guzman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Extension Specialist
Department of Child, Youth and Family Studies
University of Nebraska-Lincoln (United States)

Ruth Ellingsen, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior (United States)

Aileen S. Garcia
Doctoral Candidate
Department of Child, Youth and Family Studies
University of Nebraska-Lincoln (United States)

Shelene Gentz, Ph.D
Lecturer
Department of Psychology
University of Namibia

Brita Gjerstad, Ph.D.
Senior Researcher
International Research Institute of Stavanger (Norway)

Edmund 'Ted' Hamann, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Teaching, Learning, & Teacher Education
University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Berit Ingersoll-Dayton, Ph.D.
Professor
School of Social Work
University of Michigan (United States)

Jeehun Kim, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Social Studies Education
Inha University (South Korea)

Natasza Kosakowska-Berezecka, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Division of Cross-Cultural Psychology and Psychology of Gender
Institute of Psychology
University of Gdansk (Poland)

Kuba Krys, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Institute of Psychology
Polish Academy of Sciences (Poland)

Anna Kwiatkowska, Ph.D.
Professor
Institute of Psychology
Polish Academy of Sciences (Poland)

Patricia Lester, MD
Jane and Marc Nathanson Family Professor of Psychiatry
UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior (United States)

Cindy H. Liu, Ph.D.
Assistant Research Professor
Child Development Unit
University of Massachusetts Boston (United States)

Yao Lu, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Sociology
Columbia University (United States)

Ana A. Lucero-Liu, Ph.D.
Independent Scholar (United States)

Mandi MacDonald, Ph.D.
Lecturer in Social Work
School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work
Queens University, Belfast (Northern Ireland, UK)

Catherine Mogil, PsyD
Assistant Clinical Professor
UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior (United States)

Gunhild Odden, Ph.D.
Director, Centre for Intercultural Communication
Associate Professor, VID Specialized University (Norway)

Sumie Okazaki, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Applied Psychology
New York University (United States)

Carolyn Pope Edwards, Ed.D.
Professor Emeritus
Departments of Psychology and Child, Youth and Family Studies
University of Nebraska-Lincoln (United States)

Sureeporn Punpuing, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Institute for Population and Social Research
Mahidol University (Thailand)

Heather Rae-Espinoza, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Human Development
California State University, Long Beach (United States)

Oleksandr Ryndyk
Researcher
Centre for Intercultural Communication
VID Specialized University (Norway)

Mónica Ruiz-Casares, Ph.D
Associate Professor
Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry
McGill University (Canada)
and SHERPA-Institut Universitaire
Centre Integré Universitaire de Santé et de Services Sociaux du Centre-Ouest-de-l'île-de-Montréal

Juan Sánchez García, Ph.D.
Director, Research and Innovation Program for Educational Improvement
Instituto de Investigación, Innovación y de Estudios de Posgrado de la Educación (México)

Marcela Sotomayor-Peterson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Escuela de Psicología y Ciencias de la Comunicación
Universidad de Sonora (México)

Justyna Swidrak
Doctoral Candidate
Institute of Psychology
Polish Academy of Sciences (Poland)

Kanchana Tangchonlatip, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Institute for Population and Social Research
Mahidol University (Thailand)

Minerva D. Tuliao
Doctoral Candidate
Department of Educational Administration
University of Nebraska-Lincoln (United States)

Leslie Wang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology
University of Massachusetts Boston (United States)

Thomas S. Weisner, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
Department of Anthropology
University of California, Los Angeles (United States)

Laura Yakas
Doctoral Student
School of Social Work and Department of Anthropology
University of Michigan (United States)

Magdalena Zadkowska, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Social Sciences, Division of Sociology of Everyday Life
University of Gdansk (Poland)

Víctor Zúñiga, Ph.D.
Professor of Sociology
Doctorate Program in the Social Sciences
Tecnológico de Monterrey (México)

Winner of the 2019 Ursula Gielen Global Psychology Book Award

"[In this book] The editors and contributors challenge mainstream parenting and child development scholars by drawing attention to non-typical parenting conditions that impact millions of children worldwide. Cutting across disciplinary and cultural boundaries, each chapter systematically tells stories and presents data of children raised by parents from afar in diverse family structures. Contributors tackle distinct parenting-from-afar conditions, ranging from incarcerated parents to military and refugee families to immigrant families, all in a well-balanced and appropriately-sensitive manner. This powerful volume is a must-read, pioneering compendium for scientists, practitioners, educators, interventionists, and policy makers." -- Gustavo Carlo, Millsap Professor of Diversity and Multicultural Studies and Co-Director, Center for Children and Families Across Cultures, University of Missouri

"In Parenting from Afar, international scholars describe the diversity of family arrangements across physical distances, expanding our views of traditional family life, roles, and coping, as well as questioning norms and beliefs about parenting, child rearing, kinship, and the 'normal family.' Each fascinating chapter identifies the centrality of the ecocultural context for understanding family, challenging established developmental theories and setting the stage for future research that must address such diversity." -- Deborah Best, William L. Poteat Professor of Psychology, Wake Forest University

"What these editors do so well is provide convincing evidence that families that are close-knit while living far apart are not only found in the 'majority world' but also exist, albeit largely ignored in the scholarly literature, across the Western Educated Industrialized Rich and democratic world. This book should be required reading for all who study 'the family.'" -- Jonathan Tudge, Professor of Human Development and Family Studies, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro