Book Talk | Niobe Way | Rebels with a Cause

Join the Institute for Public Knowledge and the Center on Modernity in Transition on Wednesday, May 7th at 5:30 PM for a book talk with Niobe Way. She will discuss her new book Rebels with a Cause: Reimagining Boys, Ourselves, and Our Culture with Carol Gilligan.

Niobe Way is Professor of Developmental Psychology at NYU, the founder of the Project for the Advancement of Our Common Humanity (PACH; pach.org), creative advisor of agapi, and the Principal Investigator on the Listening Project. She was the President of the Society for Research on Adolescence (SRA), received her B.A. from U.C. Berkeley, her doctorate from the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University, and was a National Institute of Mental Health postdoctoral fellow at Yale University in the psychology department.

Her work focuses on social and emotional development and how cultural ideologies shape families and child development in the U.S. and China. She has been researching social and emotional development of adolescents for 35 years, and has authored or co-authored over one hundred peer reviewed journal articles and seven single authored, co-authored, or co-edited books.

Carol Gilligan is a psychologist and writer, and her groundbreaking book In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women’s Development has been translated into 18 languages. With her students, she coauthored and coedited four books on women’s psychology and girls’ development: Meeting at the Crossroads, Between Voice and Silence, Making Connections, and Women, Girls, and Psychotherapy: Reframing Resistance. At Harvard University, where she was the first Graham Professor of Gender Studies, her award-winning research led to the founding of the university’s Center on Gender and Education. She is now University Professor at New York University and lives with her husband in New York City and the Berkshires.