| HOLLI ANN TONYAN | Curriculum Vitæ
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Department of Psychology
California State University, Northridge
18111 Nordhoff Street
Northridge, CA 91330
Assistant Professor. Department of Psychology. California State University, Northridge. July, 2007 to present.
Lecturer. Monash University. Faculty of Education. July, 2004 to June, 2007.
Monash University. Higher Education Development Unit. Melbourne, Australia
Graduate Certificate in Higher Education . 2007.
University of California, Santa Cruz. Developmental Psychology. Supervisor: Barbara Rogoff.
Post-doctoral Fellowship. 2001 – 2003.
University of California, Los Angeles. Psychological Studies in Education. Advisor: Carollee Howes.
Honors: NICHD Predoctoral Trainee · Honors in Qualifying Exams · Summer Research Mentorship Program Selectee · Spencer Research Training Fellow
Ph.D. Fall, 2001. Dissertation title: Emerging emotion regulation: Describing behavioral strategies children and their caregivers use to negotiate emotionally challenging situations in their everyday lives.
M.A. Spring, 2000. Thesis title: Children in foster care: Examining attachment relationships formed in early intervention.
Carleton College. Psychology. Thesis Advisor: Kathleen Galotti.
Honors: Phi Beta Kappa · Dean’s list · Psi Chi · Academic Distinction in Major · Academic Distinction in Integrative Exercise (Senior Thesis)
B.A. 1995, magna cum laude. Thesis title: Day care and the use of peer-group entry strategies in social situations.
Tonyan, H. A. (in press). Editorial. Australian Research in Early Childhood Education.
Tonyan, H. A. (in press). Considering the social nature of emotions. Every Child.
Auld, G., & Tonyan, H. A. (in press). Reconsidering study guides for distance education: A methodological framework for digitising study guides. Paper to be published in the proceedings of the annual conference of the Australian Association for Research in Education, Adelaide, Australia.
Tonyan, H. A. (2006). Using functionalist and sociocultural theories to examine coregulation of distress in mother-child interaction. New Zealand Research in Early Childhood Education Journal, 9, 105-114.
Tonyan, H. A. (2005). Coregulating distress: Mother-child interactions around children’s distress from 14 to 24 months. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 29, 433–444.
Tonyan, H. A., & Howes, C. (2003). Exploring patterns in time children spend in a variety of child care activities: Associations with quality of care, ethnicity, and gender. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 192, 1-22.
Cheeseborough, L., Alkin, M. C., & Tonyan, H. A. (2001). Perceptions of fellows’ participation in the Career-Based Outreach Program. Outreach Evaluation Occasional Report Series, No. 1. Graduate School of Education and Information Studies: Los Angeles.
Tonyan, H. A. (2001). Understanding training in Career-Based Outreach Program. Outreach Evaluation Occasional Report Series, No. 5. Graduate School of Education and Information Studies: Los Angeles.
Tonyan, H. A., & Eisenberg, N. (2001). Implementing Career-Based Outreach Program in high school sites. Outreach Evaluation Occasional Report Series, No. 7. Graduate School of Education and Information Studies: Los Angeles.
Howes, C., & Tonyan, H. A. (2000). Links between adult and peer relationships across four developmental periods. In K. A. Kerns & A. M. Neal-Barnett (Eds.), Examining associations between parent-child and peer relationships (pp. 85-113). NY: Greenwood/Praeger.
Howes, C., & Tonyan, H. A. (1999). Peer relations. In L. Balter & C. Tamis-LeMonda (Eds.), Child psychology: A handbook of contemporary issues (pp.143-157). Philadelphia: Psychology Press.
Tonyan, H. A. (2005). Talking about or just plain talking: Functional analysis of language used during mother-child interaction around objects. Presentation at the annual Australian Research Early Childhood Education Conference, Melbourne, Australia.
Tonyan, H. A. (2005). Surveying knowledge of child development and early childhood educational practice. Presentation at the annual meeting of the Australian Association for Research in Education, Melbourne, Australia.
Tonyan, H. A., & Howes, C. (2003). Distress- and Play-Specific Maternal Behavior as Related to Security of Attachment and Emotion Regulation from 14 to 24 Months. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Child Development, Tampa, FL.
Reis, O., Azmitia, M., & Tonyan, H. A. (2003). Patterns of adolescents’ social support from family, friends, and teachers as related to mental health: A person-oriented approach. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Child Development, Tampa, FL.
Tonyan, H. A. (2002). Emotion regulation and attachment in unstructured interactions: Infants and their mothers in emotionally challenging episodes. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the International Society on Infant Studies, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Tonyan, H. A. (2001). Modeling growth in conflict resolution skills over time among preschool-age children in difficult life circumstances. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Child Development, Minneapolis, MN.
Tonyan, H. A., Ritchie, S., and Howes, C. (2000). How do children spend their time in child care? Examining child care activities by race, quality, age, and gender. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the National Association for the Education of Young Children, San Francisco, CA.
Tonyan, H. A., & Howes, C. (2000). Using attachment to mother, attachment to teachers, and relations with peers to predict emotion dysregulation. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the International Society on Infant Studies, Brighton, UK.
Howes, C., Rosenblatt, S., & Tonyan, H. A. (1999). Using observational data to describe caregiving interactions within a network of caregivers in Early Head Start. Paper presented as part of a symposium entitled Interactional processes in Early Head Start Intervention studies: What can we learn from observational methods?, Susan McBride, Chair. Society for Research in Child Development, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Tonyan, H. A., & Howes, C. (1999). Links from teacher-child attachment to friendship quality: Middle childhood to early adolescence. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Child Development, Albuquerque, NM.
Tonyan, H. A., & Howes, C. (1998). Teacher-child relationships: Comparing children with experience in foster care to those without such experience. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the International Conference of Infant Studies, Atlanta, GA.
Tonyan, H. A. (1995). Peer group entry strategies as related to child care experiences. Presentation at the Minnesota Undergraduate Research Conference, Mankato, MN.
Invited Workshop Participant. International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development, Lima, Peru. July 9 – July 14, 2001.
Graduate Student Researcher.
Assistant to the Coordinator. Learning and Teaching Center, Carleton College. 1995 – 1996.
Teacher’s Aide. Infant Room, Step-By-Step Montessori Preschool, 1993 – 1994.
Co-Principal Investigator (with Glenn Auld), $10,000. Creating spaces for critical reflection: The development of an approach to facilitate critical, guided reflection among students in off-campus learning environments. Enhancing the Monash Experience Grant. Center for Learning and Teaching Studies, Monash University, 2005.
Co-Principal Investigator (with Marilyn Fleer), $6,000. International study of pedagogy and play 0 to 36 months: Australian component. Monash University Faculty of Education, 2005.
Principal Investigator, $6,000. Faculty of Education Small Project Grant. Children’s early social lives: Exploring the sociocultural contexts of children’s social and emotional development among Mexican-immigrant families in Los Angeles. Monash University Faculty of Education, 2005.
Co-Principal Investigator (with Margarita Azmitia & Olaf Reis), $49,991. A Short-term Longitudinal Study on the Role of Social Support in Underrepresented Minority Students’ Adjustment, Identity, Grades, and Retention in their First Year of College. Research Augmentation Grant from UC All-Campus Consortium Of Research on Diversity (ACCORD), 2002-2003.
Latin American Center Small Grant. Latin American Center, $4,600, University of California, Los Angeles, 1999 – 2000.
Instructor. Fall, 2003. Psychological Foundations of Primary Education. California State University, Northridge, Educational Psychology Department. Undergraduate class, lecture format.
Instructor. Spring, 2003. Children’s Earliest Relationships. University of California, Santa Cruz, Psychology Department. Undergraduate class, seminar format. Enrollment: 16 students.
Instructor. Spring, 2002. Social & Emotional Development. University of California, Santa Cruz, Psychology Department. Undergraduate class, lecture format. Enrollment: 60 students.
Teaching Assistant. Fall, 2000. Introduction to the Practice of Statstics. Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles. Graduate class.
Teaching Assistant. Fall, 1998. Introduction to Educational Psychology. Teacher Education Program, University of California, Los Angeles. Graduate class.
Teaching Assistant. Spring, 1995. Advanced Measurement & Statistics. Psychology, Carleton College.
Perspectives on Learning
The Cultural Nature of Human Development
Psychological Foundations of Education
Applied Developmental Psychology
Social and Emotional Development
Emotion in Early Childhood Education
Research Design and Methods in Education
Observational Methods and Reflective Teaching
Statistical Analysis in Educational Research
Children’s Earliest Relationships
Child Care: Developmental Implications
Postdoctoral Fellow Representative. University of California, Santa Cruz
Society for Research in Child Development
International Society for Culture and Activity Research
International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development
International Society on Infant Studies
National Association for the Education of Young Children
American Psychological Association
American Psychological Society
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