Vonnie McLoyd

Vonnie C. McLoyd is an American developmental psychologist. She won a 2007 MacArthur Fellowship.

Life

She graduated from Talladega College and from the University of Michigan.

She was a professor at University of Massachusetts, University of Michigan. She is a professor at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

She was associate editor at Child Development journal.

Works

• Vonnie C. McLoyd; Nancy E. Hill; Kenneth A. Dodge (January 2005). African American Family Life: Ecological and Cultural Diversity. Guilford Press. pp. 3–. ISBN 978-1-57230-995-1.
• Vonnie C. McLoyd; Laurence Steinberg (1 July 1998). Studying Minority Adolescents: Conceptual, Methodological, and Theoretical Issues. Psychology Press. pp. 251–. ISBN 978-1-135-69253-7.
• McLoyd, Vonnie C.; Jayaratne, Toby Epstein; Ceballo, Rosario; Borquez, Julio (1994). "Unemployment and Work Interruption among African American Single Mothers: Effects on Parenting and Adolescent Socioemotional Functioning". Child Development. Society for Research in Child Development. 65 (2): 562–589. doi:10.2307/1131402. JSTOR 1131402.
• McLoyd, Vonnie C. (1990). "The Impact of Economic Hardship on Black Families and Children: Psychological Distress, Parenting, and Socioemotional Development". Child Development. 61 (2): 311–346. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8624.1990.tb02781.x. ISSN 0009-3920.