Laura

Hsu

Academic Title

Department Chair and Associate Professor, Applied Human Development & Human Services

Research Interests
  • Identity
  • Self-Concept
  • Self-Integration
  • Transformative Justice
Research Summary

My research centers on fostering identity development and examining the role identity can play for students, teachers, and caregivers in transformative justice.

Education
  • Ed.D., Human Development and Psychology, Harvard Graduate School of Education
  • Ed.M., Human Development and Psychology, Harvard Graduate School of Education
  • B.A., Psychology, University of California, Berkeley
Areas of Expertise
  • Identity
  • Self-Concept
  • Self-Integration
Recent Publications

Dobbs, K. L., Hsu, L. M., Garrone-Shufran, S., Barber, N., Kourouma, F., Perez-Castillo, Y., & Rich, S. (2022). Centering youth voices: An interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approach to civic engagement. Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies, 40(2).

Anand, D., & Hsu, L. M. (2022). Scrutinizing whiteness in “antiracist” children’s literature: For whom and by whom? Journal of Children’s Literature, 48(1), 45-55.

Anand, D., & Hsu, L. M. (2020). COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter: Examining anti-Asian racism and anti Blackness in US education. International Journal of Multidisciplinary Perspectives in Higher Education, 5(1), 190-199. https://doi.org/10.32674/jimphe.v5i1.2656

Anand, D., & Hsu, L. M. (2020). Think outside the book: Transformative justice using children’s literature in the classroom. Journal of Curriculum Studies Research, 2(2), 122-143. https://doi.org/10.46303/jcsr.2020.13

Hsu, L. M., & O‘Brien, G. (2020). The integration of self in relationships. In T. Bidell & M. F. Mascolo (Eds.), Handbook of integrative psychological development (pp. 374-391). Boston, MA: Taylor & Francis Group.

Honors and Awards
  • Selected Speaker, Last Lecture, Merrimack College, 2016.
  • Inducted Member, Omicron Delta Kappa, Merrimack College, 2016.
  • Selected Speaker, Psi Chi Induction Ceremony, Merrimack College, 2014.