Sandra Calvert | |
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![]() Sandra Calvert in 2014 | |
Born | West Virginia, United States |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | West Virginia University Pennsylvania State University University of Kansas |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Psychology |
Institutions | Georgetown University |
Sandra L. Calvert is a developmental and child psychologist, whose scholarship illuminates the children's media area, including policy implications.[1][2] Calvert is currently professor of psychology,[1][2] and an affiliated faculty member at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University.[3] Calvert is also the co-founder and Director of the Children's Digital Media Center,[2] a multi-university research initiative funded primarily by multiple grants from the National Science Foundation,[4] as well as by private foundations. Calvert served as chair of the department of psychology at Georgetown University from 2006 to 2009.[1]