Marc H. Bornstein

MARC H. BORNSTEIN earned a B.A. from Columbia College and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Yale University, was awarded honorary doctorates from the University of Padua and University of Trento, and is Honorarprofessor at the University of Heidelberg.  Bornstein holds professional positions at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the Institute for Fiscal Studies, London, and UNICEF. Bornstein previously held faculty positions at Princeton University and New York University as well as academic appointments in Munich and Marbach in Germany, London, Bristol, and Oxford in the UK, Paris, New York, Tokyo, Bamenda in Cameroon, Seoul in South Korea, Padua, Trento, and Chieti-Pescara in Italy, Santiago in Chile, Toronto in Canada, and Tufts University. Bornstein is President Emeritus of the Society for Research in Child Development, serves on the Executive Committee of the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development, and is a past member of the SRCD Governing Council and Executive Committee of the International Congress of Infant Studies.

Bornstein is Editor Emeritus of Child Development and founding Editor of Parenting: Science and Practice. He has administered both Federal and Foundation grants, sits on the editorial boards of several professional journals, is a member of scholarly societies in a variety of disciplines, and consults for governments, foundations, universities, publishers, scientific journals, and the media. Bornstein led revision of children’s toy and safety guidelines for the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. Bornstein was named to the Top 20 Authors for Productivity in Developmental Science by the American Educational Research Association. He has published hundreds of scientific papers and chapters and is author or editor of dozens of books in experimental, methodological, comparative, developmental, and cultural science as well as neuroscience, pediatrics, and aesthetics. Bornstein is also author of children’s books, videos, and puzzles in The Child’s World and Baby Explorer series.

Bornstein was a J. S. Guggenheim Foundation Fellow, and he received a Research Career Development Award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.  He also received the C. S. Ford Cross-Cultural Research Award from the Human Relations Area Files, the B. R. McCandless Young Scientist Award, the Division 7 Award for Distinguished Contributions to Developmental Psychology, and the Urie Bronfenbrenner Award for Lifetime Contribution to Developmental Psychology in the Service of Science and Society from the American Psychological Association, a United States PHS Superior Service Award and an Award of Merit from the National Institutes of Health, two Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellowships, four Awards for Excellence from the American Mensa Education & Research Foundation, the Arnold Gesell Prize from the Theodor Hellbrügge Foundation, the Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Research and Theory Award and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development, the Translational Research Award from the International Congress of Infant Studies, and both the Distinguished International Contributions to Child Development Award and the Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Child Development Award from the Society for Research in Child Development.

Bornstein has held faculty positions at Princeton University and New York University as well as academic appointments as Visiting Scientist at the Max-Planck-Institut für Psychiatrie in Munich, Visiting Fellow at University College London, Professeur Invité at the Laboratoire de Psychologie Expérimentale in the Université René Descartes in Paris, Child Clinical Fellow at the Institute for Behavior Therapy in New York, Visiting Professor at the University of Tokyo, Professeur Invité at the Laboratoire de Psychologie du Développement et de l’Éducation de l’Enfant in the Sorbonne in Paris, Visiting Fellow of the British Psychological Society, Visiting Scientist at the Human Development Resource Centre in Bamenda, Cameroon, Visiting Scholar at the Institute of Psychology in Seoul National University in Seoul, South Korea, Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Cognitive Science in the University of Trento, Italy, and Profesor Visitante at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago, Chile. Bornstein is President-elect of the Society for Research in Child Development, where he was a member of the Governing Council, and he sat on the Executive Committee of the International Society of Infancy Studies. Bornstein was named to the Top 20 Authors for Productivity in Developmental Science by the American Educational Research Association.
Bornstein is author/coauthor/editor/coeditor of 56 books, and he is author of or consultant on several children’s books, videos, and puzzles in The Child’s World and Baby Explorer series. His has published widely in experimental, methodological, comparative, developmental, and cultural science as well as neuroscience, pediatrics, and aesthetics. Bornstein has administered both Federal and Foundation grants, sits on the editorial boards of several professional journals, is a member of scholarly societies in a variety of disciplines, and consults for governments, foundations, universities, publishers, scientific journals, the media, and UNICEF. Bornstein is Editor Emeritus of Child Development and founding Editor of Parenting: Science and Practice. Visit www.cfr.nichd.nih.gov and www.tandfonline.com/HPAR.