Children and the Politics of Cultural Belonging

Dr Alice Hearst is an Associate Professor at the Smith College Department of Government. In addition to teaching public law at Smith College, she has been a visiting or adjunct professor at Cornell University Law School and the University of Utah Law School. Her research interests focus on state regulation of the family. She has published essays in the Law and Society Review and the Journal for the History of Childhood and Youth (for which she is the contemporary issues editor).