Rate My Professor Camelia Hostinar

Hostinar's research examines how social environments influence child and adolescent health via stress reactivity, social support, early life stress, HPA axis and autonomic nervous system activity, inflammation, loneliness, childhood adversity, resilience, parenting, and air pollution effects. She leads NIH-funded projects, including R01 HD104185 on the development of social disconnection in youth. Notable awards include UC Davis Chancellor’s Fellow (2026-2030), Dean’s Faculty Fellow (2022-2025), Boyd McCandless Award from APA Division 7 (2022), Academic Senate Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award (2023), and Early Career Contributions Award from Society for Research in Child Development (2019). Key publications are "Stress in Childhood" (Cambridge University Press, in press), "Clearing the air: A systematic review of studies on air pollution and childhood brain outcomes" (Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 2024), "Generation COVID: Coming of age amid the pandemic" (Current Opinion in Psychology, 2024), and "The effect of acute stress on executive function in children: Moderation by parasympathetic nervous system activity" (Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2026). She is an editorial board member for Development and Psychopathology and consulting editor for Child Development.