Rate My Professor Cammie McBride

Catherine (Cammie) McBride is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Science and Associate Dean for Research in the College of Health and Human Sciences at Purdue University. She joined Purdue in 2022 after a distinguished career at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, where she served as Choh-Ming Li Professor of Psychology from 2020 to 2022, Professor from 2003 to 2020, and Associate Dean for Research in the Faculty of Social Sciences from 2012 to 2016. Earlier positions include Associate Professor and Assistant Professor at the same institution from 1996 onward, following a postdoctoral fellowship at Florida State University from 1994 to 1996. McBride earned her Ph.D. and M.A. from the University of Southern California in 1994 and 1992, respectively, and her B.A. from Oberlin College in 1989. Her research specializes in early literacy and mathematics development across cultures, reading and writing impairment including dyslexia and dysgraphia, and parenting influences on learning.

McBride has authored more than 250 peer-reviewed journal articles and edited six books, including Children’s Literacy Development: A Cross-Cultural Perspective on Learning to Read and Write (2016) and Coping with Dyslexia, Dysgraphia, and ADHD: A Global Perspective (2019). Key recent publications encompass studies on dyslexia similarities across Chinese societies (2025), parental math anxiety effects on children’s numeracy (2025), and genome-wide associations for language phenotypes (2024). She has received major grants, including over $5 million USD in 2021 as project coordinator for literacy and mathematics research integrating genetics, neuroscience, and cognitive skills, and $1.5 million from the Lilly Endowment for teacher training in literacy. Honors include the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award (2024), Association for Psychological Science Lifetime Achievement Award in Mentorship (2024), Khalifa International Award for Early Learning Best Research (2024), Purdue Acorn Award (2024), and Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science (2006). As past President of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading (2010-2012) and founding President of the Association for Reading and Writing in Asia (2016-2020), she has influenced the field through leadership, advisory roles with the International Dyslexia Association, and editorial positions including Associate Editor for journals such as Developmental Psychology and Reading and Writing.