Rate My Professor Julie Rieker

Braungart-Rieker's research focuses on social and emotional development during infancy and early childhood, including attachment security, emotion regulation, parenting sensitivity, father involvement, and prenatal and postpartum family dynamics influencing childhood obesity. Her scholarly contributions include the co-edited volume Contexts for Young Child Flourishing: Evolution, Family and Society (Oxford University Press, 2016) and key publications such as Kuo and Braungart-Rieker (2022), 'Attachment configurations to mothers and fathers during infancy predict compliance, defiance, and effortful control in toddlerhood' in Early Childhood Research Quarterly; Planalp et al. (2021), 'Positive parenting, parenting stress, and child self-regulation patterns differ across maternal demographic risk' in Journal of Family Psychology; Gettler et al. (2021) on fathers' bonding in Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health; and Tran, Braungart-Rieker, and Wang (2020) on parental discipline and child literacy in Developmental Psychology. She has received the Graduate Student Union Outstanding Mentor Award (2020), Trailblazer Award (2017), and multiple Kaneb Teaching Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (1998-1999, 2002-2003). Braungart-Rieker serves on the editorial boards of Infant Mental Health Journal (2019-present) and Journal of Experimental Child Psychology (2015-present).