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Interview w/Tracy Esposito
College of New Jersey
Interdepartmental Black Studies
All:Pomona:
Eric Alexander Hurley, PhD. Hello and Welcome.
Assistant Professor of
Psychology & Black Studies
Pomona & the Claremont Colleges
Graduate Faculty, SBOS, Claremont Graduate University
To begin with, professionally I am anchored by a personal commitment to doing work with implications for
the social and educational benefit of African American and other minority children. This commitment has lead me to pursue the kind of basic
research and scholarship that helps to inform discussion of the issues concerning these children.
My scholarly interests are also guided by a contextualist sensibility
about the nature of cognitive development and are influenced by recent extensions of Vygotskys Sociocultural theory. Our work in the Cultural Factors lab
builds on those ideas with a focus on aspects of African American culture, especially as they are distinguished from the mainstream of US culture. Our
work seeks build on the ideas in three related directions. Continued in Current Scholarship.
