Maria Wong 21
Maria Wong
Assoc. Dean, School of Social Sciences, Communication, and Humanities
Endicott College School of Social Sciences, Communication, and Humanities
Contact
Wax Academic Center , 314
mwong@endicott.edu
978-232-2380

Profile

Dr. Maria Wong is strongly committed to supporting student success. She enjoys forming creative partnerships and motivating others to work collaboratively toward a clear vision and developing strategies that lead to measurable outcomes. Dr. Wong’s teaching excellence was recognized by the university-wide teaching award that she won at Stevenson University (2019). She has published research on children’s social-emotional development as well as the scholarship of teaching and learning.

Education

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Ph.D.
PSYCHOLOGY
2011

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
M.A.
PSYCHOLOGY
2008

University of Utah
M.S.
FAMILY ECOLOGY
2004

University of British Columbia
B.A.
PSYCHOLOGY
2002

Research

I have two major research areas. The first research area aims to understand children’s social-emotional development within the family context. To this end, I have examined parental emotion-socialization behaviors, children’s attachment relationships with mothers and fathers, and sociocultural factors (e.g., socioeconomic status, immigration status, and religion) and their influence on child development. I use both qualitative and quantitative methods and include multiple informants (mothers, fathers, and children) in my research. The second research area is related to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), specifically in areas of incorporating diversity into the teaching of psychology, both in-person and online.

Courses

Child and Adolescent Psychology
Statistical Methods in Social Science
General Psychology
Special Topics: Attachment Relationships

Office Hours

As scheduled and by appointment

Accomplishments

Awards

  • Faculty Conference Funding Awards. Stevenson University. 2014-2019
  • Honorary Membership Award. National Society for Leadership and Success. 2020
  • Nominated for the Distinguished Faculty Service to the University Community Award. Stevenson University. 2021
  • Nominated for the Innovative Teaching with Technology Award. Stevenson University. 2021
  • Rose Dawson Excellence in Teaching Award. (University-wide teaching award). Stevenson University. 2019

Publications

  • Wong, M.S., Weiner, L., Cerniak, J., & Yee, L.T.S. (Eds.). (2021). Incorporating diversity in classroom settings: Real and engaging examples for various psychology courses. (Vol 2: Intersectionality). Society for the Teaching of Psychology. 
  • Wong, M.S., Weiner, L., Cerniak, J., & Yee, L.T.S. (Eds.). (2021). Incorporating diversity in classroom settings: Real and engaging examples for various psychology courses. (Vol 1: Ability, age, culture, ethnicity/race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, and socioeconomic status). Society for the Teaching of Psychology.
  • Verhage, M. L., Fearon, R.M.P., Schuengel, C., van IJzendoorn, M.H., Bakermans-Kranenburg, M.J., Madigan, S., Roisman, G.I., Oosterman, M., Behrens, J.Y., Wong, M.S., Mangelsdorf, S., Priddis, L.E., Brisch, K., & The Collaboration on Attachment Transmission Synthesis. (2018). Examining ecological constraints on the intergenerational transmission of attachment via individual participant data meta-analysis. Child Development, 89, 2023-2037.