Curriculum Vitae

ANGELINE S. LILLARD

 

Department of Psychology                 Phone: (434) 982-5232
Gilmer Hall, P.O. Box 400400                 Fax: (434) 982-4694
University of Virginia                 lillard@virginia.edu
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4400                 http://www.people.virginia.edu/~asl2h/
 

EDUCATION

Stanford University, Ph.D., Psychology (1991)
Smith College, B.A., English Literature (1983)
 

EMPLOYMENT

Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, 2006-present
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, 2000-2006
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, 1996-2000
National Science Foundation Visiting Professor, Department of Psychology, University of California at Berkeley, 1996
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of San Francisco, 1991-1996
Laboratory Technician, University of California, San Francisco, 1985-1987
Technical Writer, Fortune Systems Corporation, 1983-1985
 

HONORS and AWARDS

Fellow, American Psychological Society, 2006
James McKeen Cattell Sabbatical Award, 2005-2006
Max Planck, University of Michigan, University of Virginia Life Academy Fellow, 2005
British Psychological Society Visiting Fellow, 2003
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary and Cultural Psychology, Leipzig, Visiting Fellow, 2003
University Teaching Fellow, University of Virginia, 1999-2000
American Psychological Association Boyd McCandless Young Scientist Award, 1999
Visiting Scientist, Japan Developmental Psychology Society, Tokyo, 1998
American Psychological Association Outstanding Dissertation Award (Division 7), 1992
 

FUNDING

Jacobs Foundation, Evaluation of Montessori Outcomes, $55,000, 1/06-8/06
Cantus Foundation, Evaluation of Montessori Outcomes, $60,000, 5/05-6/07
Cattell Foundation Sabbatical Award, $32,000, 9/05-5/06
University of Virginia Alumnus Special Gift, $25,000 pledged, 1/06-12/11
National Institutes of Health #RO1HD36808. An investigation of the signs of pretense. PI. Direct costs: $425,000. 4/1/01-2/28/04.
National Science Foundation Woman Scientist Award, #DGE-9550152. Early development in children's understanding of the mental state of pretense. PI. Direct costs: $150,166. 1/1/96-12/31/98.
National Institutes of Health Academic Research Enhancement Award, #R15-HD30418. The development of children's understanding of pretend. PI. Direct costs: $105,000. 7/1/93-6/31/96.
First-time Feb 1 ’05 R01 submission to NIH received priority score of 235 and was resubmitted March 1.
 

INVITED ADDRESSES

Keynote Speaker, The Montessori Foundation, Clearwater, FL, 2005
Keynote Speaker, Association Montessori Internationale Annual Teacher Refresher Conference, Dallas, TX 2005
Keynote Speaker, Association Montessori Internationale Annual Conference, Portland, OR 2004
Keynote Speaker, British Psychological Association (Developmental), Coventry, 2003
Keynote Speaker, La Teoria della Mente Nello Sviluppo Normale e Patologico, Milano, 2002
Invited Address, Japan Developmental Psychology Society, Tokyo, 1998
 

INVITED SYMPOSIA

Jean Piaget Society, 2003 (Organizer and speaker)
Conference on Human Development, 2002 (Organizer and speaker)
 

PUBLICATIONS

Book

Lillard, A.S. (2005). Montessori: The science behind the genius. New York: Oxford University Press. This is an academic book on psychology research pertinent to Montessori and all education, written to be palatable to lay audiences as well as academic ones. Released March 2005, now in 7th printing. Number 1 seller in education for 2005 on Library Journal list (compiled by YBP library services). Reviewed in

o Applied Developmental Psychology, 27, 183-187.

o PsycCritiques (on-line successor to Contemporary Psychology) 2006, 51 #24.

Refereed journal articles

Lillard, A.S. & Else-Quest, N. (2006). Evaluating Montessori education. Science, 313, 29 Sept.

Lillard, A. S., Nishida, T., Vaish, A., Massaro, D., Ma, L., & McRoberts, J. (in press). Signs of pretense across age and scenario. Infancy.

Ma, L., & Lillard, A. (in press). Where is the real cheese: Young children's understanding of pretense. Child Development.

Nishida, T., & Lillard, A. S. (in press). The informative value of emotional expressions: Social referencing behavior in mother-infant pretense. Development Science.

Lillard, A.S., & Witherington, D.S. (2004). Mothers' behavior modifications during pretense snacks and their possible signal value for toddlers. Developmental Psychology, 40, 95-113.

Richert, R., & Lillard, A.S. (2004) Observers’ proficiency at identifying pretend acts based on different behavioral cues. Cognitive Development, 19, 223-240.

Richert, R., & Lillard, A.S. (2002). Children’s understanding of the knowledge prerequisites of drawing and pretending. Developmental Psychology 38, 1004-1015.

Sobel, D., & Lillard, A.S. (2002). Children's understanding of the mind’s involvement in pretense: do words bend the truth? Developmental Science, 5, 87-97.

Lillard, A.S. (2001). Pretend play as Twin Earth: A social-cognitive analysis. Developmental Review, 21, 495-531.

Sobel, D.M., & Lillard, A.S. (2001). The impact of fantasy and action on young children's understanding of pretence. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 19, 85-98.

Lillard, A.S., Zeljo, A., Curenton, S., & Kaugers, A. (2000). Children's understanding of the animacy constraint on pretense. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 46, 21-44.

Lillard, A.S. (1999). Developing a cultural theory of mind: The CIAO approach. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 8, 57-61.

Lillard, A.S., & Sobel, D. (1999). Lion Kings vs. puppies: the influence of fantasy on children's understanding of pretense. Developmental Science, 2, 75-80.

Lillard, A.S. (1999). Siegal on Piaget’s legacy: Gricean child meets blundering experimenter. Developmental Science, 2, 18-21.

Lillard, A.S. (1998). Wanting to be it: Children's understanding of intentions underlying pretense. Child Development, 61, 981-993.

Lillard, A.S. (1998). Ethnopsychologies: Cultural variations in theory of mind. Psychological Bulletin, 123, 3-30.

Lillard, A.S. (1997). Other folks’ theories of mind and behavior. Psychological Science, 8, 268-274.

Lillard, A.S. (1996). Body or mind: Children's categorizating of pretense. Child Development, 67, 1717-1734.

Lillard, A.S. (1993). Pretend play skills and the child's theory of mind. Child Development, 64, 348-371.

Lillard, A.S. (1993). Young children's conceptualization of pretense: Action or mental representational state? Child Development, 64, 372-386.

Lillard, A.S., & Flavell, J.H. (1992). Young children's understanding of different mental states. Developmental Psychology, 28, 626-634.

Lillard, A.S., & Flavell, J.H. (1990). Young children's preference for mental state versus behavioral descriptions of human action. Child Development, 61, 731-741

Book chapters

Lillard, A.S. (in press). Pretend play in toddlers. Early Socioemotional Development, Brownell, C. & Kopp, C. (Eds.), New York: Guilford.

Lillard, A.S. (in press). Mothers’ structuring and others’ interpreting of pretend play. In Goncu, A. and Gaskins, S. Play and Development: Evolutionary, Sociocultural and Functional Perspectives, pp. 131-153. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Lillard, A.S. (2006). Inside/outside: Where children from different cultural contexts focus their explanations for behavior. In Antonietti A., Liverta-Sempio O., and Marchetti A. (Eds.), Theory of mind and language in developmental contexts, pp. 65-76. New York: Springer.

Lillard, A.S., & Skibbe, L.E. (2004). Theory of Mind: Conscious attribution and spontaneous trait inference. In R. Hassin, J. Uleman, & J. Bargh (Eds.), The new unconscious (pp.277-308). NY: Oxford. (2nd Ed.)

Lillard, A.S. (2002). Pretend play and cognitive development. In U. Goswami (Ed.), Handbook of cognitive development (pp. 188-205). London: Blackwell.

Lillard, A.S. (2002). Just through the looking glass: children’s understanding of pretense. In R. Mitchell (Ed.), Pretending and imagination in animals and children (pp. 102-114). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Lillard, A.S. (2001). Explaining the connection: Pretend play and theory of mind. In S. Reifel (Ed.), Theory in context and out. Vol. 3, Play and culture studies (pp. 173-178). Westport, CT: Ablex.

Lillard, A.S. (2001). Pretending, understanding pretense, and understanding minds. In S. Reifel (Ed.), Theory in context and out. Vol. 3, Play and culture studies (pp. 233-254). Westport, CT: Ablex.

Lillard, A.S. (1998). Playing with a theory of mind. In O.N. Saracho & B. Spodek (Eds.), Multiple perspectives on play in early childhood education (pp. 11-33). Series Editor: M. Jensen. New York: SUNY Press.

Lillard, A.S. (1994). Making sense of pretence. In C. Lewis and P. Mitchell (Eds.), Children's early understanding of mind: Origins and development (pp. 211-234). NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Proceedings, book reviews, commentaries, and other writing

Lillard, A. S (in press). Dissociations, developmental psychology, and pedagogical design. Child Development.

Lillard, A.S. (2005). The Montessori Method. In N. Salkind (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Human Development. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Lillard, A.S. (2004). Montessori: The Science. Proceedings of the Association Montessori Internationale.

Lillard, A.S. (2004). Discriminating pretense and real snacks: A fundamental problem in early social cognition. British Developmental Psychology Forum, 62, 9-17.

Lillard, A.S. (1999). A cultural feast. Cross-Cultural Psychology Bulletin, March, 22-26.

Lillard, A.S., & Curenton, S. (1999). Do young children understand what others feel, want, and know? Young Children, 54, 52-57.

Reprinted (2003) in C. Copple (Ed.), A world of difference, pp. 46-51. Washington D.C.: NAEYC Press.

Lillard A.S. (1998). Ethnopsychologies: Reply to Wellman and Gauvain. Psychological Bulletin, 123, 43-46.

Lillard, A.S. (1998). Casting the theory net wide. Review of Gopnik & Meltzoff (1997). Contemporary Psychology, 43, 663-665.

Lillard, A.S. (1998). The source of universal conceptions: A look from folk psychology. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 14, 580.

Lillard, A.S. (1998). Theories behind theories of mind. Human Development, 41, 40-44.

Harris, P.L., Lillard, A.S., & Perner, J. (1994). Commentary: Triangulating pretence and belief. In C. Lewis & P. Mitchell (Eds.), Children's early understanding of mind: Origins and development (pp. 287-293). NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Lillard, A.S. (1993). Moving forward on cultural learning. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 16, 528-529.

•  Popular articles

         Must educators make fools of themselves? Letter to the Editor, The Wall Street Journal,
         7/2/04.

         Balancing work and family, Occasional Paper Series, University of Virginia Teaching     
         Resource Center. (2006)

         Testing mania, in Parenting for a New World, 13(1). Reprinted in First Capitol News, St.
         Charles, MO. Summer, 2004.

         2002-2004 Monthly articles on education-relevant psychology research for the Montessori
         Community School newsletter.

 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Associate Editor, British Journal of Psychology, 2007 -
Review Panel Head (Social Cognition/Theory of Mind), Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, 2005
Editorial Consultant, British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2003-present
Editorial Board, Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1998-2000
Editorial Board, Developmental Psychology, 1995-1999
Reviewer, SRCD 2001, 2003
Co-organizer (with Dr. Alison Gopnik), Second Current Directions in Theory of Mind Research Conference, Berkeley, CA, 1996
Co-organizer (with Zita Meijer and Dr. Jon Haidt), Regional Workshop on Cultural Psychology, Charlottesville, VA, 1998
Media Appearances:

Eight Principles for Evidence-Based Education (DVD featuring Lecture on Montessori), Paladin Pictures, Fall 2006

National Public Radio WABE, Atlanta, Spring 2006

Parents’ Perspective, February 2006, PBS stations, podcast available on web

The Human Baby, 2004, Discovery Health Canada

Coast Learning Systems’ Child Development Series: Stepping Stones. #112 “Playing and Learning,” #113 “Playing and Socializing,”2002

 

INVITED TALKS

 

American Psychological Association Annual Convention 2001

Cambridge University 2003
Center for the Advanced Study of the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford 1995 Conference on Intentionality, Cognitive Sciences Institute, Oregon 1999
CUNY Graduate Center 2000 Eastern Kentucky University 2002
Emory University 2002 Georgia State University 1996
Harvard University 1992 Johns Hopkins University 1994
Kyoto University 1998 Max Planck Institute for the Study of Evolution and Culture, Leipzig 2003
Vanderbilt University 1992 Shirayuri College, Tokyo 1998
University of California, Berkeley 1996 Stanford University 1992
University of Chicago 2003 University of California, Santa Cruz 1995
University of Maryland 2005 University of California, San Diego, Cognition and Culture Group 2002
University of Nottingham 2003 University of London 2003
University of Padua 2002 University of North Carolina, Greensboro 1992
University of Rome 2002 University of Oregon, 1999
University of Virginia: University of Pennsylvania 1999
     •Teaching Fellows Program University of Texas 2005
     •Teaching Workshop 2003 Life Course Academy 2005 (Max Planck-Berlin and University of Michigan
     •Curry School Teachers for a New Era 
       Program 2005
 

- Many talks to community education organizations and Montessori schools across the US and Canada 2005-7

 

STUDENTS

Former Graduate/Postdoctoral:

Rebekah Richert (Assistant Professor, Psychology, University of California, Riverside, formerly NSF Post-doctoral Scholar, Education, Harvard University)

David Sobel (Assistant Professor, Cognitive Science, Brown University)

                    David Witherington (Assistant Professor, Psychology, University of New Mexico)

                    Current Graduate:

                    Lili Ma, Tracy Nishida, Ashley Pinkham, Jennifer Van Reet

                   Undergraduates of Note:

                   Jeanine Dick, (2000) Winner of Maury Pathfinder Undergraduate Thesis Award

                   Lauren Malloy (2005-6), winner of Double - Hoo with Tracy Nishida

 

MEMBERSHIP in PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

Association Montessori Internationale, Member
Association for Psychological Science, Member, Fellow
Cognitive Development Society, Member
International Society for Infant Studies, Member
Society for Research in Child Development, Member
 

TEACHING at the University of Virginia

Child Psychology. Spring, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2007. Fall, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004
Experimental Methods and Statistics I. Fall, 1997
Seminar in Theory of Mind. Spring, 1997, 2001, 2005. Fall, 2000
Graduate Developmental Research Methods. Fall, 1998
Graduate Cognitive Development, Spring, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, Fall 2006
Ethnopsychologies, co-taught with Prof. Danziger (Anthropology). Fall 1999, 2003
Psychology Research and Schooling Today, Spring, 2005, 2007.
 

DEPARTMENTAL and UNIVERSITY SERVICE at the University of Virginia

University Internal Review Board for Social Science Research, 2004-5, 2006-7
Faculty Consultant, University Excellence in Diversity Fellowship Program, 2003-4, 2006-7
University Seminar “Designing Matter” Psychology Session Lecturer, 2005
College Science Scholars Presentations, 2004, 2005
New Faculty Mentor, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, 2004-5
Graduate Fellowship Committee, Jefferson Scholars Foundation, Spring, 2004
Clinical Psychology Faculty Search Committee, 2003-2004
Psychology Department Graduate Committee, 2003-2004
Psychology Department Human Subjects Committee, 2002-2003
Psychology Department Undergraduate Committee, 2001-2004
Reviewer, All-University Outstanding Teaching Assistant Awards, 2001
Reviewer, Distinguished Teaching Fellowship Applications, Psychology, 2001
Reviewer, University Teaching Fellows Applications, 2001
Reviewer, Sesqui Applications, Arts and Sciences, 2000
First year and transfer student advisor, 2000-2002
Steering Committee. 1997-1999, 2000-present
Developmental Psychology Faculty Search Committees, 1997-1998, 1998-1999, 2000-2001, 2001-2002
Ad Hoc Mentoring Committee, 1997-1999
Discussant, Professor Michael Cole, School of Education, Spring 1999
Department Chair Search Committee, 1997
Women’s Concerns Committee, 1997-1998
Colloquium Series Organizer: Women in Science, 1997-9
Coordinator of Graduate Student Discussion Hours with Women Psychologists, 1997-9
Pathfinder Awards (Predissertation Prize) Reader, 1997
Consultant on Under Fives Program, 1997
Panel participant, Job Seeking in Academics, Fall, 1997