Stephen Lassonde
Lecturer
Office: CC 453-A, Entry F
Phone: (203) 432-0744
Email: stephen.lassonde@yale.edu
Stephen Lassonde received his PhD in American Studies from Yale in 1994. He teaches courses on the history of childhood and education, on family life in the postwar United States, and contributes to a team-taught, interdisciplinary course on the history of New Haven and its implications for urban policy in modern America.
He served as Associate Editor of Children and Childhood: In History and Society, a three-volume encyclopedia of the history of childhood published in 2004. In 2005, his book, Learning to Forget: Schooling and Family Life in New Haven's Working Class, 1870-1940, was published by Yale University Press. He is currently collaborating with a child psychiatrist on a cultural history of a longitudinal study that examines the lives of several children growing up during the mid-1950s till the mid-1960s, and is writing a history of children's perceptions of authority in the United States over the course of the 20th century.
