Professor Maria Kromidas

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Maria Kromidas is Professor of Anthropology at William Paterson University in the US. Her work explores how race, labor, value, and our very idea of human being can be rethought through the standpoint of children and childhood. Her work on childhood has contributed to various fields and published in journals such as Anthropological Theory, Antipode, Capital & Class, Childhood, Critique of Anthropology, Harvard Educational Review, Curriculum Inquiry, and Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures. She is the author of City Kids: Transforming Racial Baggage (Rutgers UP, 2016) and Mothering for Capital: Labor, Race, and Child 'Value' in Neoliberalism (Vanderbilt UP, 2026).

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