- Assistant Professor
- Phone: (979) 845-0378
- Email: amidgett@tamu.edu
- Office: PSYC 219
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- Diversity Science
- Social & Personality Psychology
Research Interests
Dr. Midgette’s research investigates the origins and social processes that support individuals in developing an understanding of justice and learning how to care for others in an inequitable and unjust world. Her work addresses two key questions: How do we come to care about each other and about justice within the family? How do we become just in the face of inequality?
To investigate these questions, Dr. Midgette employs a mixed methodology that places the experiential reality of children and their families at the forefront. The long-term goal of her work is to characterize how cultural, societal, and family practice influence individual moral development, with the ultimate aim of supporting the creation of interventions that contribute to individuals’ development into more caring and just individuals.
Dr. Allegra Midgette received her PhD in Human Development in Education from the University of California, Berkeley. She completed a two-year NICHD T32 postdoctoral fellowship at the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Midgette’s research is on moral development across cultures. Dr. Midgette was awarded the Fulbright Finland Foundation and Tampere University Fellowship Award (2025-2026). Dr. Midgette is currently the lead advisor on a five year $2.5 million grant funded by Lilly Endowment awarded to the Children’s Museum Houston to foster children's character development. Dr. Midgette is a Principal Investigator on a National Science Foundation funded project titled, "Collaborative Research: The Influence of household labor distribution in families on children’s social development." Dr. Midgette teaches courses in lifespan development, qualitative research methods, and equity considerations for scholars. Dr. Midgette currently serves on the editorial board of Developmental Psychology and the Journal of Moral Education. She is a board member of the Association for Moral Education.
Affiliated Research Cluster
Diversity Science. Justice within the family; justice in the face of inequality; cultural, societal, and family practices that influence moral development.
Office Hours: By appointment (virtual)
Accepting Students for 2025-2026?: Yes
Selected Publications
- Midgette, A., Ferreira, J., Fairchild, L., Chen, Y.H. (In Press). To Help Each Other and to be Together: How Children Think about Care Within the Family Across Three Cultures. Childhood.
- Midgette, A. & Chernyak, C. (2025). It was Gendered Before, so why not Again? US Young Adults’ Expectations for Family Labor. Journal of Family Issues. Published first Online. https://doi.org/10.1177/
0192513X251356259
- Sarmiento, M., Hwang, J. , & Midgette, A. @ (2024).“The children don't do enough”: Including children in fairness perceptions of housework. Journal of Marriage and Family, 86(2), 433-454. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.
com/doi/10.1111/jomf.12966 - Midgette, A., Liu, J., & Onyishi, I. (2024). Beyond Equality between a Couple: A Cross-Cultural Investigation into Heterosexual Young Adults’ Expectations for Future Family Labor. Sex Roles, 90 (1), 151-165. https://doi.org/10.1007/
s11199-023-01415-4 - Midgette, A., & Ferreira, J. (2024). Conceptualizing Care: US & Finnish Caregivers’ Reflections on Caregiving within the Family. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 33(1), 253-270. https://doi.org/10.1007/
s10826-023-02718-6
- Midgette, A., & Mulvey, K.L. (2024). White American students’ recognition of racial microaggressions in higher education. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 17(1), 54-67. https:doi.org/10.1037/
dhe0000391 - Midgette, A., Ma, DY., Stowe, L., & Chernyak, N. (2023). US and Chinese Preschoolers Normalize Household Labor Inequality. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(38), e2301781120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.
2301781120