Faculty Profile

Diane Levin

Professor
(617)879-2167
dlevin@wheelock.edu

BS, 1968, Cornell University
MSEd, 1969, Wheelock College
Ph.D. 1978, Tufts University

Diane Levin is a professor of education. She teaches courses on play, media literacy and violence prevention. She leads an annual Wheelock Service Learning Program to Northern Ireland that focuses on How Early Childhood Programs Can Help Communities Affected by Violence Heal. An internationally recognized expert, she helps professionals and parents deal with the effects of violence and sexualization in society, media and commercial culture on children. She is the author or co-author of eight books including: So Sexy So Soon: The New Sexualized Childhood and What Parents Can Do to Protect Their Kids; The War Play Dilemma: What Every Parent and Teacher Needs to Know; Teaching Young Children in Violent Times: Building a Peaceable Classroom; and, Remote Control Childhood? Combating the Hazards of Media Culture. She has consulted for the American Psychological Association’s ACT against Violence Program. She has developed statewide peaceable classroom training for childcare providers in Maine and been Senior Advisor for four PBS Parents’ websites. She is a founder of Teachers Resisting Unhealthy Children’s Entertainment (www.truceteachers.org), which helps parents deal with the impact of media and commercial culture on their children, and Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood (www.commercialfreechildhood.org), which works to end the commercial exploitation of children.