Alice Sterling Honig, Ph.D.
Alice Sterling Honig, Ph.D., was Professor Emerita of Child Development at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York. Dr. Honig attended Cornell University, received her B.A. degree from Barnard College, her M.S. degree in experimental psychology from Columbia University, and her Ph.D. from Syracuse University in Developmental Psychology. For more than 40 years, Dr. Honig taught courses in child development; parenting; cross-cultural study of children and families; language and cognitive development; quality caregiving with infants and toddlers; theories of child development; research issues and problems in child development; child observation and measurement techniques; prosocial and moral development; an Erikson seminar; and exemplary child enrichment programs. Every spring, for over 33 years, Dr. Honig directed the National Quality Infant/Toddler Caregiving Workshop. She authored or edited more than two dozen books and 500 articles and chapters.
A special Early Childhood Lifetime Achievement Award was presented in 2004 to Dr. Honig by the Syracuse Association for the Education of Young Children. The New York State Association for the Education of Young Children in 2005 gave Dr. Honig its “Champion of Children Lifetime Achievement Award.” Dr. Honig was honored in 2008 with the Central New York State Psychological Association’s Annual award given: “In Recognition of Outstanding Lifetime Contribution and Service.” For over a decade, Dr. Honig co-conducted workshops for The Onondaga County Mental Health Association to help parents with child custody issues. As a licensed New York State psychologist, she counseled parents and assessed children’s development. She was a contributing columnist for Scholastic Parent and Child, was North American Editor for the British journal Early Child Development and Care, and served on many editorial boards, including the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, Child Development, and PsycCritiques.