Darcia Narvaez

Darcia Narvaez is Professor Emerita of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame, and Fellow of the American Psychological Association, American Educational Research Association, Association for Psychological Science, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Born in Minnesota (USA), she grew up living around the world as a bilingual/bicultural Puerto Rican-German American but calls Earth her home. Her earlier careers include professional musician, business owner, classroom music teacher, classroom Spanish teacher, and seminarian, among other endeavors. She uses an interdisciplinary approach to studying evolved morality, child development and human flourishing. Her most recent books include Restoring the Kinship Worldview, and The Evolved Nest: Nature’s Way of Raising Children and Creating Connected Communities. Her book, Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality: Evolution, Culture and Wisdom won the 2015 William James Book Award from the American Psychological Association and the 2017 Expanded Reason Award. Her recent short films are Breaking the Cycle, The Evolved Nest, and Reimagining Humanity. She hosts the webpage EvolvedNest.org and serves as president of KindredWorld.org.

BOOKS: 

• The Evolved Nest: Nature's Way of Raising Children and Creating Connected Communities

• Restoring the Kinship Worldview: Indigenous Voices Introduce 28 Precepts for Rebalancing Life on Planet Earth (North Atlantic)

• Indigenous Sustainable Wisdom: First Nation Know-How for Global Flourishing (Peter Lang)

• Basic Needs, Wellbeing and Morality: Fulfilling Human Potential (Palgrave-Macmillan)

• Embodied Morality: Protectionism, Engagement and Imagination (Palgrave-Macmillan)

• Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality: Evolution, Culture and Wisdom  (winner of the 2017 Expanded Reason Award and the 2015 APA William James Book Award)

• Evolution, Early Experience and Human Development (OUP)

• Ancestral Landscapes in Human Evolution (OUP)

• Young Child Flourishing: Evolution, Family & Society (OUP)