Peeter Tammeveski

Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University, 2005, in Human Development and Family Studies

M.S. from Pennsylvania State University, 2000, in Human Development and Family Studies

B.S. from the University of Tartu, Estonia, 1996

2005-          Political imagination of gendered and racialized body (theory project)

1997-2005  Principal investigator of an ethnographic and historical research project, carried out in the Estonian community in the United States that was formed by World War II refugees. 

2002-2004  Researcher of the Committee for Community Directed Research and Education (interdisciplinary participatory action-research).

1998-1999  Research assistant of the project Family Change and Global Economy.

1996-1998  Research assistant of the International Study of Parents, Children, and Schools, conducted by the University of Connecticut.

1996-1997  Research assistant of the project Otitis Media and Child Development.

1993-1996  Research assistant of the Estonian branch of the project Child Rearing Practices Across Cultures, conducted by the University of North Carolina in six countries. 

Tammeveski, P. (2003). The making of national identity among older Estonians in the United States. Journal of Aging Studies, 17 (4), 399-414.

Tammeveski, P. (in progress). Women, life-course and collective memory: refugee trauma and identity politics in Estonian-American diaspora.

Tudge, J., Hayes, S., Doucet, F., Odero, D., Kulakova, N., Tammeveski, P., Meltsas, M., & Lee, S. (2000). Parents' participation in cultural practices with their preschoolers. [in Portuguese] Psicologia, 16, pp.1-10.

Tudge, J., Hogan, D., Lee, S., Meltsas, M., Tammeveski, P., Kulakova, N., Snezhkova, I., & Putnam, S. (1999). Cultural heterogeneity: Parental values and beliefs and their preschoolers' activities in the United States, South Korea, Russia, and Estonia. In A. Goncu (Ed.), Children's engagement in the world (pp.62-96). New York: Cambridge University Press.

Tudge, J., Doucet, F., Odero, D., Tammeveski, P., Meltsas, M., Lee, S., & Kulakova, N. (1999). Children's development in cultural context: The impact of preschoolers' engagement in everyday activities. [in Portuguese]. Interfaces, 2, 23-32.

Tammeveski, P. (organized & chair) (2006).  The body politic: Changing conceptions of citizenship, the state and politics.  Paper symposium at the annual meeting of SSHA, Minneapolis, November 2-5.

Tammeveski, P. (2006).  Body, gender, and race in theories of the state: A historical perspective.  Paper presented at the annual meeting of SSHA, Minneapolis, November 2-5.

Tammeveski, P.  (2001, December).  Re-membering refugee identity.  Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Washington D. C.. 

Tammeveski, P.  (2001, August).  The making of national identity in old age: The case of Estonians in the United States.  Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association in Anaheim, CA.   

Tammeveski, P.  (1999, November).  Construction of refugee experience in old age.  Paper presented at the 52^nd Annual Meeting of GSA in San Francisco.

Tammeveski, P. &  Vernon-Feagans, L.  (1997, September).  Young children’s health and minor parenting stresses.  Poster presented at the VIIIth European Conference of Developmental Psychology in Rennes, France.

Tammeveski, P., Tudge, J., & Meltsas, M. (1996, September).  Literacy activities in two Estonian samples.  Paper presented at the Piaget and Vygotsky Conference in Geneva, Switzerland.

Tammeveski, P., Tudge, J., & Meltsas, M.  (1994, August).  ‘Lessons’ among Estonian toddlers.  Poster presented at the VIIth European Conference of Developmental Psychology in Krakow, Poland.

Community education and capacity building in Grenada, $20,000 (PI Ian Baptiste).  Funded by Children, Youth and Families Consortium, Penn State

Dissertation Grant from the Center for Human Development and Family Research in Diverse Contexts (PennState, 2003-04):  $ 2,500 

Estonian Student Fund in the US grant in 1999: $4000

Gender, race, and reproductive control in interwar Estonian Republic - MU Research Council (not funded)

National Science Foundation dissertation grant in sociology (not funded)

Wenner-Gren Foundation dissertation grant (not funded)