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James McKenna

Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C., Professor of Anthropology; Director, Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Lab

Anthropology

Phone
574-631-3816
Email
McKenna.25@nd.edu

Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C., Professor of Anthropology; Director, Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Lab

  • Infant co-sleeping
  • Breast-feeding
  • Sudden infant death syndrome (sids)
  • Evolution of human behavior
  • Evolutionary medicine
  • Human parenting
  • Infancy

Video

McKenna in the News

July 03, 2023

According to James McKenna, Ph.D., an anthropologist specializing in infancy and development and director of the mother/baby behavioral sleep laboratory at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, the location in which you sleep is less important when it comes to a baby's development.

February 09, 2022

Prematurely pushing a baby towards longer, deeper sleep, therefore, can increase SIDS risk, says James McKenna, the founder and director of the Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Laboratory at the University of Notre Dame and endowed chair in anthropology at Santa Clara University, California.