Jordan Shapiro Ph.D.

Jordan Shapiro, Ph.D., is a respected American author and researcher. He lives in Philadelphia and teaches in Temple University’s Intellectual Heritage Program. He's senior fellow for the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop, and Nonresident Fellow in the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution. He is an international speaker and consultant whose fresh perspective combines psychology, philosophy, and economics in unexpected ways.

His book, The New Childhood: Raising Kids To Thrive in a Connected World (Little, Brown Spark 2018) changed the cultural conversation about parenting and screen time. It received wide critical acclaim and has been translated into 11 languages.

In his most recent book, Father Figure: How to be a Feminist Dad (Little, Brown Spark 2021), Shapiro offers a norm-shattering perspective on fatherhood, family, and gender essentialism. This thoughtful exploration of dad-psychology—presented from an archetypal perspective—challenges our familiar assumptions about the origins of so-called traditional parenting roles. The New York Times Book Review called it, “utterly mind-blowing.”