Sam Gill
Biographic Data
| ID | 115552 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sam Gill |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sam |
| FAMILY NAME | Gill |
| SIGNATURE | GILL S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2870-4902 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 224 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Enhancing home visits to promote parents’ sensitive scaffolding among families living in poverty
This study examined how different groups of families responded to participation in the Recipe 4 Success preventive intervention and what happened to families after the intervention ended. Recipe 4 Success was designed to promote parents’ sensitive scaffolding of toddlers’ self-regulation among families living in poverty. It was embedded within 12 weekly Early Head Start home visits and tested against usual practice home visits in a randomized con…
What predicts improvements from home visits
Objective This study examined how implementation fidelity to Recipe 4 Success, a preventive intervention embedded within home visits, was related to family enjoyment of those home visits and how both implementation fidelity and enjoyment were related to improvements in parents' sensitive scaffolding and toddlers' self‐regulation. Background Implementation fidelity to evidence‐based interventions is necessary for achieving intended benefits. Howev…
A preventive intervention promoting toddlers' self‐regulation improves parental resilience in the future
What Can Scholars Do
The notion of spending a day
What makes home visits effective? An examination of therapeutic mechanisms in the Recipe 4 Success preventive intervention
Promoting toddlers' self-regulation and healthy eating habits among families living in poverty
The Recipe 4 Success preventive intervention targeted multiple factors critical to the health and well-being of toddlers living in poverty. This randomized controlled trial, which was embedded within Early Head Start home visits for 12 weeks, included 242 racially and ethnically diverse families (51% girls; toddler mean age = 2.58 years; data collected 2016–2019). Compared to parents in usual practice home visits, parents in Recipe 4 Success disp…
The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Commodification
Digitization is taking over every sphere of life—including the arts. Through the process of digital commodity fetishism, major technology companies threaten to efface the very qualities that make creative expression—particularly the performing arts—distinct and meaningful. To resist or even question these forces, we must excavate an invisible digital politics that can displace (and replace) traditional sources of authority in the performing arts.…
The Glory Jest and Riddle
The late Jonathan Z. Smith was a central influence in the development of a study of religion on a par with the social and even natural sciences. This article reexamines Smith’s legacy for the inspiration to build a proper academic study of religion. It looks to Smith’s common use of jokes and riddles, grounded in his early studies of Frazer’s The Golden Bough , in order to tease out not simply stylistic or methodological concerns, but fundamental…
What kind of parenting is associated with early self-control among toddlers living in poverty? The importance of learning support
The present study examined what kind of parenting best supports toddlers' self-control in the context of poverty. Parents and toddlers (52% female; M age = 2.60 years) in 117 families (35% White, 25% Black, 22% Latinx, 15% Multiracial, and 3% Asian; M family income = $1,845/month) engaged in structured interaction tasks, and toddlers completed a snack delay task concurrently and after 6 months. Latent profile analysis based on eight observed pare…
What the One Thing Shows Me in the Case of Two Things”
Comparison is a fundamental operation in the milieu of the remarkable abilities of human beings to transcend themselves in acts of perception and the accumulation of knowledge. Comparison is holding together things that are at once the same and different. The very possibility of the copresence of same and different, of is and is not, is a gift of human biology and evolution. Humans compare because it is our distinctive nature to do so. Academics …
Home visitor readiness, job support, and job satisfaction across three home visitation programs
Parent engagement in a Head Start home visiting program predicts sustained growth in children’s school readiness
Early Head Start start-up planning
This study examined the quality of start–up planning of two Early Head Start (EHS) agencies and its association with staff satisfaction, burnout, and turnover a year after program implementation. Respondents (N = 65) completed interviews and surveys at two time points. Data were analyzed in the context of the Head Start's EHS Organizational Readiness Chart. Both programs addressed salient aspects of organizational readiness, including establishme…
Implementation quality
Ethnic Awareness, Prejudice, and Civic Commitments in Four Ethnic Groups of American Adolescents
Fostering High-Quality Teaching With an Enriched Curriculum and Professional Development Support
This randomized controlled trial tested whether teaching quality in Head Start classrooms could be improved with the addition of evidence-based curriculum components targeting emergent language or literacy and social-emotional development and the provision of associated professional development support. Participants were lead and assistant teachers in 44 Head Start classrooms. Teachers received 4 days of workshop training along with weekly in-cla…
Promoting Academic and Social-Emotional School Readiness
Forty-four Head Start classrooms were randomly assigned to enriched intervention (Head Start REDI-Research-based, Developmentally Informed) or "usual practice" conditions. The intervention involved brief lessons, "hands-on" extension activities, and specific teaching strategies linked empirically with the promotion of: (a) social-emotional competencies and (b) language development and emergent literacy skills. Take-home materials were provided to…
School and community climates and civic commitments
The developmental correlates of diffuse support for the polity and civic commitments were explored in a survey of 1,052 students (mean age 14.96 years) from African American, Arab American, European American, and Latino American backgrounds. Results of structural equation modeling revealed that regardless of their age, gender, or ethnic background, youth were more likely to believe that America was a just society and to commit to democratic goals…
Home Visitor Competence, Burnout, Support, and Client Engagement
Home visitor characteristics, on-the-job training and support, job satisfaction, burnout, and turnover were examined over a five-year period. Home visitors were adequately trained, and scored high on measures of knowledge, competence, psychological functioning (indicated by measures of burnout and depression), and job satisfaction at program entry. Over time, home visitation was associated with higher emotional exhaustion and lower job satisfacti…
What Does Democracy Mean
The open-ended responses of 701 7th to 12th graders to the question “What does democracy mean to you?” were analyzed. In logistic regressions, age, parental education, political discussions, and participation in extracurricular activities distinguished youth who could define democracy (53%) from those who could not. Case clustering revealed three emphases in youths’ definitions: individual rights (30%), representative rule (40%), and civic equali…
"A Response to Hugh B. Urban's "Scholartracking
© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2002 Method & Theory in the Study of Religion 14, 219-225 RESPONSE A RESPONSE TO HUGH B. URBAN’S “SCHOLARTRACKING: THE ETHICS AND POLITICS OF STUDYING ‘OTHERS’ IN THE WORK OF SAM D. GILL” S am D. G ill I am honored by Hugh Urban’s (2001) attention to my work, particu- larly its sweeping consideration of so much of it and by the fascinat- ing, though somewhat speculative, biographical angle which adds not only a bit…
Making Them Speak”
The role of parental perspectives in the school adjustment of innercity black children
The Academic Study of Religion
The Academic Study of Religion Get access Sam Gill Sam Gill Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LXII, Issue 4, Winter 1994, Pages 965–975, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/LXII.4.965 Published: 01 December 1994
Dictionary of Native American Mythology
Dictionary of Native American Mythologyincludes over 1,000 colorful, sometimes earthy, and always intriguing entries. Using the carefully chosen cross references, readers can quickly access the meanings of hundreds of elements of lore-from names, phrases, and symbols to images, motifs, and themes. Ten territory maps, which pinpoint exact locations of the tribes mentioned in the text, and a tribal index enhance this volume's usefulness. The biblio…
Promoting Academic and Social-Emotional School Readiness
Forty-four Head Start classrooms were randomly assigned to enriched intervention (Head Start REDI-Research-based, Developmentally Informed) or "usual practice" conditions. The intervention involved brief lessons, "hands-on" extension activities, and specific teaching strategies linked empirically with the promotion of: (a) social-emotional competencies and (b) language development and emergent literacy skills. Take-home materials were provided to…
Ethnic Awareness, Prejudice, and Civic Commitments in Four Ethnic Groups of American Adolescents
Home Visitor Competence, Burnout, Support, and Client Engagement
Home visitor characteristics, on-the-job training and support, job satisfaction, burnout, and turnover were examined over a five-year period. Home visitors were adequately trained, and scored high on measures of knowledge, competence, psychological functioning (indicated by measures of burnout and depression), and job satisfaction at program entry. Over time, home visitation was associated with higher emotional exhaustion and lower job satisfacti…
The role of parental perspectives in the school adjustment of innercity black children
What Does Democracy Mean
The open-ended responses of 701 7th to 12th graders to the question “What does democracy mean to you?” were analyzed. In logistic regressions, age, parental education, political discussions, and participation in extracurricular activities distinguished youth who could define democracy (53%) from those who could not. Case clustering revealed three emphases in youths’ definitions: individual rights (30%), representative rule (40%), and civic equali…
Implementation quality
Fostering High-Quality Teaching With an Enriched Curriculum and Professional Development Support
This randomized controlled trial tested whether teaching quality in Head Start classrooms could be improved with the addition of evidence-based curriculum components targeting emergent language or literacy and social-emotional development and the provision of associated professional development support. Participants were lead and assistant teachers in 44 Head Start classrooms. Teachers received 4 days of workshop training along with weekly in-cla…
Native Religions of North America
Parent engagement in a Head Start home visiting program predicts sustained growth in children’s school readiness
Home visitor readiness, job support, and job satisfaction across three home visitation programs
What the One Thing Shows Me in the Case of Two Things”
Comparison is a fundamental operation in the milieu of the remarkable abilities of human beings to transcend themselves in acts of perception and the accumulation of knowledge. Comparison is holding together things that are at once the same and different. The very possibility of the copresence of same and different, of is and is not, is a gift of human biology and evolution. Humans compare because it is our distinctive nature to do so. Academics …
The Academic Study of Religion
The Academic Study of Religion Get access Sam Gill Sam Gill Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LXII, Issue 4, Winter 1994, Pages 965–975, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/LXII.4.965 Published: 01 December 1994
What kind of parenting is associated with early self-control among toddlers living in poverty? The importance of learning support
The present study examined what kind of parenting best supports toddlers' self-control in the context of poverty. Parents and toddlers (52% female; M age = 2.60 years) in 117 families (35% White, 25% Black, 22% Latinx, 15% Multiracial, and 3% Asian; M family income = $1,845/month) engaged in structured interaction tasks, and toddlers completed a snack delay task concurrently and after 6 months. Latent profile analysis based on eight observed pare…
"A Response to Hugh B. Urban's "Scholartracking
© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2002 Method & Theory in the Study of Religion 14, 219-225 RESPONSE A RESPONSE TO HUGH B. URBAN’S “SCHOLARTRACKING: THE ETHICS AND POLITICS OF STUDYING ‘OTHERS’ IN THE WORK OF SAM D. GILL” S am D. G ill I am honored by Hugh Urban’s (2001) attention to my work, particu- larly its sweeping consideration of so much of it and by the fascinat- ing, though somewhat speculative, biographical angle which adds not only a bit…
The Power of Story
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Sam Gill; The Power of Story. American Indian Culture and Research Journal 1 January 1988; 12 (3): 69–84. doi: https://doi.org/10.17953/aicr.12.3.w42720x18l05x661 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers En…
Sioux Indian Religion
Native Religions of North America
General/Theoretical Anthropology
Dictionary of Native American Mythology
Dictionary of Native American Mythologyincludes over 1,000 colorful, sometimes earthy, and always intriguing entries. Using the carefully chosen cross references, readers can quickly access the meanings of hundreds of elements of lore-from names, phrases, and symbols to images, motifs, and themes. Ten territory maps, which pinpoint exact locations of the tribes mentioned in the text, and a tribal index enhance this volume's usefulness. The biblio…
Religion in Native North America. Christopher Vecsey
The role of parental perspectives in the school adjustment of innercity black children
The Academic Study of Religion
The Academic Study of Religion Get access Sam Gill Sam Gill Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LXII, Issue 4, Winter 1994, Pages 965–975, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/LXII.4.965 Published: 01 December 1994
Making Them Speak”
"A Response to Hugh B. Urban's "Scholartracking
© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2002 Method & Theory in the Study of Religion 14, 219-225 RESPONSE A RESPONSE TO HUGH B. URBAN’S “SCHOLARTRACKING: THE ETHICS AND POLITICS OF STUDYING ‘OTHERS’ IN THE WORK OF SAM D. GILL” S am D. G ill I am honored by Hugh Urban’s (2001) attention to my work, particu- larly its sweeping consideration of so much of it and by the fascinat- ing, though somewhat speculative, biographical angle which adds not only a bit…
What Does Democracy Mean
The open-ended responses of 701 7th to 12th graders to the question “What does democracy mean to you?” were analyzed. In logistic regressions, age, parental education, political discussions, and participation in extracurricular activities distinguished youth who could define democracy (53%) from those who could not. Case clustering revealed three emphases in youths’ definitions: individual rights (30%), representative rule (40%), and civic equali…
School and community climates and civic commitments
The developmental correlates of diffuse support for the polity and civic commitments were explored in a survey of 1,052 students (mean age 14.96 years) from African American, Arab American, European American, and Latino American backgrounds. Results of structural equation modeling revealed that regardless of their age, gender, or ethnic background, youth were more likely to believe that America was a just society and to commit to democratic goals…
Home Visitor Competence, Burnout, Support, and Client Engagement
Home visitor characteristics, on-the-job training and support, job satisfaction, burnout, and turnover were examined over a five-year period. Home visitors were adequately trained, and scored high on measures of knowledge, competence, psychological functioning (indicated by measures of burnout and depression), and job satisfaction at program entry. Over time, home visitation was associated with higher emotional exhaustion and lower job satisfacti…
Promoting Academic and Social-Emotional School Readiness
Forty-four Head Start classrooms were randomly assigned to enriched intervention (Head Start REDI-Research-based, Developmentally Informed) or "usual practice" conditions. The intervention involved brief lessons, "hands-on" extension activities, and specific teaching strategies linked empirically with the promotion of: (a) social-emotional competencies and (b) language development and emergent literacy skills. Take-home materials were provided to…
Ethnic Awareness, Prejudice, and Civic Commitments in Four Ethnic Groups of American Adolescents
Fostering High-Quality Teaching With an Enriched Curriculum and Professional Development Support
This randomized controlled trial tested whether teaching quality in Head Start classrooms could be improved with the addition of evidence-based curriculum components targeting emergent language or literacy and social-emotional development and the provision of associated professional development support. Participants were lead and assistant teachers in 44 Head Start classrooms. Teachers received 4 days of workshop training along with weekly in-cla…
Implementation quality
Early Head Start start-up planning
This study examined the quality of start–up planning of two Early Head Start (EHS) agencies and its association with staff satisfaction, burnout, and turnover a year after program implementation. Respondents (N = 65) completed interviews and surveys at two time points. Data were analyzed in the context of the Head Start's EHS Organizational Readiness Chart. Both programs addressed salient aspects of organizational readiness, including establishme…
Parent engagement in a Head Start home visiting program predicts sustained growth in children’s school readiness
Home visitor readiness, job support, and job satisfaction across three home visitation programs
What the One Thing Shows Me in the Case of Two Things”
Comparison is a fundamental operation in the milieu of the remarkable abilities of human beings to transcend themselves in acts of perception and the accumulation of knowledge. Comparison is holding together things that are at once the same and different. The very possibility of the copresence of same and different, of is and is not, is a gift of human biology and evolution. Humans compare because it is our distinctive nature to do so. Academics …
What kind of parenting is associated with early self-control among toddlers living in poverty? The importance of learning support
The present study examined what kind of parenting best supports toddlers' self-control in the context of poverty. Parents and toddlers (52% female; M age = 2.60 years) in 117 families (35% White, 25% Black, 22% Latinx, 15% Multiracial, and 3% Asian; M family income = $1,845/month) engaged in structured interaction tasks, and toddlers completed a snack delay task concurrently and after 6 months. Latent profile analysis based on eight observed pare…
The Glory Jest and Riddle
The late Jonathan Z. Smith was a central influence in the development of a study of religion on a par with the social and even natural sciences. This article reexamines Smith’s legacy for the inspiration to build a proper academic study of religion. It looks to Smith’s common use of jokes and riddles, grounded in his early studies of Frazer’s The Golden Bough , in order to tease out not simply stylistic or methodological concerns, but fundamental…
Promoting toddlers' self-regulation and healthy eating habits among families living in poverty
The Recipe 4 Success preventive intervention targeted multiple factors critical to the health and well-being of toddlers living in poverty. This randomized controlled trial, which was embedded within Early Head Start home visits for 12 weeks, included 242 racially and ethnically diverse families (51% girls; toddler mean age = 2.58 years; data collected 2016–2019). Compared to parents in usual practice home visits, parents in Recipe 4 Success disp…
The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Commodification
Digitization is taking over every sphere of life—including the arts. Through the process of digital commodity fetishism, major technology companies threaten to efface the very qualities that make creative expression—particularly the performing arts—distinct and meaningful. To resist or even question these forces, we must excavate an invisible digital politics that can displace (and replace) traditional sources of authority in the performing arts.…
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