Dr Jeanne Stevenson-Moessner is Professor of Pastoral Care at Perkins School of Theology (Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas); an ordained Presbyterian minister (PCUSA); a Fellow in the American Association of Pastoral Counselors; a member of the International Academy of Practical Theology; a Henry Luce III Fellow; former missionary schoolteacher; and past Chair of the Society for Pastoral Theology. She is a graduate of Vanderbilt University, Princeton Theological Seminary, and the University of Basel, Switzerland. Her dissertation in Basel and her experience as a schoolteacher in a missionary Internat in the Black Forest of Germany gave her a foundation for this book and previous articles. She has edited four volumes, written five monographs, and published numerous articles. Dr Stevenson-Moessner has trained in rape crisis centers, a child abuse council, an addictive disease unit, four domestic violence programs, a community mental health clinic and a three-year residency at Georgia Baptist Hospital in Atlanta. Most recently, she completed a 2012 residency at the Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton, writing on the topic of the bicultural child.
This book challenges the traditional understanding of human development by focusing on identity formation in bicultural children. Drawing on a three-decade study, it explores themes of “rootlessness” and asks how transplanted roots can thrive.