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This interview with Dr. Alice Sterling Honig took place in Syracuse, New York, in May 2009. Michele Jachim Barrett of Syracuse University conducted the interview using questions prepared by the editors of ECRP. Dr. Honig is currently Professor Emerita at Syracuse University. Her work in early childhood development, care, and education spans several decades and continents. Her contributions to the field have included research, university teaching, advocacy, training of parents and caregivers, and rearing her own children. She has pursued a broad range of interests since first becoming involved in the study of child development in the 1960s, including such topics as quality of infant-toddler care, iron deficiency in infants, parent-child relationships, children's linguistic and social development, and the effects of poverty on children's development.