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Monday, September 29 2025

If you’re interested in the current state of research on Third Culture Kids (TCKs), Cross-Cultural Kids (CCKs), expat families and international life in general, you’ll want to check out the TCK Research Podcast.

Every episode, hosts Mathieu Gagnon and Andrea Schmitt interview a leading researcher on topics central to the TCK experience.

Episodes posted to date include:

  • Dr. Cheryl Hartman: How Missionary Kid experiences shape later adult lives
  • Dr. Magdalena Mosanya: How TCKs’ identity configurations relate to their views on the environment
  • Dr. Chloé Donohue: Reviewing the published studies on TCK issues concerning identity and belonging
  • Dr. Jennie Germann Molz: Worldschooling, Global citizenship and Emotion
  • Claire D’attoma: Exploring Third Culture Parenting from the perspective of mothers
  • Dr. Yuima Mizutani: Exploring the experiences of TCK Confucian Asian college students
  • Dr. Filipič Sterle: Expatriate Family Adjustment, Challenges and Resources
  • Dr. Courtney Giboi and Dr. Sanjay Nath: How multi-country immersers develop transnational Identities
  • Dr. Ragnhild Holmen Bjørnsen: Assumed privilege, feeling rules and emotion regulation in TCKs
  • Dr Kristin Long: Exploring the fractured stories of TCKs with expressive arts therapy
  • Katja Aegerter: Exploring different stressors related to expatriate spouses/partners’ wellbeing

Check them out here.

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John Liang

John Liang is an Adult Third Culture Kid who grew up in Guatemala, Costa Rica, the United States, Morocco and Egypt before graduating high school. He has a bachelor's degree in languages from Georgetown University and a master's in International Policy Studies from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. Liang has covered the U.S. military for two decades as a writer and editor for InsideDefense.com, and is also editor-in-chief of Culturs Magazine. He lives in Arlington, Va., U.S.A.

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