Adam, Emma
Associate Professor, Education and Social Policy
Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research
- MA, Public Policy, University of Chicago, 1998
- PhD, Child Psychology, University of Minnesota, 1998
- MA, Applied Developmental Psychology, University of Toronto, 1992
- BS, Psychology, University of Toronto, 1990
Research Interests
Social influences on emotional and physiological stress and sleep quality in children and adolescents and their parents; effects of stress and sleep on emotional and physical health and academic outcomes.
Chase-Lansdale, P. Lindsay
*ON LEAVE 1/ 2012 - 12/ 2012 *
*ON LEAVE 1/ 2012 - 12/ 2012 *
Professor, Human Development and Social Policy
Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research
- PhD, Developmental Psychology, The University of Michigan, 1981
- BA, Social Relations, Harvard University, Radcliffe College, 1974
Research Interests
Public policy and child and adolescent development; family functioning; health disparities; consequences of poverty and welfare reform on children and families.
Colyvas, Jeannette
Assistant Professor, Human Development and Social Policy
Assistant Professor, Learning Sciences
- PhD, Stanford University, 2007
- MA, Sociology, MA, East Asian Studies, Stanford University
Research Interests
Organizations and entrepreneurship; institutions and networks; comparing public, private, and non-profit forms of organizing; university-industry interfaces; public and private science.
Cook, Fay
Professor, Human Development and Social Policy
Director and Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research
- PhD, Social Welfare Policy, University of Chicago, 1977
- MA, Social Welfare Policy, University of Chicago, 1972
- MA, English Literature, University of North Carolina, 1968
- BA, English, Millsaps College, Jackson, Mississippi, 1965
Research Interests
The interrelationships between public opinion and social policy; the politics of public policy; the effects of public deliberation on political knowledge and participation; and the dynamics of public support for older Americans.
Cook, Thomas
Joan and Sarepta Harrison Chair in Ethics and Justice
Professor, Human Development and Social Policy
Professor, Psychology
Professor, Sociology
- PhD, Stanford, 1967
- BA, Oxford, 1963
Research Interests
Social science methodology, evaluation, educational policy.
Destin, Mesmin
Assistant Professor, Human Development and Social Policy
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology
- PhD, Social Psychology, University of Michigan, 2010
- BA, Psychology and Sociology, Northwestern University, 2005
Research Interests
Psychological processes underlying associations between socioeconomic circumstances and behaviors/outcomes, such as academic motivation and achievement; effects of financial assets on goals and behavior; small classroom-based interventions to improve school outcomes for low-income and minority youth.
Figlio, David
Faculty Fellow, Insitute for Policy Research
Orrington Lunt Professor of Education and Social Policy
Professor, Human Development and Social Policy
- PhD, Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1995
- MS, Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1992
- BS, Business Economics and Public Policy, George Washington University, 1991
Research Interests
Accountability policy; economics of education; teacher quality; teacher labor markets; anti-poverty policy; intergenerational transmission of human capital; evaluation design.
Guryan, Jonathan
Associate Professor, Human Development and Social Policy
Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research
- PhD, Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000
- AB, Economics, Princeton University, 1996
Research Interests
Understanding the sources and consequences of racial inequality and the economics of education.
Hedges, Larry
Board of Trustees Professor of Statistics and Social Policy
Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research
- PhD, Mathematical Methods in Educational Research, Stanford University, 1980
- MA, Statistics, Stanford University
- BA, Mathematics, University of California at San Diego
Research Interests
Development and application of statistical methods for the social, medical, and biological sciences; evaluation research.
Hirsch, Barton
Professor, Human Development and Social Policy
- Postdoctorate, Social Ecology, Stanford University, 1981
- PhD, Psychology, University of Oregon, 1979
- BA, Philosophy, University of Wisconsin, 1971
Research Interests
After-school programs; soft skills and the school-to-work transition; program development, implementation, and evaluation, particularly with respect to positive youth development; social relations during adolescence, with an emphasis on gender, race and social system influences.
Ispa-Landa, Simone
Assistant Professor, Human Development and Social Policy
- PhD, Sociology, Harvard University, 2011
- AM, Sociology, Harvard University, 2007
- AM, Regional Studies, Russia, Eastern Europe, Central Asian Studies, Harvard University, 2003
- BA, Literary Journalism and Russian, Hampshire College, 1999
Research Interests
Qualitative methods, race and ethnic relations, social identity, education, gender, American family, intersectionality theory, micro-macro links.
Jackson, Kirabo
Assistant Professor, Human Development and Social Policy
Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research
- PhD, Economics, Harvard University, 2007
- AM, Economics, Harvard University, 2005
- BA, Ethics, Politics and Economics, Yale University, 2002
Research Interests
Economics of education, labor economics, public finance, applied econometrics, development.
Lewis, Dan
Professor, Human Development and Social Policy
Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research
- PhD, History of Consciousness, University of California at Santa Cruz, 1980
- BA, Political Science, Stanford University, 1968
Research Interests
Lewis currently heads a large-scale university consortium to study welfare reform efforts in Illinois. In another current project he is developing a new Suburban Action Research Project that will deliver technical assistance to suburbs struggling with social problems. It will concentrate on issues of homelessness and crime prevention in its initial phase.
Mandara, Jelani
Associate Professor, Human Development and Social Policy
- PhD, Social/Personality Psychology, University of California, Riverside, 2002
- BS, Psychology, California State University, Long Beach, 1997
McAdams, Dan
Professor, Human Development and Social Policy
Professor, Psychology
Director, The Foley Center for the Study of Lives
- PhD, Psychology and Social Relations, Harvard University, 1979
- BS, Psychology and Humanities, Valparaiso University, 1976
Research Interests
Narrative psychology; the development of a life-story model of human identity; generativity and adult development; themes of power, intimacy, and redemption in human lives; modernity and the self; autobiographical memory; psychological biography.
McDade, Thomas
Associate Professor, Human Development and Social Policy
Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research
Director, Laboratory for Human Biology Research
- PhD, Emory, 1999
Research Interests
Human biology, biocultural perspectives on health and human development, medical anthropology and global health, ecological immunology, stress, health disparities, laboratory methods.
Peterson, Penelope
Eleanor R. Baldwin Professor, Education
Dean, School of Education and Social Policy
Professor, Human Development and Social Policy
Professor, Learning Sciences
- MA, Psychological Studies in Education, Stanford University, 1976
- PhD, Psychological Studies in Education, Stanford University, 1976
- BS, Psychology and Philosophy, Iowa State University, 1971
Research Interests
Learning and teaching in schools and classrooms, particularly in literacy and mathematics; student and teacher learning in reform contexts; relations among educational research, policy and practice.
Rosenbaum, James
Professor, Human Development and Social Policy
Professor, Sociology, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research
- PhD, Sociology, Harvard University, 1973
- MA, Sociology, Harvard University, 1968
- BA, Culture and Behavior, Yale University, 1966
Research Interests
Poverty and housing; welfare reform; high school to work transition.
Schanzenbach, Diane
Associate Professor, Human Development and Social Policy
Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research
- PhD, Economics, Princeton University, 2002
- MA, Economics, Princeton University, 1999
- AB, Economics and Religion, Wellesley College, 1995
Research Interests
Early childhood education; accountability policy; economics of education; obesity; anti-poverty policy; education and health.
Schapiro, Morton
Professor
President, Northwestern University
- PhD, Economics, University of Pennsylvania, 1979
- MA, Economics, University of Pennsylvania, 1976
- BS, Economics, Hofstra University, 1975
Research Interests
Economics of higher education, with particular interest in the area of college financing and affordability and on trends in educational costs and student aid.
Spencer, Bruce
Professor, Statistics
Professor, Human Development and Social Policy
Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research
- PhD, Yale University, 1979
Research Interests
Statistics and public policy with a special focus on the design and evaluation of large-scale statistical data programs.
Spillane, James
Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Professor in Learning and Organizational Change
Chair and Professor, Human Development and Social Policy
Professor, Learning Sciences
Faculty Associate, Institute for Policy Research
- PhD, Curriculum, Teaching and Education Policy, Michigan State University, 1993
- BA, Education and Geography, St. Patrick's College, National University of Ireland, 1984
Research Interests
Policy implementation; educational policy; organizational change; school leadership; relations between policy and teachers' and administrators' practice.
Teplin, Linda
Owen L. Coon Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Clinical Psychology
Director of the Psycho-Legal Studies Program, Northwestern University Medical School
- PhD, Northwestern University, 1975
Research Interests
Epidemiologic studies of psychiatric disorders, juvenile justice, drug abuse, public health policy, HIV/AIDS risk behaviors, correlates of violence (victimization and perpetration).
Wakschlag, Laurie
Professor, Medical Social Sciences and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Professor, Human Development and Social Policy
- PhD, Psychology, University of Chicago, 1992
- MA, Social Work, University of Chicago, 1983
- BA, Psychology, Barnard College, 1980
Research Interests
Translational approaches to elucidating mechanisms and phenomenology of early emerging disruptive behavior.
Wartella, Ellen
Professor, Human Development and Social Policy
Professor, Communication and Psychology
- Postdoc, Developmental Psychology, University of Kansas
- MA, Mass Communication, University of Minnesota
- BA, Communication, University of Pittsburgh
- PhD, Mass Communication, University of Minnesota