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| Adam, Emma
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| Associate Professor, Education and Social Policy |
| Faculty Fellow , Institute for Policy Research |
| Identifying social influences on emotional and physiological stress in children and adolescents and their parents; effects of acute and chronic physiological stress on emotional and physical health, in particular the role of HPA axis activity in the emergence of early health disparities and the development of emotional disorders over the transition to adulthood. |
BS, Psychology , University of Toronto , 1990
MA, Applied Developmental Psychology , University of Toronto , 1992
MA, Public Policy , University of Chicago , 1998
PhD, Child Psychology , University of Minnesota , 1998
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| Chase-Lansdale, P. Lindsay
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| Professor, Human Development and Social Policy PhD Program |
| Faculty Fellow , Institute for Policy Research |
| Public policy and child and adolescent development; family functioning; consequences of poverty and welfare reform on children and families |
BA, Social Relations , Harvard University, Radcliffe College , 1974
PhD, Developmental Psychology , The University of Michigan , 1981
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| Colyvas, Jeannette
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| Organizations and entrepreneurship, comparing public, private, and non-profit forms of organizing, and the study of networks |
Ph.D. , Stanford University , 2007
M.A., Sociology, M.A., East Asian Studies , Stanford University
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| Cook, Fay
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| Professor, Human Development and Social Policy PhD Program |
| Director and Faculty Fellow , Institute for Policy Research |
| 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 |
BA, English , Millsaps College, Jackson, Mississippi , 1965
MA, English Literature , University of North Carolina , 1968
MA, Social Welfare Policy , University of Chicago , 1972
PhD, Social Welfare Policy , University of Chicago , 1977
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| Cook, Thomas
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| Joan and Serepta Harrison Chair in Ethics and Justice |
| Professor , Psychology |
| Professor , Sociology |
| Professor, Human Development and Social Policy PhD Program |
| Fellow , American Academy of Arts and Sciences |
| Social science methodology, evaluation, educational policy |
Ph.D. , Stanford , 1967
B.A. , Oxford , 1963
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| Duncan, Greg
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| Edwina S. Tarry Professor , Education |
| Faculty Fellow , Institute for Policy Research |
| Impacts of poverty, neighborhood conditions and welfare reform on children's development; program evaluation |
BA, Economics , Grinnell College , 1970
PhD, Economics , University of Michigan , 1974
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| Hedges, Larry
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| Board of Trustees Professor of Statistics and Social Policy |
| Faculty Fellow , Institute for Policy Research |
| Development and application of statistical methods for the social, medical, and biological sciences. |
B.A., Mathematics , University of California at San Diego
M.A., Statistics , Stanford University
Ph.D., Mathematical Methods in Educational Research , Stanford University , 1980
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| Hirsch, Barton
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| Professor, Human Development and Social Policy |
| After-school programs; program development, implementation, and evaluation; social relations during adolescence, with an emphasis on gender, race and social system influences; social networks. |
BA, Philosophy , University of Wisconsin , 1971
PhD, Psychology , University of Oregon , 1979
Postdoctorate, Social Ecology , Stanford University , 1981
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| Konstantopoulos, Spyros
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| Assistant Professor |
| Multilevel Models; Statistical Power; Teacher and School Effects; Class Size Effects; Meta-Analysis; Group Differences in Achievement. |
BA, Primary Education and Educational Psychology , University of Athens Greece , 1992
MS, Educational Psychology and Research Methodology , Purdue University , 1995
MS, Statistics , University of Chicago , 1999
PhD., Research Methodology , University of Chicago , 2003
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| Lewis, Dan
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| Professor, Human Development and Social Policy |
| Faculty Fellow , Institute for Policy Research |
| Lewis currently heads a large-scale university consortium that will 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. |
BA, Political Science , Stanford University , 1968
PhD, History of Consciousness , University of California at Santa Cruz , 1980
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| Logan, Regina
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| Research Assistant Professor , Foley Center for the Study of Lives |
A.B. French Language and Literature , University of Michigan , 1970
M.A. French Language and Literature , University of Wisconsin , 1971
PhD, Human Dev & Social Pol, Northwestern University, 1993
MA, Teaching & Learning Processes, Northwestern University, 1984
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| Mandara, Jelani
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| Assistant Professor, Human Development and Social Policy |
| Effects of parenting, fathers, and other home factors on child and adolescent academic and social development. Further interests include cultural differences between teachers and parents and mothers and fathers, the achievement gap, and person-centered research methods. |
BS, Psychology , California State University, Long Beach , 1997
PhD, Social/Personality Psychology , University of California, Riverside , 2002
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| McAdams, Dan
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| Professor, Human Development and Social Policy |
| Professor , Psychology |
| Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence |
| Director , The Foley Center for the Study of Lives |
| Chair, Human Development and Social Policy Program |
| Director of Graduate Studies (DGS) in Psychology |
| 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. |
BS, Psychology and Humanities , Valparaiso University , 1976
PhD, Psychology and Social Relations , Harvard University , 1979
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| Reininger, Michelle
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| Assistant Professor, Human Development and Social Policy |
| Assistant Professor, Learning Sciences |
| Faculty Fellow , Institute for Policy Research |
PhD, Social Sciences, Policy and Educational Practice , Stanford University , 2006
MA, Economics , Stanford University , 2004
MA, Leadership, Foundations and Policy , University of Virginia , 2001
BA, Biochemistry , University of Colorado , 1996
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| Rosenbaum, James
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| Professor, Human Development and Social Policy |
| Professor , Sociology, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences |
| Faculty Fellow , Institute for Policy Research |
| Coordinator, Human Development and Social Policy Program |
| Poverty and housing; welfare reform; high school to work transition. |
BA, Culture and Behavior , Yale University , 1966
MA, Sociology , Harvard University , 1968
PhD, Sociology , Harvard University , 1973
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| Spencer, Bruce
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| Professor , Statistics |
| Faculty Fellow , Institute for Policy Research |
| Statistics and public policy with a special focus on the design and evaluation of large-scale statistical data programs. |
PhD , Yale University , 1979
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| Spillane, James
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| Professor, Human Development and Social Policy |
| Faculty Fellow , Institute for Policy Research |
| Professor, Learning Sciences |
| Principal Investigator, Distributed Leadership Study |
| Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Professor in Learning and Organizational Change |
| Policy implementation; educational policy; organizational change; school leadership; relations between policy and teachers' and administrators' practice. |
BA, Education and Geography , St. Patrick's College, National University of Ireland , 1984
PhD, Curriculum, Teaching and Education Policy , Michigan State University , 1993
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| Teplin, Linda
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| Owen L. Coon Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences , Clinical Psychology |
| Director of the Psycho-Legal Studies Program , Northwestern University Medical School |
| She is currently conducting : The Northwestern Juvenile Project:a longitudinal study of a sample of 1800 youth who previously were subjects in her baseline study of juvenile detainees. She and her staff are examining the changing alcohol, drug and mental health service needs of these high-risk youth, their use of services and behaviors that put them at increased risk for violence, drug use and HIV/AIDS. |
PhD , Northwestern University , 1975
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