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Adam, Emma
*ON LEAVE
9/ 2009 - 8/ 2010 *
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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; health disparities; consequences of poverty and welfare reform on children and families.
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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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| Assistant Professor, Human Development and Social Policy |
| Assistant Professor, Learning Sciences |
Organizations and entrepreneurship; institutions and networks; comparing public, private, and non-profit forms of organizing; university-industry interfaces; public and private science.
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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 Sarepta Harrison Chair in Ethics and Justice |
| Professor , Psychology |
| Professor , Sociology |
| Professor, Human Development and Social Policy |
| 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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| Figlio, David
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| Orrington Lunt Professor of Education and Social Policy |
| Professor, Human Development and Social Policy |
| Faculty Fellow, Insitute for Policy Research |
| Accountability policy; economics of education; teacher quality; teacher labor markets; anti-poverty policy; intergenerational transmission of human capital; evaluation design |
Ph.D, Economics , University of Wisconsin-Madison , 1995
M.S., Economics , University of Wisconsin-Madison , 1992
B.S., Business Economics and Public Policy , George Washington University , 1991
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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; evaluation research.
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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 |
| Chair, Human Development and Social Policy Program |
| After-school programs; 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. |
BA, Philosophy , University of Wisconsin , 1971
PhD, Psychology , University of Oregon , 1979
Postdoctorate, Social Ecology , Stanford University , 1981
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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 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. |
BA, Political Science , Stanford University , 1968
PhD, History of Consciousness , University of California at Santa Cruz , 1980
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| Mandara, Jelani
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| Associate Professor, Human Development and Social Policy |
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 |
| 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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| McDade, Thomas
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| Associate Professor |
| Faculty Fellow , Institute for Policy Research |
| Director , Laboratory for Human Biology Research |
| Human biology, biocultural perspectives on health and human development, medical anthropology and global health, ecological immunology, stress, health disparities, laboratory methods |
Ph.D. , Emory , 1999
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| Peterson, Penelope
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| Dean , School of Education and Social Policy |
| Eleanor R. Baldwin Professor , Education |
| Professor, Learning Sciences |
| Professor, Human Development and Social Policy |
| 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. |
BS, Psychology and Philosophy , Iowa State University , 1971
MA, Psychological Studies in Education , Stanford University , 1976
PhD, Psychological Studies in Education , Stanford University , 1976
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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 |
| 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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| Schapiro, Morton
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| President, Northwestern University |
| Professor |
PhD, Economics , University of Pennsylvania , 1979
BS, Economics , Hofstra University , 1975
MA, Economics , University of Pennsylvania , 1976
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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 |
| 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 |
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PhD , Northwestern University , 1975
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