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| Albaugh, Michelle
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| My interests include religious identity, religious trends in American society and culture, leadership in religious organizations, leadership training of church laity, charismatic/transformational leadership, person-organization interactions in leadership, qualitative narrative methods, latent variable analysis and structural methods, and survey research. |
Bachelor of Music , DePaul University , 1994
MA, Human Dev & Social Pol, Northwestern University, 2007
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| Bernstein, Sara
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| Program coordination, evaluation, and availability of quality childcare for low-income families |
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| Chung, Vicki
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| Impact of immigration and acculturation on child and family outcomes; currently examining the psychological, social/relational, and environmental factors affecting the academic performance and school behavior of immigrant children. |
B.A. (English Language and Literature) , University of Chicago , 1994
M.A. (Social Service Administration) , University of Chicago , 1997
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| DeSantis, Amy
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| My research interests include racial/ethnic and socio-economic health disparities; social influences on physical and mental health, and HPA activity and the physiological processes through which environmental stressors operate to influence health outcomes. |
MSW , Boston College , 2001
BA , Bryn Mawr College , 1996
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| Doane, Leah
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| My research interests include adolescence and the transition to adulthood, psychopathology and relationship functioning. I am currently investigating the emergence of depressive and anxious disorders over the transition to adulthood. |
A.B., Pyschology , Cornell University , 2002
M.A., Human Development and Social Policy , Northwestern University , 2006
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| Fisher-Pai, Elizabeth (Betsy)
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| Teacher training, continuing education, alternative certification pathways |
B.A., Public Policy Analysis and Biology , Pomona College, Claremont, CA , 1998
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| Goble, Lisbeth
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| MPES Cohort 3 |
| Education policy and evaluation; K-12 urban education; teacher effects; quantitative and qualitative methods in education; and adult literacy |
B.S. (Statistics) , University of Michigan , 2002
M.A. (Quantitative Methods in Social Science) , Columbia University , 2003
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| Healey, Kaleen
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| Policy development and implementation for urban school reform; turn-around plans for underperforming schools; effects of concentrated poverty in schools |
MA, Cultural and Educational Policy Studies , Loyola University Chicago , 2006
BFA, Design , University of Notre Dame , 2000
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| Klevan, Miriam
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Narrative psychology; narrative therapy; adult and child development; infertility, adoption, and foster care; narratives of people forming “unusual” families; and narratives employed by members of adopted and foster families.
Miriam Klevan is currently analyzing life story narratives focused on the infertility and adoption experience collected from 38 people (19 heterosexual couples) who adopted after experiencing infertility. |
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| Lindsay, Constance
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| MPES Cohort 3 |
My research interest lies in understanding the causes and consequences of racial achievement gaps. I am interested mainly in adolescence, and particularly the factors that lead to or detract from high school completion and later educational attainment. Other research interests include dealing with missing data in large datasets, program evaluation, and the impact of public assistance programs on family and child well-being. |
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| Mesler, Leigh
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| MPES Cohort 4 |
| Educational policy; policy implementation, especially as it relates to urban schools; and poverty. |
BA, History and Sociology , University of Pennsylvania , 2003
MS, Education: Teaching , Pace University , 2005
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| Metzger, Molly
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| My interests cross a variety of developmental domains, with an emphasis on prevention research. More specifically, I am interested in school readiness and early childhood interventions; breastfeeding and the prevention of child obesity; and the relationship between social-emotional skills and later achievement. |
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| Monte, Lindsay
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| PhD Candidate |
| Urban poverty, women's criminality, family structure, welfare policy. |
BA, Sociology , New York University , 1999
MA, Human Dev & Social Pol, Northwestern University, 2004
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| Palacios, Natalia
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| MPES Cohort 1 |
| Achievement, early childhood education, childcare, and education policy; focus on low-income, minority and immigrant families. |
BA, Psychology , Brown University , 2001
MA, Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University, 2007
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| Petrie, Dani
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| MPES Cohort 4 |
A.B. Public and International Affairs , Princeton University , 1990
M.A. Instructional Technology , Teachers College Columbia University , 1994
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| Stein, Becca
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B.A. in French Culture and Language , University of South Carolina , 2002
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| Stephan, Jennifer
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| MPES Cohort 2 |
| access and success in higher education; the relationship between school transitions and social stratification; education policy; counselors |
MA, Economics , Princeton University , 1998
BA, Economics , Vassar College , 1995
MA, Human Dev & Social Pol, Northwestern University, 2006
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| Till, Lindsay
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The effects of interpersonal relationships on physical and mental health outcomes for adolescents and young adults from different racial/ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds.
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BA, Psychology and Peace Studies , University of Notre Dame , 2005
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| Valdovinos D'Angelo, Angela
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| Family structure, father involvement, immigrant families, marriage, and cohabitation. |
BA, English , Northwestern University , 2002
MA, Human Dev & Social Pol, Northwestern University, 2006
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| Weitz White, Kathryn
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| MPES Cohort 1 |
| education and adolescents; civic engagement and the roots of generativity in adolescence; narrative identity development; educator's leadership narratives and cognitive proceses; education policy |
Masters of Education , DePaul University , 1999
Bachelors of Arts , Carleton College , 1996
MA, Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University, 2005
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| Wilkerson, Bessie
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| Family structure, including risk and resiliency of children born out of wedlock; impacts of changes in family structure on adults and children. |
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| Wong, Vivian
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| MPES Cohort 1 |
Within-study comparisons of experimental and quasi-experimental designs; issues in the implementation and analysis of regression discontinuity and abbreviated interrupted time series designs; and evaluation of state pre-kindergarten programs.
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BA , University of Chicago , 1998
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| Zuberi, Anita
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Poverty, neighborhoods, families, housing mobility, public housing, social inequality, social policy.
Specifically, I am interested in how the neighborhood context (especially exposure to poverty) impacts the development of children and families, and how social policy can help improve the lives of low-income families. |
BA Sociology , Johns Hopkins University , 2000
MA, Human Dev & Social Pol, Northwestern University, 2006
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