Adam, Emma
Edwina S. Tarry Professor of Human Development and Social Policy
Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research
Degrees
- 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.
Bonilla, Tabitha
Assistant Professor, Human Development & Social Policy
Degrees
- M.A. Political Science, Stanford University, 2015
- B.S. Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007
- B.S. Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007
- Ph.D. Political Science, Stanford University
Research Interests
Political communication, identity (race, gender, and intersectionality), political behavior (voting, contact with representatives, etc.) , political attitudes, and measurement of bias.
Chase-Lansdale, P. Lindsay
Frances Willard Professor, Human Development and Social Policy
Vice Provost for Academics and Co-Associate Provost for Faculty
Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research
Degrees
- 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.
Degrees
- PhD, Education, Stanford University, 2001
- MA, Sociology, Stanford University, 1997
- BA, Philosophy, Oberlin College, 1989
Research Interests
Relationship between instructional policy and teachers' classroom practices in urban schools, Relationship between research and policy
Colyvas, Jeannette
Associate Professor, Human Development and Social Policy
Associate Professor, Learning Sciences
Associate Professor and Executive Board Member, Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)
Associate Professor (by courtesy), Department of Sociology
Associate Professor (by courtesy), MORS, Kellogg School of Management
Faculty Affiliate, Institute for Policy Research
Director of Undergraduate Programs, School of Education and Social Policy
Degrees
- 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 Lomax
Professor Emeritus, Human Development and Social Policy
Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research
Degrees
- 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.
Destin, Mesmin
Associate Professor, Human Development and Social Policy
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
Degrees
- 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
Dean, School of Education and Social Policy
Orrington Lunt Professor of Education and Social Policy
Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research
Degrees
- 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
*ON LEAVE 9/ 2019 - 8/ 2020 *
Lawyer Taylor Professor of Education and Social Policy
Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research
Degrees
- 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.
Haase, Claudia
Faculty Affiliate, Institute for Innovations in Developmental Sciences
Associate Professor (by courtesy), Department of Psychology
Associate Professor, Human Development and Social Policy
Faculty Associate, Institute for Policy Research
Degrees
- Postdoc, Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, 2013
- PhD, Psychology, University of Jena, 2007
- Diploma, Psychology, University of Jena, 2003
Research Interests
Life-span development, emotion, motivation, close relationships, psychophysiology
Hedges, Larry
Board of Trustees Professor of Statistics and Social Policy
Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research
Degrees
- 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 Emeritus, Human Development and Social Policy
Degrees
- 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.
Ispa-Landa, Simone
Associate Professor, Human Development and Social Policy
Degrees
Research Interests
Race and ethnicity, gender, sociology of education, criminal records, sociology of youth and childhood, stigma, qualitative research methods.
Jackson, Kirabo
Abraham Harris Professor of Education and Social Policy
Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research
Degrees
- 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
Degrees
- 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.
Logan, Regina
Assistant Professor of Instruction and Adviser
Degrees
- MA, French Language and Literature, University of Wisconsin, 1971
- AB, French Language and Literature, University of Michigan, 1970
- PhD, Human Development and Social Policy, Northwestern University, 1993
- MA, Teaching & Learning Processes, Northwestern University, 1984
Research Interests
Stability and change over time in adulthood, especially during midlfe and beyond: wisdom, regret and life themes; gender differences in these areas.
Malamud, Ofer
*ON LEAVE 9/ 2019 - 8/ 2020 *
Associate Professor, Human Development and Social Policy
Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research
Degrees
- PhD, Economics, Harvard University, 2004
- BA, Economics and Philosophy, Harvard University, 1997
Research Interests
General and vocational education, Technology and child development, Returns to college education
McAdams, Dan
The Henry Wade Rogers Professor of Psychology
Professor, Human Development and Social Policy
Degrees
- 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
Degrees
- 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.
Mulroy, Quinn
Assistant Professor, Human Development and Social Policy
Assistant Professor (by courtesy), Political Science
Faculty Associate, Institute for Policy Research
Degrees
- PhD, Political Science, Columbia University, 2012
- BA, Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, 2001
Research Interests
Political analysis; policy development and implementation; political institutions (law and courts, regulatory agencies, Congress); civil rights, environmental, and education policy; relationship between state and society/public and private; and American political development.
Nuamah, Sally
Assistant Professor
Degrees
- Ph.D. Political Science and Methodology , Northwestern University , 2016
- M.A. Political Science, Northwestern University , 2013
- BA Political Science and Public Policy, The George Washington University, 2011
Research Interests
Professor Nuamah’s research sits at the intersections of race, gender, education policy, and political behavior. In particular, she uses quantitative and qualitative methods to examine the political consequences of public policies across the United States as well as in Ghana and South Africa.
Her dissertation, and recently completed book manuscript, examines the political effects of mass public school closure on low-income African Americans. Professor Nuamah’s first book, How Girls Achieve (2019), looks across race and gender and illuminates the unequal costs—school closure, sexual harassment, punishment—that poor black girls in the United States, Ghana and South Africa bear while striving to achieve. It then investigates the specific role of schools to combat these abuses and act as conduits of democratic equity.
Professor Nuamah’s newest research seeks to build on this work by investigating the impacts of black women and girls’ disproportionate experiences with punishment on their participation in American democracy.
In the future, she plans to expand this investigation to Ghana and South Africa as well. Her work has been published in academic journals including the American Education Research Journal, the Journal of Urban Affairs and the Urban Affairs Review, and has been featured in popular media including the Washington Post, Salon.com and TEDx. For this work, she was recently awarded the prestigious Andrew Carnegie Fellowship, named a Susan Clarke Young Scholar AND Clarence Stone Scholar from the Urban Politic Section of the American Political Science Association.
Percheski, Christine
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology
Associate Professor (by courtesy), Human Development and Social Policy
Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research
Degrees
- PhD, Princeton University, 2008
- BA, Dartmouth College, 2001
Research Interests
Changes and variations in families; demography; economic inequality; access to health care resources; parental employment patterns
Peterson, Penelope
Professor Emeritus, School of Education and Social Policy
Eleanor R. Baldwin Professor, Education
Former Dean, School of Education and Social Policy
Former Professor, Human Development and Social Policy
Former Professor, Learning Sciences
Degrees
- 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.
Qu, Yang
Assistant Professor, Human Development and Social Policy
Assistant Professor (by courtesy), Department of Psychology
Faculty Associate, Institute for Policy Research
Degrees
- Postdoc, Psychology, Stanford University, 2018
- PhD, Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2016
- MS, Statistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2013
- MA, Psychology, New York University, 2010
- BS, Psychology, Fudan University, 2008
Research Interests
Psychological and neural mechanisms underlying cultural differences in adolescents’ academic, social, and emotional development; role of parents in adolescents’ beliefs and brain development, with implications for learning and psychological adjustment.
Rogers, Leoandra Onnie
Assistant Professor, Psychology, Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences
Assistant Professor (by courtesy), Human Development and Social Policy
Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research
Degrees
- PhD, Developmental Psychology, New York University, 2012
- BA, Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, 2004
Research Interests
Identity development among children and adolescents in sociocultural contexts; intersectionality and multiple identities; psychosocial and academic development among racially/ethnically diverse youth
Lab website:
D.I.C.E (Development of Identities in Cultural Environments)
Rosenbaum, James
Professor, Human Development and Social Policy
Professor, Sociology, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research
Degrees
- PhD, Sociology, Harvard University, 1973
- MA, Sociology, Harvard University, 1968
- BA, Culture and Behavior, Yale University, 1966
Research Interests
High schools, community colleges, youth transitions to work and adulthood. School and college reform and restructuring. Sociology of education.
Sabol, Terri J.
Assistant Professor, Human Development and Social Policy
Degrees
- PhD, Applied Development Science, University of Virginia, 2011
- BA, Psychology and English, University of Michigan, 2004
Research Interests
Individual and environmental factors that lead to healthy child development.
Schanzenbach, Diane
Margaret Walker Alexander Professor of Human Development and Social Policy
Director and Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research
Degrees
- 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
Degrees
- 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
Degrees
- 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
Professor, Human Development and Social Policy
Professor, Learning Sciences
Faculty Associate, Institute for Policy Research
Degrees
- 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
Degrees
- 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 and Vice Chair for Scientific and Faculty Development, Department of
Medical Social Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine
Professor, Human Development and Social Policy
Degrees
- 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
Degrees
- Postdoc, Developmental Psychology, University of Kansas
- MA, Mass Communication, University of Minnesota
- BA, Communication, University of Pittsburgh
- PhD, Mass Communication, University of Minnesota
Research Interests
Effects of media on children and adolescents, impact of food marketing in the childhood obesity crisis.