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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Degrees

Research Interests

Race and ethnicity, gender, sociology of education, criminal records, sociology of youth and childhood, stigma, qualitative research methods.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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)

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.

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.

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.

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.

Degrees

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.