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Faculty
Name |
Areas
of Research |
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Emma
Adam (on leave)
Associate Professor of Human Development and Social Policy
ek-adam@northwesternedu
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae
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Families
and stress |
• |
Stress and children’s behavioral, academic,
and emotional development |
• |
Effects of stress on health |
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Lori Beaman
Assistant Professor of Economics
l-beaman(at)northwestern(dot)edu
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae
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Development and labor economics |
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Social networks and information dissemination |
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Impact of development policies on decision-making |
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Gender |
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P.
Lindsay Chase-Lansdale
Professor of Human Development and Social Policy
Director, Cells to Society (C2S):
The Center on Social Disparities and Health
lcl@northwesternedu
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae |
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How social policy
issues affect family functioning and the development of children,
youth, and adults |
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Social
disparities and health and well-being |
• |
Two-generation programs to promote parents' and children's education |
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Fay
Lomax Cook
Professor of Human Development and Social Policy
Director, Institute for Policy Research
flc943@northwesternedu
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae
|
• |
Public
opinion and social policy |
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The politics of social policy |
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Public deliberation and deliberative
democracy |
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Social Security |
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Thomas
D. Cook
Joan and Sarepta Harrison Chair of Ethics and Justice
Professor of Sociology, Psychology, Education and Social Policy
t-cook@northwesternedu
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae |
• |
School
reform |
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Contexts of adolescent development |
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Design and execution
of social experiments |
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Theories of evaluation practice |
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Victoria DeFrancesco Soto
Assistant Professor of Political Science
vmds@northwestern.edu
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae |
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American politics: political psychology, voting, mobilization, public opinion |
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Race and ethnicity: Latino politics, immigration, studies of race, and interminority relations |
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Research methods |
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Micaela di Leonardo
Professor of Anthropology and Gender and Perfomance Studies
l-di@northwestern.edu
biographical sketch
|
• |
Global and US political economy |
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Urban studies |
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Gender and race inequalities |
• |
Street-level ethnography and public-cultural shifts |
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James
Druckman
Payson S. Wild Professor in Political Science
druckman@northwesternedu
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae |
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Competitive
framing |
• |
Web use in elections |
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Strategic collection and use
of public opinion information |
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Parliamentary coalitions in Eastern
Europe |
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Alice Eagly (on leave)
James Padilla Chair of Arts and Sciences
Professor of Psychology
eagly@northwesternedu
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae |
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Psychology
of attitudes |
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Gender studies |
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Women and leadership |
• |
Gender gap |
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The content of stereotypes about social groups |
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David Figlio
Orrington Lunt Professor of Education and Social Policy
figlio@northwesternedu
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae |
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School accountability |
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School vouchers |
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Education finance |
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Intergenerational issues in health and education |
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Teacher and principal quality |
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Welfare policy |
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Jeremy Freese (on leave)
Professor of Sociology
jfreese(at)northwestern(dot)edu
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae |
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Sociology and evolutionary biology |
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Social implications of genetics and genetic-based technologies |
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Policies and informed choice (eg, Medicare prescription drug benefit) |
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Cognition and environ-mental contexts |
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Sociological aspects of science and technology, health and medicine |
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Quantitative and qualitative methodology |
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Internet use |
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Laurel Harbridge
Assistant Professor of Political Science
l-harbridge@northwestern.edu
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae |
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American politics, congressional elections, public opinion and representation |
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Public policy (including budgetary policy) |
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Larry V. Hedges
Board of Trustees Professor of Statistics and Social
Policy
l-hedges@northwesternedu
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae |
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Statistical
methods for meta-analysis |
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Evidence-based methodology for social
science research |
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Social distribution of academic achievement
in America |
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Educational policies and practices |
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Christopher Kuzawa
Associate Professor of Anthropology
kuzawa@northwesternedu
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae
|
• |
Influences
of intrauterine and early postnatal environments on development
and long-term health |
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Social disparities and health |
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Dan A. Lewis
Professor of Human Development and Social Policy
dlewis@northwesternedu
biographical sketch
curriculum Vitae |
• |
Urban public
policies |
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Welfare reform |
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Public housing |
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Mental health issues |
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School decentralization and state politics |
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Charles F. Manski
Board of Trustees Professor in Economics
cfmanski@northwesternedu
biographical sketch
curriculum
Vitae |
• |
Econometrics
and statistics |
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Judgment and decision making: measuring consumer
confidence and expectations |
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Social policy analysis |
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Illegal drug
policies |
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Leslie McCall
Associate Professor of Sociology
AT&T Research Scholar
l-mccall@northwesternedu
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae |
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Social
inequality and class inequality among U.S. women |
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Economic inequality
and how racial, educational, and gender inequality
overlap |
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Economic and political sociology |
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Methods and social
theory |
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Thomas McDade
Weinberg College Board of Visitors Research and Teaching Professor
Associate Professor of Anthropology
t-mcdade@northwesternedu
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae |
• |
Stress
and health, with an emphasis on physiological mechanisms |
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Health
disparities |
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Biomarkers for population-based research |
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Social
and cultural contexts of stress and health |
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Therese McGuire
ConAgra Foods Research Professor in Strategic Management
therese-mcguire@northwesternedu
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae |
• |
State
and local public finance |
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Fiscal decentralization |
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Property
tax limitations |
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Education finance |
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Regional economic development |
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Monica Prasad
Associate Professor of Sociology
Email Monica Prasad
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae |
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Neoliberalism |
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Taxation |
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History of American political economy |
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Lincoln Quillian
Associate Professor of Sociology
l-quillian@northwesternedu
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae |
• |
Residential segregation |
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Simulation models of neighborhood formation |
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Neighborhood effects |
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Racial attitudes |
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Michelle Reininger
Assistant Professor of Human Development, Social
Policy,
and Learning Sciences
m-reininger@northwesternedu
biographical
sketch
curriculum vitae
|
• |
Economics
of education |
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Teacher labor markets |
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The role of community colleges
in teacher supply |
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Teacher retention and turnover |
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Jennifer Richeson
Associate Professor of Psychology
jriches@northwesternedu
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae |
• |
Dynamics
and conse-quences of interracial contact |
• |
Detecting and controlling
racial bias |
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Racial categorization and identity |
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Andrew Roberts
Assistant Professor of Political Science
aroberts@northwesternedu
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae |
• |
Comparative
politics |
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Quality of democracies |
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Politics of social policy
reforms: pension privatization, housing, and healthcare reforms |
|
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Dorothy Roberts
Kirkland & Ellis Professor of Law
d-roberts@lawnorthwesternedu
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae |
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Role of gender, race, and class in family law |
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Bioethics, and child welfare policy |
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Women and the
law |
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Critical race theory |
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Race and biotechnology |
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James Rosenbaum
Professor of Sociology, Education and Social Policy
j-rosenbaum@northwesternedu
biographical sketch
|
• |
High school-to-work
transition |
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Employers and community colleges |
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Gautreaux Program |
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Moving to Opportunity |
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Rebecca Seligman
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
r-seligman@northwestern.edu
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae
|
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Cultural influences on mental health and healing |
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effects of social inequalities on physical and mental health |
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Embodiment, psychophysiology, and mind-body interaction |
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Immigrant mental health |
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Wesley G. Skogan
Professor of Political Science
Associate Director, Institute for Policy Research
skogan@northwesternedu
biographical sketch
|
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Community
policing (CAPS) |
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Fear of crime |
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Citizen participation in community
crime prevention |
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Victim responses to crime |
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Information technology
in law enforcement (CLEAR) |
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Project CeaseFire |
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Bruce Spencer
Professor of Statistics
bspencer@northwesternedu
biographical sketch |
• |
Statistics
used in public policy and legal settings |
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Evaluation of the
census and other data programs |
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Demographic statistics |
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Design
and analysis of samples and other statistical studies |
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Sergio Urzúa
Assistant Professor of Economics
s-urzua@northwestermedu
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae
|
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Microeconometrics |
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Labor economics |
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Development |
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Celeste Watkins-Hayes
Assistant Professor of Sociology and African American Studies
c-watkins@northwesternedu
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae
|
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Urban poverty |
• |
Social policy |
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HIV/AIDS |
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Formal organizations: nonprofit and
government |
• |
Race, class, and gender |
|
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Burton Weisbrod
John Evans Professor of Economics
b-weisbrod@northwesternedu
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae |
• |
Comparative
economic behavior of for-profit, government, and private nonprofit
organizations |
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Commercialism of nonprofits |
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Economics of medical care |
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Performance measurement and rewards in the public and nonprofit sectors |
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