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Faculty
Name |
Areas
of Research |
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Emma
K. Adam
Associate Professor of Human Development and Social Policy
ek-adam@northwestern.edu
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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P.
Lindsay Chase-Lansdale
Professor of Human Development and Social Policy
Director, Cells to Society (C2S): Center on Social Disparities and Health
lcl@northwestern.edu
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae |
How social
issues affect family functioning and the development of children,
youth, and adults; children, families, and welfare reform; social
disparities and health. |
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Fay
Lomax Cook
Professor of Human Development and Social Policy
Director, Institute for Policy Research
flc943@northwestern.edu
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae |
Public
opinion and social policy; the politics of social policy; deliberative
democracy; 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@northwestern.edu
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae |
School
reform; contexts of adolescent development; design and execution
of social experiments; theories of evaluation practice. |
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Victoria M. DeFrancesco Soto
Assistant Professor of Political Science
vmds@northwestern.edu
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae |
American politics (political psychology, voting, mobilization, public opinion); race and ethnicity (Latino politics, immigration, studies of race, inter-minority relations); research methods. |
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James
Druckman
Associate Professor of Political Science
AT&T
Research Scholar
druckman@northwestern.edu
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae |
Competitive
framing; Web use in elections; strategic collection and use
of public opinion information; parliamentary coalitions in Eastern
Europe. |
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Greg
Duncan
Edwina S. Tarry Professor of Education and Social Policy
greg-duncan@northwestern.edu
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae |
Income
distribution; child poverty and welfare dependence; neighborhood
poverty and child development; welfare reform; New Hope Project;
Gautreaux Program. |
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Alice Eagly
James Padilla Chair in Arts and Sciences Professor of Psychology
eagly@northwestern.edu
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae |
Psychology
of attitudes; gender studies; women and leadership; gender gap;
the content of stereotypes about social groups. |
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Jeremy Freese
Professor of Sociology
jfreese "at" northwestern "dot" edu
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae |
Sociology and evolutionary biology; social implications of genetics and genetic-based technologies; policies and informed choice (e.g., Medicare prescription drug benefit); cognition and environmental contexts; sociological aspects of science and technology, health and medicine; quantitative and qualitative methodology; Internet use. |
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Larry V. Hedges
Board of Trustees Professor of Statistics and Social
Policy
l-hedges@northwestern.edu
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae |
Statistical
methods for meta-analysis; evidence-based methodology for social
science research; social distribution of academic achievement
in America; educational policies and practices. |
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Christopher Kuzawa
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
kuzawa@northwestern.edu
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae
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Influences
of intrauterine and early postnatal environments on development
and long-term health; social disparities and health. |
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Dan A. Lewis
Professor of Human Development and Social Policy
dlewis@northwestern.edu
biographical sketch
curriculum Vitae |
Urban public
policies; welfare reform; public housing; mental health issues;
school decentralization and state politics. |
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Nancy MacLean
Professor of History and African American Studies
nkm050@northwestern.edu
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae
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History
of social movements and public policy, particularly for African
Americans, Mexican Americans, and women growth of the conservative
movement, origins of school vouchers. |
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Charles F. Manski
Board of Trustees Professor of Economics
cfmanski@northwestern.edu
biographical sketch
curriculum
Vitae |
Econometrics
and statistics; judgment and decision making (measuring consumer
confidence, expectations); social policy analysis; illegal drug
policies. |
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Leslie McCall
Associate Professor of Sociology
AT&T Research Scholar
l-mccall@northwestern.edu
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae |
Social
inequality (class inequality among U.S. women, economic inequality,
and generally how racial, educational, and gender inequality
overlap), economic and political sociology, methods, and social
theory. |
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Thomas McDade
Associate Professor of Anthropology
t-mcdade@northwestern.edu
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae |
Stress
and health, with an emphasis on physiological mechanisms; health
disparities; biomarkers for population-based research; social
and cultural contexts of stress and health. |
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Therese McGuire
ConAgra Foods Research Professor in Strategic Management
therese-mcguire@northwestern.edu
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae |
State
and local public finance; fiscal decentralization; property
tax limitations; education finance; regional economic development. |
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Éva Nagypál
Assistant Professor of Economics
nagypal@northwestern.edu
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae |
Labor-market
dynamics (micro- and macro-level), determination of unemployment
and of firms' hiring behavior, impact of macroeconomic policies
on labor-market outcomes. |
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Ann Orloff
Professor of Sociology
a-orloff@northwestern.edu
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae |
Political
sociology; historical and comparative sociology; sociology of
gender; social (including feminist) theory. |
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Alberto Palloni
Board of Trustees Professor of Sociology
a-palloni@northwestern.edu
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae
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Health inequities, longevity and mortality, the aging process, estimates of forced migration and mortality (humanitarian emergencies), and modeling and effects of HIV/AIDS transmission in developing countries. |
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Monica Prasad (on leave)
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Email Monica Prasad
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae |
Political
decision making; politics of free markets; exceptionally progressive
nature of the U.S. tax code. |
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Lincoln Quillian
Associate Professor of Sociology
AT&T Research Scholar
l-quillian@northwestern.edu
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae |
Racial
stereotypes and racial inequality; spatial income segregation
and social outcomes. |
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Michelle Reininger
Assistant Professor of Human Development, Social
Policy,
and Learning Sciences
m-reininger@northwestern.edu
biographical
sketch
curriculum vitae
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Economics
of education, teacher labor markets, the role of community colleges
in teacher supply, and teacher retention and turnover. |
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Jennifer A. Richeson
Associate Professor of Psychology
jriches@northwestern.edu
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae |
Dynamics
and consequences of interracial contact; detecting and controlling
racial bias; racial categorization and identity. |
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Andrew Roberts
Assistant Professor of Political Science
aroberts@northwestern.edu
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae |
Comparative
politics; quality of democracies; politics of social policy
reforms (pension privatization, housing, and health-care reforms). |
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Dorothy Roberts
Kirkland and Ellis Professor of Law
d-roberts@law.northwestern.edu
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae |
Interplay
of gender, race, and class in legal issues concerning reproduction
and motherhood; constitutional law; women and the law; race
and child welfare policy and practices. |
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James Rosenbaum
Professor of Human Development and Social Policy
j-rosenbaum@northwestern.edu
biographical sketch
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High school-to-work
transition; employers and community colleges; Gautreaux Program;
Moving to Opportunity. |
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Wesley G. Skogan
Professor of Political Science
Associate Director, Institute for Policy Research
skogan@northwestern.edu
biographical sketch
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Community
policing (CAPS); fear of crime; citizen participation in community
crime prevention; victim responses to crime; information technology
in law enforcement (CLEAR); Project CeaseFire. |
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Bruce D. Spencer
Professor of Statistics
bspencer@northwestern.edu
biographical sketch |
Statistics
used in public policy and legal settings; evaluation of the
census and other data programs; demographic statistics; design
and analysis of samples and other statistical studies. |
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James Spillane
Professor of Human Development, Social Policy, and Learning
Sciences
j-spillane@northwestern.edu
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae |
Policy
implementation process at the state, school district, school,
and classroom levels; distributed leadership; principals’
professional development. |
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Kathleen Thelen
Payson S. Wild Professor in Political Science
thelen@northwestern.edu
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae |
Origins,
development, and effects of institutional arrangements that
define distinctive “varieties of capitalism” across
the developed democracies. |
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Sergio Urzúa
Assistant Professor of Economics
s-urzua@northwesterm.edu
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae
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Microeconometrics, labor economics and development. |
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Celeste Watkins-Hayes
Assistant Professor of Sociology and African American Studies
c-watkins@northwestern.edu
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae
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Urban poverty;
social policy; HIV/AIDS; formal organizations (nonprofit and
government); and race, class, and gender. |
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Burton A. Weisbrod
John Evans Professor of Economics
b-weisbrod@northwestern.edu
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae |
Comparative
economic behavior of for-profit, government, and private nonprofit
organizations; commercialism of nonprofits. |