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IPR Faculty Experts

	Faculty Name	Areas of Research
	Emma K. Adam Associate Professor of Human Development and Social Policy ek-adam@northwestern.edu biographical sketch curriculum vitae	Families and stress; stress and children’s behavioral, academic, and emotional development; effects of stress on health.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	Christopher Kuzawa Assistant Professor of Anthropology kuzawa@northwestern.edu biographical sketch curriculum vitae	Influences of intrauterine and early postnatal environments on development and long-term health; social disparities and health.
	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.
	Nancy MacLean Professor of History and African American Studies nkm050@northwestern.edu biographical sketch curriculum vitae	History of social movements and public policy, particularly for African Americans, Mexican Americans, and women growth of the conservative movement, origins of school vouchers.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	Alberto Palloni Board of Trustees Professor of Sociology a-palloni@northwestern.edu biographical sketch curriculum vitae	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.
	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.
	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.
	Michelle Reininger Assistant Professor of Human Development, Social Policy, and Learning Sciences m-reininger@northwestern.edu biographical sketch curriculum vitae	Economics of education, teacher labor markets, the role of community colleges in teacher supply, and teacher retention and turnover.
	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.
	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).
	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.
	James Rosenbaum Professor of Human Development and Social Policy j-rosenbaum@northwestern.edu biographical sketch	High school-to-work transition; employers and community colleges; Gautreaux Program; Moving to Opportunity.
	Wesley G. Skogan Professor of Political Science Associate Director, Institute for Policy Research skogan@northwestern.edu biographical sketch	Community policing (CAPS); fear of crime; citizen participation in community crime prevention; victim responses to crime; information technology in law enforcement (CLEAR); Project CeaseFire.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	Sergio Urzúa Assistant Professor of Economics s-urzua@northwesterm.edu biographical sketch curriculum vitae	Microeconometrics, labor economics and development.
	Celeste Watkins-Hayes Assistant Professor of Sociology and African American Studies c-watkins@northwestern.edu biographical sketch curriculum vitae	Urban poverty; social policy; HIV/AIDS; formal organizations (nonprofit and government); and race, class, and gender.
	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.