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IPR Graduate Research Assistants 2009-10

  Student Name Areas of Research Interest
Elisabeth Anderson

Elisabeth Anderson
Sociology

A6C4V6@u.northwestern.edu

IPR Adviser: Dr. Monica Prasad

 

Sara Bernstein
Human Development and Social Policy

sara-bernstein@northwestern.edu

IPR Adviser: Dr. P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale

Program coordination; evaluation; availability of quality childcare for low-income families.
Toby Bolsen

Toby Bolsen
Political Science

tobybolsen2008@u.northwestern.edu

IPR Adviser: Dr. Fay Lomax Cook

American national politics (political behavior, public opinion, mass communications, and U.S. energy policy).
Amelia Branigan

Amelia Branigan
Human Development and Social Policy

AmeliaBranigan2008@u.northwestern.edu

IPR Adviser: Dr. Jeremy Freese

 
Maureen Craig

Maureen Craig
Psychology

maureencraig2013@u.northwestern.edu

IPR Adviser: Dr. Jennifer Richeson

Intergroup relations, stereotyping and prejudice, social cognition.

Meredith Bintz Czaplewski
Political Science

m.czaplewski@u.northwestern.edu

IPR Adviser: Dr. Fay Lomax Cook

Political behavior and public opinion, political psychology, attitudes, political discussion.

Lori Delale-O'Connor
Sociology

l-delaleo@northwestern.edu

IPR Adviser: Dr. Thomas D. Cook

School choice; uses of cultural and social capital to create educational opportunities; impact of multiple contexts on adolescent welfare and development; and social stratification.
Brian Falb

Brian Falb
Political Science

brianrf@u.northwestern.edu

IPR Adviser: Dr. Victoria DeFrancesco Soto

Political and voting behavior, public opinion, elections, and political communication.
Jia-Young Michael Fu

Jia-Young Michael Fu
Economics

JiaYoungFu2012@u.northwestern.edu

IPR Adviser: Dr. Charles F. Manski

Analysis of treatment response, inequality, semi-nonparametric estimation, models of social interactions.

Lisbeth Goble
Human Development and Social Policy

l-goble@northwestern.edu

IPR Adviser: Dr. James Rosenbaum

Education policy and evaluation; K-12 urban education; teacher effects; quantitative and qualitative methods in education; and adult literacy.
Kelly Hallberg

Kelly Hallberg
Human Development and Social Policy

KellyHallberg2013@u.northwestern.edu

IPR Advisers: Dr. Thomas Cook and Dr. James Rosenbaum

Evaluating the effectiveness of education policies and interventions, research methodology, the transition from high school to college.

Cassandra Hart
Human Development and Social Policy

cassandra-hart@northwestern.edu

IPR Adviser: Dr. David Figlio

School competition policies, school accountability, education and disadvantaged youth, program evaluation.
Aryeh Jacobsohn

Aryeh Jacobsohn
Anthropology

aryeh@u.northwestern.edu

IPR Adviser: Dr. Thomas McDade

Medical anthropology, mental health, stress, social network analysis.
Thomas Leeper

Thomas Leeper
Political Science

thosjleeper@gmail.com

IPR Adviser: Dr. James Druckman

Public opinion; measurement of citizen competence; media effects on political attitudes and behavior.
Christina LiCalsi LaBelle

Christina LiCalsi LaBelle
Human Development and Social Policy

ChristinaLicalsi2013@u.northwestern.edu

IPR Adviser: Dr. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale

Effects of young child-environment interactions on educational, health, and mental health outcomes. Impact of social policies and programs on child development contexts.

Constance Lindsay
Human Development and Social Policy

c-lindsay@northwestern.edu
curriculum vitae

IPR Adviser: Dr. David Figlio

Racial gaps in education (achievement/test scores); racial identity; the impact of publicly supported programs on adolescents, lives, and well-being.

Brandy Lipton
Economics

b-lipton@northwestern.edu

IPR Adviser: Dr. Burton Weisbrod

Labor, search, experimental search.

Chelsea McKinney
Human Development and Social Policy

chelseamckinney@northwestern.edu

IPR Adviser: Dr. P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale

Social determinants of health disparities; effect of health conditions on child development.
Emily Mendenhall

Emily Mendenhall
Medical Anthropology

e-mendenhall@northwestern.edu

IPR Adviser: Dr. Rebecca Seligman

Global health, narrative, diabetes and depression
in Chicago, gender, structural violence.
Molly Metzger

Molly Metzger
Human Development and Social Policy

m-metzger@northwestern.edu
curriculum vitae

IPR Adviser: Dr. Dan Lewis

Economic segregation and social inequality, the suburbanization of poverty, early childhood
interventions.

Michelle Naffziger
Sociology

m-naffziger@northwestern.edu
curriculum vitae

IPR Adviser: Dr. James Rosenbaum

Sociology of Education; Inequality; and Culture in education, with a special focus on the role that culture plays in college access for disadvantaged students.
Cassidy Puckett

Cassidy Puckett
Sociology

cassidy@u.northwestern.edu

IPR Adviser: Dr. Jeremy Freese

Methodological issues (construct and measurement validity); digital inequality including individual and social determinants of technological fluency and the effect of technological fluency on social inequality.
James Pustejovsky

James Pustejovsky
Statistics

JamesPustejovsky2013@u.northwestern.edu

IPR Adviser: Dr. Larry V. Hedges

Experimental design, educational policy, evaluation, social network measurement.
Katie Rotella

Katie Rotella
Psychology

katierotella2013@u.northwestern.edu

IPR Adviser: Dr. Jennifer Richeson

Intergroup trust; stereotyping and prejudice; neuroscience of trust and intergroup relations.

Clarissa Simon
Human Development and Social Policy

c-simon@northwestern.edu

IPR Adviser: Dr. Emma Adam

Psychological and physiological stress during the transition to parenthood; the biology of new motherhood and fatherhood.

Jennifer Stephan
Human Development and Social Policy

j-stephan@northwestern.edu

IPR Adviser: Dr. James Rosenbaum

Educational policy; factors promoting successful transitions and outcomes in postsecondary education; early childhood interventions and policy; research methodology.

Lindsay Till
Human Development and Social Policy

ltill@u.northwestern.edu

IPR Advisers: Dr. Emma Adam and Dr. Thomas McDade

Positive well-being; social determinants of health.

Beth Tipton
Statistics

e-tipton@northwestern.edu

curriculum vitae

IPR Adviser: Dr. Larry V. Hedges

Educational policy; education statistics.
Greg Veramendi

Gregory Veramendi
Economics

GregoryVeramendi2010@u.northwestern.edu

IPR Adviser: Dr. Burton Weisbrod

Inequality, human capital, returns to education, early childhood
development, wage dynamics.

Vivian Wong
Human Development and Social Policy

vivianw@northwestern.edu
curriculum vitae

IPR Adviser: Dr. Thomas D. Cook

Within-study comparisons of experimental and quasi-experimental designs; regression discontinuity and abbreviated interrupted time series designs; evaluation of state pre-K programs.
Michelle Yin

Michelle Yin
Visiting Graduate Student, University of Florida

lu-yin@northwestern.edu

IPR Adviser: Dr. David Figlio

Education economics, health economics, and applied Econometrics.

Kai Zeng
Political Science

kzeng@northwestern.edu
curriculum vitae

IPR Adviser: Dr. Wesley G. Skogan

International relations; international and comparative political economy; formal modeling and statistical methods; East Asian politics and economy.