2012-13 Faculty

IPR is home to an interdisciplinary community of scholars, who are at the forefront of policy-relevant social science research in their respective fields. A list of IPR fellows and associates can be found below:

Faculty Fellows
Faculty Associates

Faculty Fellows

IPR's 37 faculty fellows contribute to our core research areas. Links to their biographical and contact information, CVs, and research summaries can be found below.

Fellow		Research Areas
	Emma Adam Professor of Human Development and Social Policy	Families and stress Stress and children's behavioral, academic, and emotional development Effects of stress on health
	Lori Beaman Assistant Professor of Economics	Development and labor economics Social networks and information dissemination Impact of development policies on decision making Gender
	P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale Professor of Human Development and Social Policy	How social policy issues affect family functioning and the development of children, youth, and adults Social disparities and health and well-being Two-generation programs to promote parents’ and children’s education
	Anthony Chen Associate Professor of Sociology	American political development and public policy Politics of social policy, civil rights, healthcare, and economic regulation Affirmative action in college admissions
	Edith Chen Professor of Psychology	The biological and psychological mechanisms associated with poverty and poor health in children Asthma and socioeconomic status Resilience in youth—why some who confront adverse life events stay in good health
	Fay Lomax Cook Professor of Human Development and Social Policy (on leave)	Public opinion and social policy The politics of social policy Public deliberation and deliberative democracy Social Security
	Thomas D. Cook Joan and Sarepta Harrison Chair of Ethics and Justice \| Professor of Sociology, Psychology, and Education and Social Policy (on leave)	School reform Contexts of adolescent development Design and execution of social experiments Theories of evaluation practice
	James Druckman Payson S. Wild Professor of Political Science \| IPR Associate Director \| Chair of IPR’s Program on Politics, Institutions, and Public Policy	Competitive framing Web use in elections Strategic collection and use of public opinion information
	Alice Eagly James Padilla Chair of Arts and Sciences \| Professor of Psychology	Psychology of attitudes Gender studies Women and leadership Gender gap The content of stereotypes about social groups
	David Figlio Orrington Lunt Professor of Education and Social Policy and of Economics \| IPR Director	School accountability School vouchers Education finance Intergenerational issues in health and education Teacher and principal quality Welfare policy
	Jeremy Freese Professor of Sociology and Department Chair	Sociology and evolutionary biology Social implications of genetics/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
	Daniel Galvin Associate Professor of Political Science	American presidency Party politics American political history
	Jonathan Guryan Associate Professor of Human Development and Social Policy \| Chair of IPR’s Program on Education Policy	Labor market discrimination Education and the labor market for teachers Social interactions in the workplace
	Laurel Harbridge Assistant Professor of Political Science	American politics, congressional elections, public opinion, and representation Public policy (including budgetary policy) Polarization and bipartisanship in Congress
	Larry V. Hedges Board of Trustees Professor of Statistics and Education and Social Policy \| Professor of Psychology \| Director of the IPR Q-Center	Statistical methods for meta-analysis Evidence-based methodology for social science research Social distribution of academic achievement in America Educational policies and practices
	Kirabo Jackson Assistant Professor of Human Development and Social Policy	Labor economics Public finance Economics of education, in particular, teacher quality and effectiveness
	Georgia Kernell Assistant Professor of Political Science	Political parties and party organization Methodology Voting behavior Representation
	Christopher Kuzawa Associate Professor of Anthropology	Influence of intrauterine and early postnatal environments on development and long-term health Social disparities and health Male reproductive ecology and the psychobiology of social relationships
	Charles F. Manski Board of Trustees Professor in Economics	Econometrics and statistics Judgment and decision making: measuring consumer confidence and expectations Social policy analysis
	Leslie McCall Associate Professor of Sociology	American public opinion about income inequality, economic opportunity, and social policy Rising income inequality among women and families Gender inequality Theories and methods of intersectionality
	Thomas McDade Professor of Anthropology \| Director of Cells to Society (C2S): The Center on Social Disparities and Health at the Institute for Policy Research	Stress and health, with an emphasis on physiological mechanisms Health disparities Biomarkers for population-based research Social and cultural contexts of stress and health
	Rachel Davis Mersey Associate Professor of Journalism	News audiences Digital and mobile media Newspapers Information and democracy
	Greg Miller Professor of Psychology	Stress and Health Long-term biological consequences of child poverty Health consequences of caring for a family member with cancer
	Christine Percheski Assistant Professor of Sociology	Women’s employment Family demography Income inequality Marriage and family formation
	Monica Prasad Associate Professor of Sociology	Neoliberalism Taxation History of American political economy
	Lincoln Quillian Professor of Sociology \| Chair of IPR's Program on Urban Policy and Community Development (on leave)	Residential segregation Simulation models of neighborhood formation Neighborhood effects Racial attitudes
	Jennifer Richeson MacArthur Foundation Chair and Professor of Psychology and African American Studies	Dynamics and consequences of interracial contact Detecting and controlling racial bias Racial categorization and identity
	James Rosenbaum Professor of Sociology, and Education and Social Policy \| Chair of IPR’s Program on Poverty, Race, and Inequality	High-school-to-work transition Employers and community colleges Gautreaux Program Moving to Opportunity
	Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach Associate Professor of Human Development and Social Policy \| Chair of IPR’s Program on Child, Adolescent, and Family Studies	Education policy Child health Anti-poverty policies Economics of food consumption Food stamps
	Morton Schapiro Professor and President, Northwestern University	Economics of higher education College financing and student aid Measuring college success
	Rebecca Seligman Assistant Professor of Anthropology	Cultural influences on mental health and healing Effects of social inequalities on physical and mental health Embodiment, psychophysiology, and mind-body interaction Immigrant mental health
	Wesley G. Skogan Professor of Political Science	Police organization and innovation Community policing Impact of crime on communities and families Community-based public security Immigration, crime, and homeland security
	Bruce Spencer Professor of Statistics	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
	Quincy Thomas Stewart Associate Professor of Sociology	Racial and ethnic inequality Formal demography Health and mortality Modeling social inequality
	Lauren Wakschlag Professor and Vice Chair for Scientific and Faculty Development, Department of Medical Social Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine	Childhood mental health and early-life risk mechanisms Measurement and modeling of disruptive behavior in childhood Effects of cigarette exposure on children’s behavior “in context” (prenatal to adolescents)
	Celeste Watkins-Hayes Associate Professor of Sociology and African American Studies \| Chair, Department of African American Studies	Urban poverty Social policy HIV/AIDS Formal organizations: nonprofit and government Race, class, and gender
	Burton Weisbrod John Evans Professor of Economics \| Chair of IPR’s Program on Performance Measurement and Rewards	Defining, measuring, and rewarding “performance” in the public and nonprofit sectors Theory and measurement of economic behavior by for-profit, public, and nonprofit organizations Economics of health and medical care

Faculty Associates

IPR has 81 faculty associates, who are listed below with links to their biographical pages in their respective departments.

Associate	Department
	Henry Binford History
	Bernard Black Finance and Law
	Pablo Boczkowski Communication Studies
	Ann Borders Obstetrics and Gynecology
	Traci Burch Political Science
	Mercedes Carnethon Preventive Medicine
	Héctor Carrillo Sociology
	Jenifer Cartland Pediatrics
	David Cella Medical Social Sciences
	Carolyn Chen Sociology/Asian American Studies
	Joan Chiao Psychology
	Dennis Chong Adjunct Faculty
	Jeannette Colyvas Human Development and Social Policy/Learning Sciences
	Leemore Dafny (on leave) Management and Strategy
	David Dana Law
	Martha Daviglus Preventive Medicine
	Mesmin Destin Human Development and Social Policy/Psychology
	Shari Seidman Diamond Law
	Daniel Diermeier Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences
	Jack Doppelt Journalism
	David Dranove Management and Strategy
	Greg Duncan Adjunct Faculty
	Steven Epstein Sociology
	James Ettema Communication Studies
	Joseph Ferrie Economics
	Eli Finkel Psychology
	William Funk Anthropology
	Craig Garfield Pediatrics
	Loren Ghiglione Journalism
	Philip Greenland Preventive Medicine
	Shane Greenstein Management and Strategy
	John Hagan Sociology and Law
	Eszter Hargittai Communication Studies/Sociology
	Barton Hirsch Education and Social Policy
	Paul Hirsch Management and Organizations
	Jane Holl Pediatrics
	Simone Ispa-Landa Human Development and Social Policy
	Seema Jayachandran Economics
	Cynthia Kinnan Economics
	John Kretzmann Research Associate Professor
	Yanna Krupnikov Political Science
	Craig LaMay Journalism
	Carol Lee Human Development and Social Policy/Learning Sciences
	Donna Leff Journalism
	Dan Lewis Human Development and Social Policy
	Jennifer Light Communication Studies/Sociology
	Jelani Mandara Human Development and Social Policy
	Sarah Mangelsdorf Psychology and Dean of WCAS
	Maryann Mason Children's Memorial Research Center
	Michael Mazzeo Management and Strategy
	Therese McGuire Management and Strategy
	Brian Mustanski Medical Social Sciences
	Robert Nelson Sociology
	Daniel O'Keefe Communication Studies/Sociology
	Thomas Ogorzalek Political Science
	Ann Orloff Sociology
	Benjamin Page Political Science
	Mary Pattillo Sociology/African American Studies
	Frank Penedo Medical Social Sciences
	Penelope Peterson Dean of SESP
	Robert Porter Economics
	Yi Qian Marketing
	Eva Redei Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
	Michelle Reininger Adjunct Faculty
	Rachel Beatty Riedl Political Science
	Lauren Rivera Management and Organizations
	Andrew Roberts Political Science
	William Rogerson Economics
	Leonard Rubinowitz Law
	Max Schanzenbach Law
	Madeleine Shalowitz Institute for Health Services Research and Policy Studies
	Aaron Shaw Communication Studies/Sociology
	Carl Smith English
	Karrie Ann Snyder Sociology
	James Spillane Human Development, Social Policy and Learning Sciences
	Seth Stein Earth and Planetary Sciences
	Elizabeth Sweet Medical Social Sciences
	Linda Teplin Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
	Susan Thistle Sociology
	Brian Uzzi Management and Organizations
	Ellen Wartella Communication Studies
	Sandra Waxman Psychology
	Charles Whitaker Journalism
	Teresa Woodruff Obstetrics and Gynecology