Evelyn Asch 

Research Associate
Institute for Policy Research
Northwestern University
e-asch@northwestern.edu

Evelyn Asch is research associate for the project “Why Do Research Prizes Have Effects on Minorities’ Biomedical Research Careers?” that is supported by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences. She is coordinating this large study of the career outcomes of participants in the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS), under its principal investigator, IPR Fellow Larry Hedges, Board of Trustees Professor of Statistics and Social Policy.

Evelyn has been at IPR since 2003. She was the research coordinator for the Commercialism in Higher Education project, part of IPR’s research program in Philanthropy and Nonprofit Organizations, under the direction of Burton Weisbrod, John Evans Professor of Economics and IPR Fellow. She co-authored the resulting book with Weisbrod and Jeffrey Ballou, Mission and Money: Understanding the University (Cambridge University Press, 2008). She also previously worked with Hedges on the Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellowship Evaluation Study and as a researcher at the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness.

Evelyn has taught at Loyola University Chicago, DePaul University, and Shimer College. A skilled researcher and writer, she is the co-author of three casebooks in argument and research for college freshmen on the subjects of Just War Theory, civil disobedience, and immigration. She holds a PhD in the history of culture from the University of Chicago.