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Faculty
Name |
Areas
of Research |
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Emma
Adam
Associate Professor of Human Development and Social Policy
ek-adam@northwestern.edu
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae
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Families
and stress |
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Stress and children’s behavioral, academic,
and emotional development |
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Effects of stress on health |
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Lori Beaman (on leave)
Assistant Professor of Economics
l-beaman(at)northwestern(dot)edu
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae
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Development and labor economics |
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Social networks and information dissemination |
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Impact of development policies on decision-making |
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Gender |
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P.
Lindsay Chase-Lansdale
Professor of Human Development and Social Policy
Director, Cells to Society (C2S):
The Center on Social Disparities and Health
lcl@northwestern.edu
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae |
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How social policy
issues affect family functioning and the development of children,
youth, and adults |
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Social
disparities and health and well-being |
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Two-generation programs to promote parents' and children's education |
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Anthony Chen
Associate Professor of Sociology
anthony-chen@northwestern.edu
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae
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American political development and public policy |
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Politics of social policy, civil rights, healthcare, and economic regulation |
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Affirmative action in college admissions |
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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
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Public
opinion and social policy |
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The politics of social policy |
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Public deliberation and deliberative
democracy |
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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 |
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School
reform |
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Contexts of adolescent development |
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Design and execution
of social experiments |
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Theories of evaluation practice |
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Micaela di Leonardo
Professor of Anthropology and Perfomance Studies
l-di@northwestern.edu
biographical sketch
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Global and US political economy |
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Urban studies |
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Gender and race inequalities |
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Street-level ethnography and public-cultural shifts |
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James
Druckman
Payson S. Wild Professor in Political Science
druckman@northwestern.edu
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae |
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Competitive
framing |
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Web use in elections |
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Strategic collection and use
of public opinion information |
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Alice Eagly
James Padilla Chair of Arts and Sciences
Professor of Psychology
eagly@northwestern.edu
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae |
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Psychology
of attitudes |
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Gender studies |
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Women and leadership |
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Gender gap |
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The content of stereotypes about social groups |
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David Figlio
Orrington Lunt Professor of Education and Social Policy
figlio@northwestern.edu
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae |
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School accountability |
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School vouchers |
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Education finance |
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Intergenerational issues in health and education |
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Teacher and principal quality |
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Welfare policy |
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Jeremy Freese
Professor and Chair of Sociology
jfreese(at)northwestern(dot)edu
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae |
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Sociology and evolutionary biology |
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Social implications of genetics and genetic-based technologies |
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Policies and informed choice (eg, Medicare prescription drug benefit) |
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Cognition and environ-mental contexts |
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Sociological aspects of science and technology, health and medicine |
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Quantitative and qualitative methodology |
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Daniel Galvin
Assistant Professor of Political Science
galvin@northwestern.edu
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae
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American presidency |
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Party politics |
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American political history |
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Jonathan Guryan
Associate Professor of Human Development and Social Policy
j-guryan@northwestern.edu
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae
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Labor market discrimination |
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Education and the labor market for teachers |
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Social interactions in the workplace |
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Laurel Harbridge
Assistant Professor of Political Science
l-harbridge@northwestern.edu
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae |
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American politics, congressional elections, public opinion and representation |
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Public policy (including budgetary policy) |
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Polarization and bipartisanship in Congress |
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Larry Hedges
Board of Trustees Professor of Statistics and Social
Policy
l-hedges@northwestern.edu
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae |
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Statistical
methods for meta-analysis |
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Evidence-based methodology for social
science research |
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Social distribution of academic achievement
in America |
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Educational policies and practices |
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Kirabo Jackson
Assistant Professor of Human Development and Social Policy
kirabo-jackson@northwestern.edu
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae |
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Labor economics |
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Public finance |
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Economics of education, in particular, teacher quality and effectiveness |
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Georgia Kernell
Assistant Professor of Political Science
gkernell@northwestern.edu
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae |
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Political parties and party organization |
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Methodology |
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Voting behavior |
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Representation |
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Christopher Kuzawa
Associate 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 |
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Social disparities and health |
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Male reproductive ecology and the psychobiology of social relationships |
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Dan A. Lewis
Professor of Human Development and Social Policy
dlewis@northwestern.edu
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae |
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Urban public
policies |
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Welfare reform |
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Public housing |
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Mental health issues |
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School decentralization and state politics |
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Charles F. Manski
Board of Trustees Professor in Economics
cfmanski@northwestern.edu
biographical sketch
curriculum
vitae |
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Econometrics
and statistics |
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Judgment and decision making: measuring consumer
confidence and expectations |
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Social policy analysis |
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Leslie McCall
Associate Professor of Sociology
l-mccall@northwestern.edu
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae |
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American public opinion about income inequality, economic opportunity, and social policy |
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Rising income inequality among women and families |
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Gender Inequality |
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Theories and methods of intersectionality |
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Thomas McDade
Professor of Anthropology
t-mcdade@northwestern.edu
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae |
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Stress
and health, with an emphasis on physiological mechanisms |
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Health
disparities |
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Biomarkers for population-based research |
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Social
and cultural contexts of stress and health |
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Rachel Davis Mersey
Assistant Professor of Journalism
rdmersey@northwestern.edu
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae |
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News audiences |
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Digital and mobile media |
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Newspapers |
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Information and democracy |
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Christine Percheski
Assistant Professor of Sociology
c-percheski@northwestern.edu
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae
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Women's employment |
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Family demography |
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income inequality |
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marriage and family formation |
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Monica Prasad (on leave)
Associate Professor of Sociology
e-mail Monica Prasad
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae |
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Neoliberalism |
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Taxation |
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History of American political economy |
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Lincoln Quillian
Associate Professor of Sociology
l-quillian@northwestern.edu
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae |
• |
Residential segregation |
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Simulation models of neighborhood formation |
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Neighborhood effects |
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Racial attitudes |
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Jennifer Richeson (on leave)
Professor of Psychology
jriches@northwestern.edu
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae |
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Dynamics
and conse-quences of interracial contact |
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Detecting and controlling
racial bias |
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Racial categorization and identity |
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Dorothy Roberts
Kirkland & Ellis Professor of Law
d-roberts@lawnorthwestern.edu
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae |
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Role of gender, race, and class in family law |
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Bioethics, and child welfare policy |
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Women and the
law |
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Critical race theory |
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Race and biotechnology |
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James Rosenbaum
Professor of Sociology, Education and Social Policy
j-rosenbaum@northwestern.edu
biographical sketch
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• |
High school-to-work
transition |
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Employers and community colleges |
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Gautreaux Program |
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Moving to Opportunity |
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Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach
Associate Professor of Human Development and Social Policy
dws@northwestern.edu
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae |
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Education policy |
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Child health |
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Anti-poverty policies |
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Economics of food consumption |
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Food stamps |
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Rebecca Seligman
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
r-seligman@northwestern.edu
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae
|
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Cultural influences on mental health and healing |
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Effects of social inequalities on physical and mental health |
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Embodiment, psychophysiology, and mind-body interaction |
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Immigrant mental health |
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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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Police organization and innovation |
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Community
policing |
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Impact of crime on communities and families |
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Community-based public security |
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Immigration, crime and homeland security |
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Bruce Spencer
Professor of Statistics
bspencer@northwestern.edu
biographical sketch |
• |
Statistics
used in public policy and legal settings |
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Evaluation of the
census and other data programs |
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Demographic statistics |
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Design
and analysis of samples and other statistical studies |
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Quincy Thomas Stewart
Associate Professor of Human Development and Social Policy
q-stewart@northwestern.edu
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae
|
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Racial and ethnic inequality |
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Formal demography |
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Health and mortality |
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Modeling social inequality |
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Lauren Wakschlag
Professor and Vice Chair for Scientific and Faculty Development, Department of Medical Social Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine
lauriew@northwestern.edu
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae
|
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Childhood mental health and early-life risk mechanisms |
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Measurement and modeling of disruptive behavior in childhood |
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Effects of cigarette exposure on children’s behavior “in context” (prenatal to adolescents) |
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Celeste Watkins-Hayes
Associate Professor of Sociology and African American Studies
c-watkins@northwestern.edu
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae
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Urban poverty |
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Social policy |
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HIV/AIDS |
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Formal organizations: nonprofit and
government |
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Race, class, and gender |
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Burton Weisbrod
John Evans Professor of Economics
b-weisbrod@northwestern.edu
biographical sketch
curriculum vitae |
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Defining, measuring, and rewarding “per-formance” in the public and nonprofit sectors |
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Theory and measure-ment of economic behavior by for-profit, public, and nonprofit organizations in mixed industries. |
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Economics of health and medical care |
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