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Margaret Beale Spencer is the Marshall Field IV Professor of Urban Education, and is an alumna of the Committee on Human Development. Before returning to Chicago, she was Director of the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Health Achievement Neighborhood Growth and Ethnic Studies (CHANGES), and also guided as its director the W. E. B. Du Bois Collective Research Institute.
Jennifer Cole's work addresses the substantive topics of memory and forgetting, youth and generational change, gender, sexuality and transnational kinship. Her research focuses on Africa - specifically the island of Madagascar - and the legacy of Madagascar's colonial and now post-colonial encounter with France.
Susan Goldin-Meadow is the Beardsley Ruml Distinguished Service Professor. Her work explores language creation in deaf children in the US, China, Turkey and, most recently, Nicaragua, and also the impact that our bodies––in particular, the gestures we produce when we talk––have on thinking and learning. She is co-director of the new Center for Gesture, Sign and Language at the University.
William Goldstein's research concerns aspects of judgment and decision making that emphasize the psychology of preference, uncertainty, and the resolution of conflicting goals.
Read more about William Goldstein on his Department of Psychology profile page.
Sydney Hans is a Professor at the School of Social Service Administration. Her research seeks to understand how biological and social factors interact in contributing to risk and resilience in human development.
Guanglei Hong has focused her research on developing causal inference theories and methods for evaluating educational and social policies and programs in multi-level, longitudinal settings.
Micere Keels examines how racial-ethnic inequalities in neighborhood, school, and family contexts are associated with unequal educational outcomes.
Susan Levine is co-director of the Center for Early Childhood Research and serves as the chair of the Psychology Department. She directs the Cognitive Development Lab. Her research interests include cognitive development, development and plasticity of spatial skills, early quantitative development, and language development and functional plasticity in children with early brain injuries.
Read more about Susan Levine on her Department of Psychology profile page.
John Lucy's research focuses on the impact of grammatical diversity on thought, the development of language and thought in middle childhood, and the role of metalinguistic capabilities in human social interaction.
On leave 2017.
Dario Maestripieri is a Professor in Comparative Human Development and is also affiliated with the Committee on Evolutionary Biology, The Committee on Neurobiology, the Institute for Mind and Biology, the Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience, the Center for Human Potential and Public Policy, the Center for Health and the Social Sciences, the Grossman Institute for Neuroscience, Quantitative Biology, and Human Behavior, and the Stevanovich Institute on the Formation of Knowledge.
His current main interests are, a) evolution of human behavior and its biological regulation, b) 20th century European literature.
Jill Mateo is an Associate Professor, as well as the Committee on Evolutionary Biology, the Institute for Mind and Biology and the College.
On Leave 2016-17 academic year.
Martha K. McClintock is the David Lee Shillinglaw Distinguished Service Professor in Psychology, the Founder of the Institute for Mind and Biology, and Co-Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Health Disparities Research (CIHDR). Dr. McClintock's current research focuses on the interaction between behavior and reproductive endocrinology and immunology.
Read more about Martha McClintock at her Institute for Mind and Biology profile page.
Anna S. Mueller is a sociologist whose research examines how social relationships and social contexts shape adolescent health and wellbeing over the transition to adulthood. She is also interested in how schools, as social organizations, shape social relationships and opportunities to learn, thereby affecting the life chances of children. Her conceptual research interests are matched by her methodological interests in social network analysis, multi-level modeling, and in-depth qualitative case studies of adolescent societies.
Eugene Raikhel is a cultural and medical anthropologist with interests encompassing the anthropology of science, biomedicine and psychiatry; addiction and its treatment; suggestion and healing; and post-socialist transformations in Eurasia.
Lindsey Richland investigates children's memory and analytical reasoning development. Much of her work explores children's emergent ability to think about relationships and make inferences such as through metaphor and analogy.
Richard A. Shweder is a cultural anthropologist and the Harold H. Swift Distinguished Service Professor of Human Development.
On leave 2017.
