Faculty

Eman Abdelhadi

Provost Postdoctoral Fellow, 2019-21; Assistant Professor, 2021-

Rosenwald 318B
Spring Quarter Office Hours: By appointment

abdelhadi@uchicago.edu

Eman Abdelhadi is a multi-method sociologist interested in religion, gender, identity, and demography. Using in-depth life history interviews, she is writing a book on how gender shapes second-generation American Muslims’ entry and exit into Muslim communities across the life course. She also uses quantitative methods to research ethno-religious and gendered cultural, political and economic outcomes.

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Terra Edwards

Assistant Professor, Comparative Human Development; Co-Director, Center for Gesture, Sign, and Language

terraedwards@uchicago.edu

Terra Edwards is a linguistic anthropologist whose research is concerned with the existential and environmental conditions that support language emergence. Since 2006, she has been pursuing this interest with DeafBlind communities in the U.S., where new ways of being DeafBlind are emerging alongside a new tactile language. Broadly speaking, her work asks: How do our ways of being in the world give rise to particular kinds of languages?

Susan Goldin-Meadow

Beardsley Ruml Distinguished Service Professor

Rosenwald 318F | Green 408
Academic Year 2020-21: On Leave

sgm@uchicago.edu

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.

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Guanglei Hong

Professor, Comparative Human Development;
Chair, Committee on Quantitative Methods in Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences;
Committee on Education

Rosenwald 325A

ghong@uchicago.edu

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.

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Susan Levine

Rebecca Anne Boylan Professor in Education and Society

Green 401

s-levine@uchicago.edu

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.

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Jill Mateo

Associate Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Co-chair, Education and Society

Rosenwald 305A
Spring Quarter Office Hours: By appointment

jmateo@uchicago.edu

Jill Mateo is an Associate Professor, as well as the Committee on Evolutionary Biology, the Institute for Mind and Biology and the College.

She and her students study developmental and biological mechanisms of adaptive behaviors that enhance survival and reproduction in species-typical environments. In particular, they investigate the reciprocal interactions among social, hormonal and genetic processes and how they differentially affect behavior depending on ecological and social contexts. They use comparative approaches in the field, in the lab and in other settings, studying human and non-human primates, other mammals (e.g. lions, dolphins, and ground-dwelling squirrels) and birds.

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Richard Shweder

Harold H. Swift Distinguished Service Professor

Rosenwald 305B
Winter and Spring Quarter 2021: On Leave - appointments can be scheduled via e-mail.

rshd@uchicago.edu

Richard A. Shweder is a cultural anthropologist and the Harold H. Swift Distinguished Service Professor of Human Development.

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