Faculty

Marisa Casillas

Assistant Professor

Winter Quarter Office Hours: Mondays 4:30-5:30pm
Rosenwald 318A

mcasillas@uchicago.edu

Marisa Casillas is a psycholinguist interested in exploring how cognitive and social processes shape the ways in which people learn, perceive, and produce language (particularly the language of everyday conversations). She uses a combination of experimental- and observation-based methods to investigate these themes in multiple ethnolinguistic settings.

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Michele Friedner

Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies

Winter Quarter Office Hours: Tuesdays 3pm-5pm, or by appointment
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Rosenwald 318I

michelefriedner@uchicago.edu

Michele Friedner is a social and medical anthropologist whose work examines both the category of and experience of “deafness” and “disability,” particularly in urban India. She is interested in how political economic changes in India have created new opportunities and constraints for deaf and disabled people in the arenas of employment, education, politics, religion, and everyday life.

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Susan Goldin-Meadow

Chair, Department of Comparative Human Development
Beardsley Ruml Distinguished Service Professor

Rosenwald 318F | Green 408

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;
Committee on Quantitative Methods in Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences;
Committee on Education

Winter Quarter Office Hours: by appointment
Rosenwald 325A

ghong@uchicago.edu

Guanglei Hong has focused her research on developing causal inference theories and methods for understanding the impacts of large-scale societal changes and the impacts of social and educational policies and programs on child and youth development. She is the author of the book Causality in a Social World: Moderation, Mediation, and Spill-over and has developed multiple methodologies for drawing valid inferences about causal relationships, for investigating heterogeneity in human responses to external interventions, and for rigorously testing theories about the mechanisms through which such exposures generate impacts.

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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
Co-chair, Education and Society

Winter Quarter Office Hours: by appointment
Rosenwald 305A

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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