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Eman Abdelhadi

Assistant Professor; Director of Graduate Studies (DGS)

Interests:

religion; gender; identity; demography

Our society is increasingly composed of multiple subcultures—ethnic, religious and political. How do these subcultural communities reproduce themselve...

Marisa Casillas

Assistant Professor

Office: Rosenwald 318A

mcasillas@uchicago.edu

Interests:

psycholinguistics

Broadly speaking, I am interested in exploring how cognitive and social processes shape the ways in which we learn, perceive, and produce language. My...

Jennifer Cole

Professor

Office Hours: Mondays before noon, email to schedule

Office: Rosenwald 305D

jcole@uchicago.edu

Interests:

memory and forgetting; youth and generational change; gender, sexuality and transnational kinship; Africa; Madagascar;

I am a social and cultural anthropologist whose work examines how personal change and individual development shape, and are shaped by, broader politic...

Terra Edwards

Assistant Professor

Office Hours: See link in bio.

Office: Rosenwald 318G

terraedwards@uchicago.edu

Interests:

linguistic anthropology; language emergence; DeafBlind communities

Click here for a tactile impression of Dr. Edwards. Schedule an appointment with Dr. Edwards via Calendly on Tuesdays 11-11:30 AM or Thursdays 11:3...

Michele Friedner

Professor and Chair, Department of Comparative Human Development

Office Hours: Thursday 3-5pm & by appointment

Office: Rosenwald 318I

michelefriedner@uchicago.edu

Interests:

medical anthropology; deafness; disability; India; sensory ethnography; science and technology studies;

I am a medical anthropologist researching deaf and disabled peoples’ social, moral, religious, and economic practices, with a primary focus on deafnes...

Chiara Galli

Assistant Professor

Office Hours: Tuesdays 2-4pm, please book your slot here:  https://cgalli.youcanbook.me

Office: Rosenwald 318H

cgalli@uchicago.edu

Interests:

international migration; child and youth; ethnography; law and society;

I am sociologist interested in international migration, refugee studies, childhood, the life-course, and law and policy. I study the legal and politic...

Susan Goldin-Meadow

Beardsley Ruml Distinguished Service Professor

Office: Rosenwald 318F | Green 408

sgm@uchicago.edu

Interests:

language creation; gestures;

I received my Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. I am the founding and current Editor of Language Learning and Dev...

Guanglei Hong

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

Office: Rosenwald 305C

ghong@uchicago.edu

Interests:

causal inference theories; social and educational policies; child and youth development;

Guanglei Hong obtained a Master's degree in Applied Statistics and a Ph.D. in Education from the University of Michigan in 2004. She is the Inaugural ...

Micere Keels

Professor; CHD Advisor, EDSO

Office: Rosenwald 318J

micere@uchicago.edu

Interests:

racial-ethnic inequalities; educational outcomes

Her research focuses on understanding how sociodemographic characteristics (race-ethnicity and poverty, in particular) structure the supports and chal...

Susan Levine

Rebecca Anne Boylan Distinguished Service Professor in Education and Society

Office: Green 401

s-levine@uchicago.edu

Interests:

cognitive development; development and plasticity of spatial skills; early quantitative development; language development

Susan Levine is co-director of the Center for Early Childhood Research. She directs the Cognitive Development Lab. Her research interests include cogn...

Dario Maestripieri

Professor

Office Hours: by appointment through email

Office: Rosenwald 318D

Phone: (773) 834-4104

dario@uchicago.edu

Interests:

human behavior and mental life; biological and cultural evolution; history of ideas; creativity; knowledge formation;

I am an interdisciplinary behavioral scientist with a wide range of interests. I am interested in all aspects of human behavior and mental life a...

Jill Mateo

Associate Professor; Director of Undergraduate Studies (DUS)

Office Hours: by appointment; email to schedule

Office: Rosenwald 305A

jmateo@uchicago.edu

Interests:

biological mechanisms; adaptive behaviors; genetic processes;

Professor Mateo is an Associate Professor, as well as the Committee on Evolutionary Biology and the College. She received her doctorate in the field o...