Faculty

Below is a list of faculty members at the University of Chicago affiliated with the Committee on Education, organized by departmental affiliation. Click on any of the names to view a more extensive biography and links to recent publications.

Anjali Adukia

Assistant Professor, Harris School of Public Policy

adukia@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Education inequality, institutional interventions, education and health

Course(s) in education research: Education in Developing Contexts, Violence in the Early Years

Margaret Beale Spencer

Charles L. Grey Distinguished Service Professor and Marshall Field IV Professor of Urban Education, Emerita, Department of Comparative Human Development

mbspencer@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Resiliency, identity formation in youth, development of coping strategies over the course of life

Course(s) in education research: Development in Adolescence

Christina Brown

Assistant Professor, Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics

christinabrown@uchicago.edu

Marisa Casillas

Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Human Development

christinabrown@uchicago.edu

Interests:

First language development, cross-cultural comparison, human conversation, & language processing

Course(s) in education research: Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Language Development, Blooming Buzzing Confusion, Methods in Child Development Research, The Development of Communicative Competence

Eve L. Ewing

Associate Professor Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity

Interests:

School closings, race and racism, urban K–12 public schools, public sociology, black feminism, qualitative research methods

Course(s) in education research: Race in American Public Schools

Susan Goldin-Meadow

Beardsley Ruml Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Psychology and Comparative Human Development

sgm@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Language development and creation, gesture’s role in communicating, thinking, and learning

Course(s) in education research: Seminar in Language Development, Research Topics in Gesture and Learning

Deborah Gorman-Smith

Dean, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice, and Emily Klein Gidwitz Professor

debgs@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Development, risk, prevention of youth aggression and violence

Julia R. Henly, PhD

Pronouns:she/her/hers

Samuel Deutsch Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, an Practice

Guanglei Hong

Professor, Department of Comparative Human Development; Director, Committee on Education (on leave)

ghong@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Quantitative methods, social causation, educational policy effectiveness

Course(s) in education research: Applied Statistics in Human Development Research, Mediation, Moderation, and Spillover Effects, Introduction to Causal Inference

Ariel Kalil

Daniel Levin Professor, Harris School of Public Policy

akalil@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Impacts of economic conditions and parental time investment on early childhood development; young children’s cognition and curiosity; economic inequality and public policy; field experiments; technology-based interventions for parents and young children

Course(s) in education research: Child Development and Public Policy

Micere Keels

Associate Professor, Department of Comparative Human Development

micere@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Trauma-responsive educational practices, effects of gentrification on public schools, effects of relocation, experiences of children in immigrant families, race-ethnicity, inequality, post-secondary persistence of Black and Latino students, integration of quantitative and qualitative methods

Course(s) in education research: Inequality in Urban Spaces

Katherine Kinzler

Professor, Department of Psychology; Vice Provost

kinzler@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Origins of prejudice, ingroup/outgroup thinking, influence of language and accent in forming of social groups, cultural learning, food cognition and moral psychology