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

Visiting Faculty Member, University of Chicago Booth School of Business

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

Elaine Allensworth

Research Professor, University of Chicago Consortium on School Research

elainea@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Curricular effects on student achievement, organizational supports for school improvement, early warning systems for improving graduation rates, college readiness, school leadership, noncognitive factors

Course(s) in education research: Research Practice Partnerships in Education, Research in School Improvement

Lin Bian

Associate Professor, Department of Psychology

linbian@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Social cognition, stereotypes and biases, motivation, intergroup relations, sociomoral reasoning

Christina Brown

Assistant Professor, Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics

christinabrown@uchicago.edu

Marisa Casillas

Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Human Development

mcasillas@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

jhenly@uchicago.edu

Guanglei Hong

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

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