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. 

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Susan Levine



Rebecca Ann Boylan Professor in Education and Society, Department of Psychology
Interests:

Cognitive development, development and plasticity of spatial skills, early quantitative development, language development and functional plasticity in children with early brain injury

Course(s) in education research: Advanced Seminar in Developmental Psychology

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John List



Kenneth C. Griffin Distinguished Service Professor, Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics
Interests:

Experimental economics, usage of behavioral economics to increase parental engagement in early childhood education, youth violence, economics of charity, environmental economics, experiments in firms, scalability and role it plays in transforming the education space

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Jens Ludwig



Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor, Harris School of Public Policy
jludwig@uchicago.edu
Interests:

Education inequality, institutional interventions, behavioral science and education, data science and education

Course(s) in Education Research: AI and public policy

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Magne Mogstad



Gary S. Becker Professor, Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics
magne.mogstad@gmail.com
Interests:

Interests: Labor economics; public economics; analysis of social mobility and inequality

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Stephen Raudenbush



Lewis-Sebring Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Sociology and the Harris School of Public Policy; IES Pre-Doctoral Training Program Director, Committee on Education
sraudenb@uchicago.edu
Interests:

Sociology of education, educational inequality, and quantitative methods

Course(s) in Education Research: Applications of Hierarchical Linear Methods, Statistical Methods of Research

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Melissa Roderick



Herman Dunlap Smith Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
m-roderick@uchicago.edu
Interests:

Urban school reform, high school reform, high-stakes testing, minority adolescent development, school transitions

Course(s) in education research: Data for Policy Analysis and Management, Innovations in Data Use

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Onnie Rogers



Associate Professor, Comparative Human Development; Principal Investigator, DICE Lab
lorogers@uchicago.edu
Interests:

Identity, developmental psychology

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Dana Suskind



Professor, Departments of Surgery and Pediatrics
dsuskind@surgery.bsd.uchicago.edu
Interests:

Language development, child development, cochlear ear implantation

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Lesley Turner



Associate Professor, Harris School of Public Policy; Interim Chair, Committee on Education
ljturner@uchicago.edu
Interests:

Public Economics, Economics of Education, Labor Economics

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Ming-Te Wang



Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
mtwang@uchicago.edu
Interests:

Motivation and Engagement, Racial Socialization and Discrimination, School Climate and Racial Disparities in School Discipline

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Geoffrey Wodtke



Professor in Sociology; Associate Director, Stone Center for Research on Wealth Inequality and Mobility
wodtke@uchicago.edu
Interests:

Inequality, poverty, and social mobility; social psychology; urban sociology; causal inference