Committee on Education 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
Interests: Education inequality, institutional interventions, education and health
Course(s) in education research: Education in Developing Contexts, Violence in the Early Years
Elaine Allensworth
Lewis-Sebring Director, Consortium for Chicago School Research, Urban Education Institute
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
Margaret Beale Spencer
Charles L. Grey Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in Comparative Human Development and the College
Interests: Resiliency, identity formation in youth, development of coping strategies over the course of life
Course(s) in education research: Development in Adolescence
Lin Bian
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology
Interests: Social cognition, stereotypes and biases, motivation, intergroup relations, sociomoral reasoning.
Michael Dinerstein
Assistant Professor, Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics
Interests: Public economics, industrial organization, economics of education
Course(s) in education research: Economics of Education
Eve 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
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
Interests: Development, risk, prevention of youth aggression and violence
Guanglei Hong
Professor, Department of Comparative Human Development
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
Tanika Island Childress
Acting Director, Urban Education Institute, Director and CEO, UChicago Charter School
Ariel Kalil
Daniel Levin Professor, Harris School of Public Policy
Interests: Impacts of childhood poverty, parental time investment in children’s development, child cognitive development, economic inequality
Course(s) in education research: Child Development and Public Policy
Micere Keels
Associate Professor, Department of Comparative Human Development
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 and Chair, Department of Psychology
Interests: origins of prejudice, ingroup/outgroup thinking, influence of language and accent in forming of social groups, cultural learning, food cognition and moral psychology.
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
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
Jens Ludwig
Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor, Harris School of Public Policy
Interests: Education inequality, institutional interventions, behavioral science and education, data science and education
Course(s) in Education Research: AI and public policy
Magne Mogstad
Gary Becker Professor, Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics
magne.mogstad@gmail.com
Interests: Labor economics; public economics; analysis of social mobility and inequality
Stephen Raudenbush
Lewis-Sebring Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Sociology and the Harris School of Public Policy
Chair, Committee on Education
Interests: Sociology of education, educational inequality, and quantitative methods
Course(s) in Education Research: Applications of Hierarchical Linear Methods, Statistical Methods of Research
Lisa Rosen
Associate Senior Instructional Professor and Associate Director of the Committee on Education
Interests: Education and social inequality, designing urban schools to reduce social inequality in educational achievement, the social context of urban schooling, and the interplay of schooling and identity.
Course(s) in Education Research: Schooling and Social Inequality, Schooling and Identity, Language, Culture, and Education
Shantá Robinson
Assistant Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
Interests: Education, Urban Schools, Race, Ethnicity, and Culture
Course(s) in education research: Cultural Studies in Education, Qualitative Inquiry and Research
Melissa Roderick
Herman Dunlap Smith Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
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
Dana Suskind
Professor, Departments of Surgery and Pediatrics
dsuskind@surgery.bsd.uchicago.edu
Interests: Language development, child development, cochlear ear implantation
Amanda Woodward
Dean, Division of the Social Sciences, and William S. Gray Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Psychology
Interests: Social cognition in infants and young children, cultural and community influences on children’s learning strategies, social-cognitive development.