Staff
Julia R. Henly, PhD
Samuel Deutsch Professor; Deputy Dean for Research and Faculty Development
Dr. Henly (she/her/hers) is the Samuel Deutsch Professor in the University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice, where she is the Deputy Dean for Research and Faculty Development. Henly is a 2018 Society for Social Work and Research Fellow, a 2016 Interdisciplinary Research Leadership Program Fellow of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and a 2016 Distinguished Fellow of the William T. Grant Foundation. She is also a longstanding member of the steering committee of the US/DHHS Administration for Children and Families’ Child Care and Early Education Policy Research Consortium.
Karlyn Gehring, AM
Project Manager & Research Associate
Karlyn (she/her/hers) is a Project Manager and Research Associate in the University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice, where she supports Dr. Henly’s research team by managing data collection and analysis for studies about the impact of child care policies on child care providers in Illinois.
Sarah Jiyoon Kwon, PhD
Postdoctoral Associate
Dr. Kwon (she/her/hers) joined the University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice as a Postdoctoral Associate after completing her PhD in Social Work from the Columbia University School of Social Work. The overarching aim of Dr. Kwon’s research efforts is to understand family well-being and child development and their dynamic relationships with social policies.
Anne Blumenthal, PhD
Postdoctoral Associate
Research Assistants | Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
Current
Suh Kyung Lee
2nd-year PhD Student
Alize Hill
5th-year PhD Student
Stephanie Hong
5th-year PhD Student
Aida Pacheco-Applegate
1st-year PhD Student
Delaney Wallace
2nd-year Master’s Student
Recent
Autumn Hagstrom
Jessica Levinson
Jacqueline Lewittes
Hye-Min Jung
Linyun Fu
Eashaa Jumpala
Leah Telepan
Allison Zindl
Fady Shokry