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  Dodie Norton Dodie Norton 
Samuel Deutsch Professor, School of Social Service Administration
Areas of expertise:
  • African-Americans: Early childhood development, high-risk African-American infants and children, longitudinal research methods with African-American children and their families
  • Children and Adolescents: Early environment related to social, cognitive, and temporal developmental outcomes and academic achievement of children in high-risk environments
  • Education: Academic achievement of children in high-risk environments


  Sydney Hans Sydney Hans 
Professor in School of Social Service Administration, as the Samuel Deutsch Professor, effective August 1, 2009
Areas of expertise:
  • Children and Adolescents: Adolescent parenting, impact of parental psychopathology and substance abuse on children, supportive interventions for families with infants and young children, infant attachment to parents
  • Family: Adolescent parenting, impact of parental psychopathology and substance abuse on children, parent-child relationships throughout the life course, supportive interventions for families with infants and young children, perinatal use of doulas
  • Gender: Women and violence, mothering and depression


  Waldo Johnson, Jr. Waldo Johnson, Jr. 
Associate Professor, School of Social Service Administration
Areas of expertise:
  • African-Americans: Non-resident fathers, health statuses of African-American males
  • Children and Adolescents: Male involvement in adolescent pregnancy and parenting, paternal involvement in fragile families, child welfare
  • Family: Male involvement in adolescent pregnancy and parenting, paternal involvement in fragile families, father's role


  Daniel le Grange Daniel le Grange 
Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Neuroscience; Director, Eating Disorders Program
Areas of expertise:
  • Adolescent eating disorders
  • Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa


  Matthew Stagner Matthew Stagner 
Executive Director and Senior Lecturer, Chapin Hall Center
Areas of expertise:
  • Child and Family Policy
  • Children and Adolescents
  • Child Welfare


  Dexter Voisin Dexter Voisin 
Associate Professor, School of Social Service Administration
Areas of expertise:
  • Adolescents and children: Urban African American and Latino youths
  • Violence Exposure: Consequences of being exposed to sexual, family, and community violence
  • Health: Teenage pregnancy, substance use and misuse, national and international HIV/AIDS prevention and interventions


  Harold Pollack Harold Pollack 
Associate Professor, School of Social Service Administration
Areas of expertise:
  • Children and Adolescents: Child health, infant mortality prevention, childhood obesity, SIDS, second-hand smoke and children, ER usage
  • Family: Drug abuse and dependence among welfare recipients and pregnant women, infant mortality prevention
  • Gender: Drug abuse and dependence among welfare recipients and pregnant women


  Susan Levine Susan Levine 
Professor in Psychology and in the College
Areas of expertise:
  • Mathematics: Early learning
  • Children and Adolescents: Education, impact of nurturing, schooling
  • Cognitive Development: special skills and language


  Robert Chaskin Robert Chaskin 
Associate Professor in the School of Social Service Administration; Research Fellow and Director of the International Programs, Chapin Hall Center for Children
Areas of expertise:
  • Children and Adolescents: Youth development
  • Community: Community organizing, community-based practice, community development, community social organization, comprehensive community initiatives
  • Family: Family support


  Susan Mayer Susan Mayer 
Professor in the Harris School of Public Policy Studies
Areas of expertise:
  • Social Policy: Child and Family Policy, Inequality and Poverty, Welfare Reform
  • Economics: Economic Hardship, Economic Segregation
  • Education: Education Policy


  Melissa Roderick Melissa Roderick 
Director, Chicago Postsecondary Transition Project and Co-Director, Consortium on Chicago School Research; Hermon Dunlap Smith Professor in the School of Social Service Administration
Areas of expertise:
  • Children and Adolescents: Youth, development, minority adolescent development, education and child welfare
  • Education: Education policy, school reform, community schools, testing, urban high schools, drop outs, retention, summer programs, child welfare and education

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