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  Cynthia Lindner Cynthia Lindner 
Director of Ministry Studies and Senior Lecturer in the Divinity School
Areas of expertise:
  • Biblical Studies
  • Ethics: Preaching and Pastoral Care
  • Psychological Studies


  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


  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


  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


  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


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


  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


  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


  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


  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 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


  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


  Ariel Kalil Ariel Kalil 
Professor in the Harris School of Public Policy Studies
Areas of expertise:
  • Child and Family Policy: Family Structure, Teenage Parenting
  • Economic Hardship: Inequality and Poverty, Job Loss and Unemployment, Welfare Reform
  • Psychology


  Bertram Cohler Bertram Cohler 
William Rainey Harper Professor in the College, Department of Psychology
Areas of expertise:
  • Sexual Identity
  • Personal Identity
  • Developmental psychopathology

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