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School of Education

development, education, cognition, human development, development of social judgments and action, the development of moral reasoning, children’s conceptions of authority, rules in school settings, culture and social development

School of Social Welfare

development, social development, social policy, community development, International social welfare, global poverty and inequality

Mahesh Srinivasan

Mahesh Srinivasan

Dept of Psychology

flexible and pragmatic uses of language, representation of abstract concepts, linguistic relativity, social cognitive development in different cultural contexts

Yan Long

Dept of Sociology

globalization, social movements, authoritarian politics, international development, organizations, public health, technology

Joseph J. Campos

Dept of Psychology

social-emotional development in infancy, emotional communication, perception of emotion, relation of motor development to cognitive and social and emotional development

Susan Stone smiling in office setting

Susan Irene Stone

School of Social Welfare

school-based psycho-social services, school-effects, archival data analysis, community development, organizational development, policy development

Michael Austin standing in office with yellow door

Michael J. Austin

School of Social Welfare

strategic planning, social welfare, social service management, organizational development

Jeremy Magruder

Jeremy Magruder

Dept of Agricultural & Resource Economics

development economics, agriculture in developing countries, labor markets, social networks in developing countries

Fei Xu

Dept of Psychology

cognitive development, language development, learning mechanisms, statistical learning and statistical inference, conceptual development, developmental psychology, word learning, physical reasoning, social cognition in infants and children, learning in infants and young children, computational models of cognitive development, Bayesian probabilistic models, cognitive development and AI models, psychology and philosophy

Ronald Dahl

School of Public Health

adolescence, brain development, behavioral and emotional health, pubertal maturation, affective neuroscience, social neuroscience

Haas School of Business

economic development, labor and organizational economics, health economics, wage determination, corporate social responsibility

Laura Enriquez in classroom setting

Laura J Enriquez

Dept of Sociology

development in Latin America, Latin American emigration to Europe, rural sociology, political sociology, social movements

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

microbiology, microbial development, molecular genetics, biochemistry, microbial social behaviors, bacterial communities / microbiomes, collective behaviors

Dept of Economics

Africa, education, development economics, human capital, health, ethnic divisions, social capital, civil conflict, war, pre-analysis plans, water

Julian Chun-Chung

Julian Chun-Chung Chow

School of Social Welfare

East Asian studies, social welfare, community practice and service delivery in urban poverty, ethnic, immigrant neighborhoods, community analysis and needs assessment, program planning and development, cultural competency services

Matthew Shutzer in outdoor setting

Matthew Shutzer

Dept of History

environmental history, modern South Asia, energy history, Science and Technology studies, histories of development and decolonization, empire, political economy, social theory

Emily Ozer

School of Public Health

participatory research, community-engaged research / scholarship, mental health, public health, health and social behavior, clinical and community psychology, adolescent development, school-based health promotion

Ann Swidler

Dept of Sociology

religion, culture, Africa, AIDS, political sociology, theory, development, NGOs, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research / scholarship, research practice partnership, community-based research partnerships, social justice research

Dept of Geography

geography as history of the present and as earthly/oceanic writing, social theory, political economy, development, agrarian studies, labor, racial/sexual capitalism, Black radical tradition, biopolitical struggle, oceanic studies, photography, South Asia, South Africa, Indian Ocean

Kurt C. Organista

Kurt C. Organista

School of Social Welfare

social welfare, race/ethnicity, HIV prevention, social behavior

Isha Ray

Dept of Energy & Resources Group

water and development, sanitation and development, gender and technology and society

School of Information

social informatics, digital transformation, knowledge, social and cultural studies

AnnaLee Saxenian

AnnaLee Saxenian

School of Information

innovation, information management, entrepreneurship, Silicon Valley, regional economic development, high skilled immigration, Asian development

Mark Wilson

School of Education

measurement, psychometrics, assessment, development of assessment resources, assessment systems

Sameer B. Srivastava in lecture setting

Sameer Srivastava

Haas School of Business

culture, cognition, social networks, social capital, organizational sociology, formal organizations, social influence