Directory

Melissa Roderick, PhD

Hermon Dunlap Smith Professor; PI, Network for College Success
she/her/hers
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m-roderick@uchicago.edu

Office Location: BE02, WSSC 128

Areas of Expertise
Children and Adolescents
Education
Race, Ethnicity, and Culture
Urban

Yunuen Rodriguez, MA,MSW

Doctoral Student
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ikiltezi@uchicago.edu

Areas of Expertise
Anti-Oppressive Social Work Practice
Centering the Margins of Society
Children and Adolescents
Community
Global Social Work
Government and Policy
Health Disparities
Human Development
Race, Ethnicity, and Culture

Tina L. Rzepnicki, PhD

David & Mary Winton Green Professor Emerita
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t-rzepnicki@uchicago.edu

Office Location: WSSC 243

Areas of Expertise
Child Welfare and Child Protection
Children and Adolescents
Family
Social Work

Elizabeth Sanchez

Doctoral Student
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elizabeths1@uchicago.edu

Areas of Expertise
Critical Chicana Feminist Methods and Epistemology
Culturally-sensitive Mental Health Care
Immigration
Latine Mental Health
Latino-Americans
Parenting and Families
Undocumented Immigrant Family Well-being

Christina L. Scanlon, PhD

Executive Director, Development-in-Sociocultural-Context (DISC) Research Lab andResearch Associate
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clscanlon@uchicago.edu

Department
Development in Sociocultural Context (DISC) Lab
Department:
Development in Sociocultural Context (DISC) Lab

Office Location: 950 Building

Areas of Expertise
Child and Youth Development
Culture, parenting, identity development, and ethnic-racial socialization
Diversity, Opportunity, and Equity
Mental Health
Motivation, engagement, and youth development in context
Racial, SES, and gender disparities in education and health
Risk and resilience
School climate and racial disparities in school discipline
Sociocultural, affective, and cognitive processes in learning