Directory

Katherine Shah

Lab Manager

kbshah@uchicago.edu

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

Sheila Shankar, LSW

Doctoral Student

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sheilashankar@uchicago.edu

Areas of Expertise
Anti-Oppressive Social Work Practice
Asian Americans
Autoethnography
Criminal Legal Change
Culturally-sensitive Mental Health Care
Gender
Gender-based and Family Violence
Intersectionality
LGBTQIA+
Mental Health
Parenting and Families
Politicized Healing & Healing Justice
Professional culture, training and apprenticeship
Qualitative Research Methods
Social problems and social policy
Transformative Justice
Trauma-informed Clinical Practice
Violence and Trauma
Women with incarceration experiences

Ye Jin Sohn

Doctoral Student

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sohn@uchicago.edu

Areas of Expertise
Gender
Intersectionality
Mental Health
Race, Ethnicity, and Culture
Trauma-informed Clinical Practice
Violence and Trauma

Seongbo Son

Doctoral Student

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seongboson@uchicago.edu

Areas of Expertise
Aging
Community
Housing
Low-income Families
Poverty and Welfare Policy
Urban Inequality

Maggi Valdes Steib

Associate Director, Alumni Relations and Development

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msteib@uchicago.edu

Department
Alumni Relations and Development Office
Department:
Alumni Relations and Development Office

Office Location: 6011 S. Ingleside, 208

Brianna Suslovic

Doctoral Student

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bsuslovic@uchicago.edu

Areas of Expertise
Administrative Burden
Complex institutions
Criminal Legal Change
Criminal Legal Policy
Decarceration
Frontline Policy Implementation
Health Disparities
Intersectionality
Mass Incarceration
Mental Health
Policy Implementation
Poverty and Welfare Policy
Program Evaluation
Public Health
Public Policy
Qualitative Research Methods
Race, Ethnicity, and Culture
Reentry
Research and Evaluation Methodology
Risk and resilience
Social problems and social policy
Social Welfare
Social Work
Street Level Bureaucracy
Transformative Justice