Faculty Directory

Harold Pollack, PhD

Helen Ross Distinguished Service Professor; Associated Faculty, Public Health Sciences

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haroldp@uchicago.edu

773.702.4414

Office Location: BW-18

Areas of Expertise
Child Welfare and Child Protection
Children and Adolescents
Criminal Justice Policy
Government and Policy
Health
Poverty and Income
Public Health
Substance Abuse
Violence and Trauma
Welfare

Melissa Roderick, PhD

Hermon Dunlap Smith Professor; PI, Network for College Success

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m-roderick@uchicago.edu

773.702.1171

Office Location: BE02, WSSC 128

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

Margaret M. C. Thomas, PhD

Assistant Professor

Margaret Thomas

mmct@uchicago.edu

773.834.3225

Office Location: W014

Areas of Expertise
Child Welfare and Child Protection
Child Welfare System
Children and Adolescents
Family
Food Insecurity
Guaranteed Income
LGBTQIA+
Material Hardship
Poverty
Social Welfare Policy
Social Work

Jiali Wang

Post Doctoral Scholar

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jialiwang07@uchicago.edu

Areas of Expertise
Adolescent Mental Health and Development Disorders
Community-based Services
Intervention Programs
Program Evaluation
Public Health
Rural Older Adults
Social Determinants
Suicide

Ming-Te Wang, Ed.D.

Professor

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mtwang@uchicago.edu

773.702.1219

Areas of Expertise
Culture, parenting, identity development, and ethnic-racial socialization
Diversity, Opportunity, and Equity
Longitudinal Data Analysis
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
School to prison pipeline
School-based psychosocial intervention
Social and emotional development
Sociocultural, affective, and cognitive processes in learning
STEM learning and group disparities

Rita Xiaochen Hu, PhD

Provost's Postdoctoral Fellow

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rxhu@uchicago.edu

7025290

Office Location: E013

Areas of Expertise
Aging
Gerontology
Human Development
Lifespan Development
Psychology
Social Relationships