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Officers and Administration

Officers of the University

David M. Rubenstein, Chairman of the Board of Trustees
Paul Alivisatos, President of the University
Katherine Baicker, Provost

Administration of the School

Deborah Gorman-Smith, Dean
Yoonsun Choi, Deputy Dean for Curriculum
Julia R. Henly, Deputy Dean for Research and Faculty Development
Esty Gur, Senior Associate Dean for Administration
Tonishea M. Jackson, Associate Dean of Marketing & Communications
Nan Pozios, Associate Dean for Advancement
Kristen Reid Salomon, Dean of Students, Diversity and Inclusion
Catherine Sanders, Chief of Staff
Adrian Talbott, Associate Dean for Civic Engagement
Matt Epperson, Chair, Crown Family School Doctoral Program
Jennifer Mosley, Editor, "Social Service Review"
Alan Zarychta, Director of the Susan and Richard Kiphart Center for Global Health and Social Development
Ashley Brown, Assistant Dean of Students for the PhD Program
Daniel Dinkins, Assistant Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid
Kourtney Ross, Assistant Dean of Students
C. Gidget Ambuehl-Armstrong, HR/Office Manager
Meredith Davis, Director of Marketing & Communications
Richard J. Kass, Director of Information Technologies and Facilities
Susan Klumpner , Director of Field Education
Johnny Lassalle, Director of Career and Leadership Development
Mel Lamagna, Senior Associate Director of the Master's Program
Ronald P. Martin, Director of Admissions
Lara Poeppelmeier, Director of Sponsored Activity
R. Erika Schafer, Director of Human Resources
Paula Tsurutani, Senior Strategic Writer
Holiday Vega, Health and Social Services Librarian

Officers of Instruction

Kate Attea, Senior Lecturer
Carolyn Barnes, PhD., Associate Professor
Robin Bartram, PhD., Associate Professor
Alida M. Bouris, Ph.D., Associate Professor; Co-Director, Chicago Center for HIV Elimination; Co-Director, Behavioral, Social, and Implementation Sciences Core of the Third Coast Center for AIDS Research; Fellow, Center for Health Administration Studies; Faculty Affiliate, Center for Interdisciplinary Inquiry and Innovation in Sexual and Reproductive Health and Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality and Center for Human Potential and Public Policy
E. Summerson Carr, Ph.D., Hermon Dunlap Professor; Joint Appointment in both the Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice and the Division of the Social Sciences, Anthropology and Social Sciences in the College; Faculty Affiliate, Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality,
Yoonsun Choi, Ph.D., Moses J. Sylvia Professor; Deputy Dean for Curriculum
Jessica Darrow, Ph.D., Associate Instructional Professor;
Matthew W. Epperson, Ph.D., Associate Professor; Fellow, Center for Health Administration Studies; Faculty Affiliate, Faculty Director, Smart Decarceration Project
Gina Fedock, Ph.D., Associate Professor; Faculty Affiliate, Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality,
Philip Garboden, PhD., Associate Professor
Angela García, Ph.D., Associate Professor; Fellow: Center for Health Administration Studies (CHAS) and Center for International Social Science Research; Faculty Affiliate: Center for Latin American Studies; Faculty Affiliate: Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture; Faculty Affiliate: Katz Center for Mexican Studies; Associate: Population Research Center; Associate: Department of Sociology; on leave for the 2023-24 academic year.
Janelle R. Goodwill, Ph.D., Neubauer Family Assistant Professor
Deborah Gorman-Smith, Ph.D., Dean and Emily Klein Gidwitz Professor; Chief Strategist for Community Engagement and Partnerships
Aaron Gottlieb, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Colleen M. Grogan, Ph.D., Deborah R. and Edgar D. Jannotta Professor; Faculty Director for Climate Heath and Society (CHAS), Faculty Director for Graduate Program in Health Policy & Administration (GPHAP)
Julia R. Henly, Ph.D., Samuel Deutsch Professor;Deputy Dean for Research and Faculty Development; Principal Investigator, Illinois/New York Child Care Research Partnership Study; Faculty Affiliate, Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality; Co-Director, Employment Instability, Family Well-being, and Social Policy Network
Aimee Hilado, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
E. Paul Holmes, Psy.D., Senior Lecturer; Director, Center for Contextual Behavioral Practices
Rita X. Hu, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Leyla Ismayilova, Ph.D., Associate Professor; Faculty Steering Committee Member, Center for Global Health; Fellow, Center for Health Administration Studies; Faculty, Graduate Program in Health Administration and Policy
Waldo E. Johnson, Jr., Ph.D., Professor;
Zhiying Ma, Ph.D., Associate Professor; Faculty Affiliate: Center for East Asian Studies; Faculty Affiliate: Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality
Nicole P. Marwell, Ph.D., Professor;Associated Faculty, Department of Sociology;
Darcey Merritt, PhD., Professor
Lisa Lynelle Moore, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer; Director of the Master of Arts in Social Work, Social Policy, and Social Administration (SW) Program, Faculty Affiliate Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality and Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture
Abigail Palmer Molina, Ph.D., Neubauer Family Assistant Professor
Jennifer E. Mosley, Ph.D., Professor; Faculty Affiliate, Community Accelerator
Shipra Parikh, Ph.D., Associate Instructional Professor
Harold A. Pollack, Ph.D., Helen Ross Distinguished Service Professor; Affiliate Professor, Biological Sciences Collegiate Division and Department of Public Health Sciences; Affiliated Scholar, California Youth Transitions to Adulthood Study; Co-Director: Center for Health Administration Studies (CHAS); Faculty Affiliate, Center for Health and the Social Sciences; Faculty Advisor: Graduate Program in Health Administration and Policy; Research Associate, Population Research Center; Faculty Co-Director, University of Chicago Crime Lab and University of Chicago Health Lab
Gina Miranda Samuels, Ph.D., Professor; Fellow, Center for Health Administration Studies (CHAS); Director, Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture
S. Simmons, Ph.D., Associate Instructional Professor
William Sites, Ph.D., Associate Professor; Faculty Affiliate, Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality; on leave for the 2023-24 academic year.
Margaret M.C.Thomas, PhD., Assistant Professor
Ming-Te Wang, PhD., Kersten Professor in the Wallman Society of Fellows
Miwa Yasui, Ph.D., Associate Professor; Fellow, Center for Health Administration Studies; Faculty Affiliate, Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture
Alan Zarychta, Ph.D., Associate Professor; Fellow, Center for Health Administration Studies; Affiliated Faculty, Center for Latin American Studies

Faculty Emeriti

Sharon B. Berlin, Ph.D., Helen Ross Professor Emerita
William Borden, Ph.D., Lecturer Emeritus
Evelyn Brodkin, Ph.D., Associate Professor Emerita
Mark E. Courtney, Ph.D., Samuel Deutsch Professor Emeritus
Robert J. Chaskin, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus; McCormick Foundation Professor
Irene Elkin, Ph.D., Professor Emerita
Sydney L. Hans, Ph.D., Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor Emerita, Department of Comparative Human Dev
Susan J. Lambert, Ph.D., Professor Emerita
Jeanne C. Marsh, Ph.D., George Herbert Jones Distinguished Service Professor Emerita
Stanley McCracken, Ph.D., Lecturer Emeritus
J. Curtis McMillen, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus; David and Mary Winton Green Professor
Charles M. Payne, Ph.D., Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus
William Pollak, Ph.D., Associate Professor Emeritus
Melissa Roderick, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus; Hermon Dunlap Smith Professor; Faculty Affiliate, Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality; Member, Committee on Education;
Tina L. Rzepnicki, Ph.D., David and Mary Winton Green Professor Emerita
John R. Schuerman, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus
Froma Walsh, Ph.D., Mose and Sylvia Firestone Professor Emerita

The Crown Family School Council

The Crown Family School Council was established in 1955 to help interpret the School’s mission and goals to the public, advise the Dean about the needs and concerns of the community, and assist the School in its financial development efforts. Committee members hold positions of leadership in many social service and philanthropic agencies.

Donna E. Barrows AM '79
Robert Cannon AB '83
Kate Markin Coleman MBA '78, MLA '98, Chair
Bernard S. Dyme AM '79
Cynthia Greenleaf
Ricardo Estrada Gonzalez AM ‘93
Priscilla Kersten
Stephanie D. Larsen AM ’66
Jill Levi
Adam Levine JD '95
Amy S. Lubin AM '75
Linda Kelly Lymburn AM '80
Katharine (Kitty) B. Mann AM '69, PhD '99
Alice Spahr AM ‘93
Whitney Smith AM ‘98
David J. Vitale MBA '76

Life Members

Sonia Kabakow "Sunny" Fischer AM '82
Mary Winton Green AM '49
Ann Dibble Jordan AM '61
Iris J. Krieg AM '75