Officers of the University

Andrew M. Alper, Chairman of the Board of Trustees
Robert J. Zimmer, President of the University
Thomas F. Rosenbaum, Provost

Administration of the School

  • Neil B. Guterman, Dean
  • Celia M. Bergman, Dean of Students
  • Robert J. Chaskin, Deputy Dean for Strategic Initiatives
  • Stephen G. Gilmore, Associate Dean for External Affairs
  • Keith Madderom, Associate Dean for Administration
  • Harold A. Pollack, Deputy Dean for Research and Faculty Development
  • Tina L. Rzepnicki, Deputy Dean for Curriculum
  • C. Gidget Ambuehl, Office Manager
  • Nancy Chertok, Director of Field Education
  • Mary Debose, Assistant Director of Admissions
  • Laura M. El-Weist, Associate Dean of Students
  • Suzanne A. Fournier, Assistant Dean for Administration and Director of Grants and Contracts
  • Laura Chavez Hardy, Director of Admissions
  • Bharathi Jayaram, Associate Director of Field Education
  • Michael Jogerst, Assistant Dean and Director of Career Services
  • Julie Jung, Director of Communications
  • Richard Kass, Director of Information Technologies
  • Eileen Libby, Librarian
  • Sara L. Manewith, Associate Director of Special Gifts
  • Yelene Modley, Associate Director of Alumni Relations and the SSA Fund
  • Maureen Stimming, Director of Professional Development Program and Marketing
  • TBD, IRB Direction, SSA and Chapin Hall

Officers of Instruction

  • Scott W. Allard, Ph.D., Associate Professor; Faculty Affiliate, Graduate Program in Health Administration and Policy
  • Jennifer L. Bellamy, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
  • William Borden, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer
  • Alida M. Bouris, Ph.D., Assistant Professor; Faculty Affiliate, Center for Human Potential and Public Policy
  • Evelyn Z. Brodkin, Ph.D., Associate Professor
  • E. Summerson Carr, Ph.D., Associate Professor
  • Robert J. Chaskin, Ph.D., Associate Professor; Faculty Partner, Chapin Hall
  • Yoonsun Choi, Ph.D., Associate Professor; Faculty Affiliate, Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture and Center for Human Potential and Public Policy
  • Mark E. Courtney, Ph.D., Professor; Faculty Partner, Chapin Hall
  • Matthew W. Epperson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
  • Robert P. Fairbanks II, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
  • Roberto G. Gonzales, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
  • Deborah Gorman-Smith, Ph.D., Professor, Faculty Affiliate, Center for Human Potential and Public Policy
  • Colleen M. Grogan, Ph.D., Professor; Faculty Co-director, Center for Health Administration Studies; Faculty Chair, Graduate Program in Health Administration and Policy; Faculty Affiliate, Center for Health and the Social Sciences
  • Neil B. Guterman, Ph.D., Mose and Sylvia Firestone Professor
  • Sydney L. Hans, Ph.D., Samuel Deutsch Professor; Faculty Affiliate, Center for Human Potential and Public Policy
  • Julia R. Henly, Ph.D., Associate Professor; Faculty Affiliate, Center for Human Potential and Public Policy
  • Heather D. Hill, Ph.D., Assistant Professor; Faculty Affiliate, Center for Human Potential and Public Policy
  • Leyla Ismayilova, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
  • Waldo E. Johnson, Jr., Ph.D., Associate Professor; Faculty Affiliate, Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture and Center for Human Potential and Public Policy
  • Susan J. Lambert, Ph.D., Associate Professor
  • Jens Ludwig, Ph.D., McCormick Foundation Professor of Social Service Administration, Law, and Public Policy; Co-Director, University of Chicago Crime Lab; Faculty Affiliate,  Center for Human Potential and Public Policy
  • Jeanne C. Marsh, Ph.D., George Herbert Jones Distinguished Service Professor; Faculty Director, Center for Health Administration Studies; Faculty Affiliate, Graduate Program in Health Administration and Policy
  • Stanley G. McCracken, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer
  • J. Curtis McMillen, Ph.D., Professor
  • Jennifer E. Mosley, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
  • Virginia L. Parks, Ph.D., Associate Professor; Faculty Affiliate, Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture
  • Charles M. Payne, Ph.D., Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor; Faculty Affiliate, Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture
  • Harold A. Pollack, Ph.D., Helen Ross Professor; Faculty Associate, Center for Health Administration Studies; Faculty Advisor, Graduate Program in Health Administration and Policy; Co-Director, University of Chicago Crime Lab; Faculty Affiliate, Center for Health and the Social Sciences
  • Melissa Roderick, Ph.D., Hermon Dunlap Smith Professor
  • Tina L. Rzepnicki, Ph.D., David and Mary Winton Green Professor
  • Gina Miranda Samuels, Ph.D., Associate Professor; Faculty Affiliate, Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture (on leave 2011-2012)
  • William Sites, Ph.D., Associate Professor
  • Michael R. Sosin, Ph.D., Emily Klein Gidwitz Professor; Faculty Affiliate, Graduate Program in Health Administration and Policy
  • Dexter R. Voisin, Ph.D., Associate Professor; Faculty Affiliate, Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture, Graduate Program in Health Administration and Policy, and Center for Human Potential and Public Policy
  • Miwa Yasui, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
  • Marci A. Ybarra, Ph.D., Assistant Professor

Faculty Emeriti

  • Sharon B. Berlin, Ph.D., Helen Ross Professor Emerita
  • Irene Elkin, Ph.D., Professor Emerita
  • Laurence E. Lynn, Jr., Ph.D., Sydney Stein, Jr., Professor Emeritus
  • Dolores G. Norton, Ph.D., Samuel Deutsch Professor Emerita
  • William Pollak, Ph.D., Associate Professor Emeritus
  • John R. Schuerman, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus
  • Bernece K. Simon, A.M., Samuel Deutsch Professor Emerita
  • Froma Walsh, Ph.D., Mose and Sylvia Firestone Professor Emerita
Rachel Durchslag

Demanding Change

Rachel Durchslag is the winner of SSA’s 2012 Butler Award for her groundbreaking work to transform how we view prostitution and protect its victims