Administrators & Staff

Officers of the University

Andrew M. Alper, AB '80, MBA '81, LLD '16
Robert J. Zimmer, President of the University
Daniel Diermeier, Provost

Administration of the School

Deborah Gorman-Smith Interim Dean

  • Robert J. Chaskin, Deputy Dean for Strategic Initiatives
  • Mark E. Courtney, Editor, Social Service Review 
  • Sydney L. Hans, Deputy Dean for Research and Faculty Development
  • Julia R. Henly, Chair of the SSA Doctoral Program
  • J. Curtis McMillen, Deputy Dean for Curriculum
  • Suzanne A. Fournier, Assistant Dean for Administration and Director of Grants and Contracts
  • Sara C. Furr, Dean of Students
  • Esty Gur, Associate Dean for Administration
  • Michael A. Jogerst, Assistant Dean and Director of Career Services
  • Mari Philipsborn, Associate Dean of Development
  • Kristen Reid-Salomon, Assistant Dean of Students
  • Adrian Talbott, Assistant Dean for Civic Engagement
  • C. Gidget Ambuehl-Armstrong, Office Manager
  • Nancy Chertok, Director of Field Education
  • Mary S. Debose, Assistant Director of Admissions
  • Sarah Hyde, Assistant Director of Admissions
  • Bharathi Jayaram, Associate Director of Field Education
  • Julie Jung, Director of Marketing and Communications
  • Richard J. Kass, Director of Information Technologies
  • Ron Martin, Director of Admissions
  • Eleanor Mattern, Librarian
  • Yelene Modley, Senior Associate Director of Alumni Relations and the SSA Fund
  • Maureen Stimming, Director of Professional Development Program and Marketing
  • Paula Tsurutani, Senior Strategic Writer
  • Kari E. Walsh, IRB Director

Officers of Instruction

  • William Borden, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer
  • 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 on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality
  • Evelyn Z. Brodkin, Ph.D., Associate Professor; Faculty Associate, Political Science
  • E. Summerson Carr, Ph.D., Associate Professor; Faculty Associate, Anthropology Department and Department of Comparative Human Development; Faculty Affiliate, Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality
  • Robert J. Chaskin, Ph.D., Professor; Affiliated Scholar, Chapin Hall; Faculty, Graduate Program in Health Administration and Policy. He holds the UNESCO Chair for Inclusive Urbanism at SSA. 
  • Yoonsun Choi, Ph.D., Associate Professor; Faculty Affiliate, Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture
  • Mark E. Courtney, Ph.D., Samuel Deutsch Professor; Affiliated Scholar, Chapin Hall. (On leave during the 2018-19 academic year.)
  • Matthew W. Epperson, Ph.D., Associate Professor; Fellow, Center for Health Administration Studies; Faculty Affiliate, Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture; Faculty Director, Smart Decarceration Initiative
  • Eve Ewing, Ph.D., Assistant Professor; Faculty Affiliate, Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture
  • Gina Fedock, Ph.D., Assistant Professor; Faculty Affiliate, Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality
  • Angela García, Ph.D., Assistant Professor; Fellow, Center for Health Administration Studies; Affiliated Faculty, Center for Latin American Studies; Faculty Affiliate, Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture and Katz Center for Mexican Studies; Associated Faculty, Department of Sociology
  • Yanilda María González, Ph.D., Assistant Professor; Faculty Affiliate, Center for Latin American Studies and Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture
  • Deborah Gorman-Smith, Ph.D., Emily Klein Gidwitz Professor; Executive Committee Member, Center for Health Administration Studies; Director, Chicago Center for Youth Violence Prevention 
  • Colleen M. Grogan, Ph.D., Professor; Steering Committee Member, Center for Global Health; Co-Director, Center for Health Administration Studies; Affiliated Faculty, Center for Health and the Social Sciences; Chicago Center for HIV Elimination; Faculty Advisor, Graduate Program in Health Administration and Policy
  • Sydney L. Hans, Ph.D., Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor; Faculty, Department of Comparative Human Development; Associate, Department of Psychology
  • Julia R. Henly, Ph.D., Associate Professor; Faculty Affiliate, Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality; Co-Director, Employment Instability, Family Well-being, and Social Policy Network; Associate, Department of Psychology
  • E. Paul Holmes, Psy.D., Senior Lecturer
  • Leyla Ismayilova, Ph.D., Assistant 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., Associate Professor; Fellow, Center for the Study of Health Administration Studies; Faculty Affiliate, Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality and Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture. (On leave during the 2018-19 academic year.)
  • Susan J. Lambert, Ph.D., Associate Professor; Co-Director, Employment Instability, Fmily Well-being, and Social Policy Network
  • Zhiying Ma, Ph.D. Assistant Professor; Faculty Affiliate, Center for East Asian Studies
  • Jeanne C. Marsh, Ph.D., George Herbert Jones Distinguished Service Professor; Director, Center for Health Administration Studies; Co-Director, Graduate Program in Health Administration and Policy
  • Nicole Marwell, Ph.D., Associate Professor; Faculty Fellow, Center for Spatial Data Science; Associated Faculty, Department of Sociology 
  • Stanley G. McCracken, Ph.D., Lecturer
  • J. Curtis McMillen, Ph.D., David and Mary Winton Green Professor; Executive Committee Member, Center for Health Administration Studies
  • Reuben Miller, Ph.D., Assistant Professor; Faculty Affiliate, Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture
  • Jennifer E. Mosley, Ph.D., Associate Professor (On leave during the 2018-19 academic year.)
  • Harold A. Pollack, Ph.D., Helen Ross Professor; Affiliate Professor in the Biological Sciences Collegiate Division and the Department of Public Health Sciences; Affiliated Scholar, California Youth Transitions to Adulthood Study; Executive Committee Member, Center for Health Administration Studies; Faculty Affiliate, Center for Health and the Social Sciences; Acting Faculty Director, 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 (On leave during the 2018-19 academic year.)
  • Shantá Robinson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor; Faculty Affiliate, Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture
  • Melissa Roderick, Ph.D., Hermon Dunlap Smith Professor; Faculty Affiliate, Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality; Member, Committee on Education
  • Gina Miranda Samuels, Ph.D., Associate Professor; Faculty Affiliate, Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture 
  • William Sites, Ph.D., Associate Professor; Faculty Affiliate, Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality
  • Dexter R. Voisin, Ph.D., Professor; Fellow, Center for Health Administration Studies; Faculty Affiliate, Center for Health and Social Sciences; Faculty Affiliate, Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture; Co-Director, Chicago Center for HIV Elimination; Faculty, Graduate Program in Health Administration and Policy; Director, STI/HIV Intervention Network
  • Miwa Yasui, Ph.D., Associate Professor; Faculty Affiliate, Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture 
  • Marci A. Ybarra, Ph.D., Associate Professor; Fellow, Center for Health Administration Studies; Faculty Affiliate, Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture; Co-Director, Employment Instability, Family Well-being, and Social Policy Network
  • Alan Zarychta, Ph.D., Assistant 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
  • 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
  • Charles M. Payne, Ph.D., Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus
  • William Pollak, Ph.D., Associate Professor Emeritus
  • 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