The Edward Zigler Center
in Child Development and Social Policy
310 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Tel: 203.432.9935
Fax: 203.432.9945
sandra.bishop@yale.edu
The faculty at the Zigler Center consist of those with Faculty appointments, Faculty Affiliates and those currently working as Senior Associates. More information can be found on the faculty by clicking on their names or pictures. Zigler Center faculty members work in a wide variety of research and policy issues, either through the exisiting Zigler Center divisions or through affiliated research centers listed on their individual faculty pages. Most Zigler faculty do not receive mail or phone calls at the Zigler Center. To obtain faculty US mail addresses or phone numbers, see the Yale directory. Faculty email addresses can be found by clicking below on names or pictures.
Clinical Professor and Coordinator of In-Home Services,
Child Study Center
Jean Adnopoz coordinates In-Home Services at the Yale Child Study Center. She has developed intervention and treatment models that provide home-based services for children and families affected by abuse or neglect, parental substance abuse, HIV/AIDS, homelessness and chronic mental illness more...
Associate Research Scientist, Child Study Center
Assistant Director, Zigler Center
Co-Director, Zigler Center Child Welfare Division
Sandra Bishop-Josef directs the Zigler Center’s training program. Her primary research interests are in the areas of child abuse and neglect, childhood intervention programs, and the application of research to social policy. With colleagues at Massachusetts General Hospital, she has more...
Associate Research Scientist / Director,
Health, Emotions, & Behavior Laboratory, Psychology
Director, Zigler Center Emotional Intelligence Division
Marc Brackett directs the Zigler Center’s Emotional Intelligence Division . His research focuses on (a) the measurement of emotional intelligence (defined as a set of skills pertaining to the perception, use, understanding, and management of emotion) in children and adults more...
Associate Research Scientist,
Child Study Center
Director, Zigler Center International Division
Pia Rebello Britto’s area of expertise is early child development and education programming and policy. Dr. Rebello Britto is currently working, with a team, in over 15 countries on the development of national standards and indicators for monitoring child development outcomes. She is also working with national governments to formulate their early childhood more...
Professor of Psychology, Epidemiology and Public Health
Institute of Social Policy Studies
Director, Yale Center for Eating and Weight Disorders
Director, Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity
Kelly Brownell ’s work concerns eating, weight, and nutrition issues, and emphasizes both clinical and public health perspectives. On the clinical front, he directs the Yale Center for Eating and Weight Disorders where individuals with anorexia, bulimia, binge eating more...
Associate Professor and Director, Nursing Management
Policy and Leadership Specialty, School of Nursing
Sally S. Cohen is Associate Professor and Director, Nursing Management, Policy and Leadership Specialty at Yale School of Nursing. Her scholarship focuses on linkages among practice, policy, and research for several areas, especially social policies more...
Maurice Falk Professor of Child Psychiatry,
School of Medicine
Professor, Child Study Center
Institute of Social Policy Studies
James Comer founded the School Development Program (SDP), a nationally acclaimed school reform strategy that has been used in more than 1000 schools in 26 states, as well as in England, Ireland, South Africa, and the Caribbean more...
Assistant Professor, Psychology
Department of Psychiatry
School of Medicine (The Consultation Center)
Christian Connell is interested in examining ecological risk and protective processes that influence developmental and other outcomes for child and adolescent populations exposed to adversity – with a particular emphasis on populations in contact more...
Senior Research Scientist, Psychology,
Child Study Center
Associate Director, Zigler Center
Director, The School of the 21st Century
Matia Finn-Stevenson is Associate Director of the Zigler Center in Child Development and Social Policy and Director of the Center’s School of the 21st Century unit. Her research interests and work are in areas pertaining to work/family life issues and program development and evaluation, school reform and family support services. She is primary author of a recently published book on education reform initiatives and the principal investigator more...
Director, Teacher Preparation and
Education Studies Program
Lecturer, Sociology
Jack Gillette directs the Teacher Preparation and Education Studies Program. His writing and research focus on the nature of the task of teaching in context, group and organizational more...
Assistant Professor, Child Study Center and Psychology
Director, Zigler Center
Walter Gilliam’s research involves early childhood education and intervention policy analysis (specifically how policies translate into effective services), ways to improve the quality of more...
Associate Professor, Child Study Center, Psychology
Associate Professor, Psychology,
Moscow University
Elena Grigorenko’s research is in the fields of psychology, learning disabilities, and neuropsychiatric genetics. Her research involves a number of areas of childhood adaptive and maladaptive behaviors, including cognitive development, environmental factors and developmental risk, and the etiology of learning more...
Professor, Epidemiology and Public Health
Deputy Director, Yale Center for Interdisciplinary
Research on AIDS
Jeannette Ickovics' research focuses on women and HIV/AIDS, as well as more general research on the interaction of biomedical and psychosocial factors that promote good health and recovery. She has been engaged in clinic- and community-based research, focusing on individuals traditionally more...
Associate Professor, Psychiatry
Co-Director, Zigler Center Child Welfare Division
Joan Kaufman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, and Director of the Child and Adolescent Research and Education (C.A.R.E.) Program within the Department. The C.A.R.E. Program is dedicated to work with maltreated children more...
John M. Musser Professor of Psychology and Child Psychiatry
Professor, Institute for Social and Policy Studies
Director, Yale Parenting Center and
Child Conduct Clinic
Yale University
Alan Kazdin’s research focuses on the diagnosis, assessment, and treatment of childhood dysfunction, especially oppositional, defiant, aggressive, and antisocial behavior. We work with children referred for treatment at more...
Assistant Professor and
Coordinator for Graduate Studies
Department of Early Childhood and Childhood Education, Lehman College, City College of New York Research Affiliate, Yale Psychology
Janet P. Kreminitzer’s areas of research interest are: (a) the application of the Salovey/Mayer model of Emotional Intelligence to education, both for pre-service teacher preparation training, as well as for in-service teacher professional development; (b) developing and more...
Professor of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Child Study Center
Clinical Professor, School of Nursing
Attending Pediatrician / Medical Director
Child Abuse Commitee and Sexual Abuse Clinic,
Yale New Haven Children's Hospital
John Leventhal’s research interests include the epidemiology of child maltreatment; risk factors for child abuse and neglect; prevention of child abuse more...
Professor, Public Policy and Managment
School of Management
Professor, Department of Political Science and
Institute for Social Policy Studies
Theodore R. Marmor continues his work on the politics of the contemporary welfare state. His policy concentration has been medical care and health, particularly in North America, within a comparative framework. He focuses on the way financing more...
Arnold Gesell Professor of Child Psychiatry,
Pediatrics and Psychology, Child Study Center
Linda Mayes is involved in several areas of research including: early development of attention and arousal regulatory mechanisms in normal and high risk infants; developmental outcome of infants and young children with increased perinatal risks from both specific more...
Assistant Clinical Professor of Social Work
Coordinator of Child Placement and Custody,
Child Study Center
Barbara F. Nordhaus is continuing her work on child placement and custody conflict involving abused and neglected children and children of divorce more...
Lecturer, Child Study Center
Professor, Communication Disorders,
Southern Connecticut State University
Rhea Paul's primary research interest is child language disorders; specifically Rhea's interests include speech perception, prosody, and pragmatics in children with autism spectrum disorders. Her second area of interest is in the development of language-based literacy skills in preschool- and primary school-aged children more...
Chris Argyris Professor of Psychology
Professor of Management
Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health
Deputy Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS
Yale University Provost
The program of research conducted in my laboratory concerns two general issues in social/personality psychology: (a) the psychological significance and function of human moods and emotions and (b) the application of principles more...
Associate Professor, Child Psychiatry and Psychology
Co-Director, International Program on
Child and Adolescent Mental Health,
Child Study Center
Mary Schwab-Stone has conducted an ongoing epidemiological assessment of competencies, problem behaviors, attitudes, and psychiatric symptoms of adolescent populations in local urban, suburban and private school systems, known as more...
Research Scientist, Psychology and Child Study Center
Victoria Seitz is collaborating on a longitudinal study of more than 4,000 children in Missouri. The data provide evidence of the effectiveness of the Parents as Teachers Program—a home visiting program in which parents learn to interact more effectively with their preschool children-- in raising children’s school readiness and subsequently more...
Augustus Lines Professor of Law, Emeritus
Professorial Lecturer, Yale Law School
John Simon has been engaged in teaching in the field of elementary and secondary education at Yale Law School since 1965; in the past two years he has offered one course and sponsored two reading groups in this field. In the late 1990s he sponsored more...
Senior Research Scientist, Psychology
Senior Research Associate, Child Study Center
Co-Director, Yale Family Television
Research and Consultation Center
Co-Director, Zigler Center Electronic Media and Families Unit
Dorothy G. Singer is Senior Research Scientist Emeritus, Department of Psychology, Yale University. She is also Co-Director of the Yale University Family Television Research and Consultation Center; Fellow, Morse College; and more...
Professor of Psychology and Child Study Center, Emeritus
Co-Director, Yale Family Television
Research and Consultation Center
Co-Director, Zigler Center Electronic Media and Families Unit
Jerome L. Singer is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Yale University, where he served for many years as Director of the Graduate Program in Clinical Psychology and also as Director of Graduate Studies in Psychology. His research includes more...
Sterling Professor of Psychology, Emeritus
Director Emeritus, Edward Zigler Center
Co-Director, Zigler Center Head Start Unit
Edward Zigler continues his lifetime interest in the motivational determinants of children's performance and the influence of life circumstances on children's behavior and development. This work includes the effects of socialization settings, child care, more...
Professor, Psychology,
University of Massachusetts, Boston
Associate Clinical Professor,
Child Study Center,
Yale University
Alice Carter's research interests include developmental psychopathology; multidimensional assessment of social-emotional development in infancy and early childhood; developmental models that incorporate genetic and environmental more...
Professor and Chair,
Counseling and School Psychology
Southern Connecticut State University
Associate Professor,
Child Study Center, Psychology,
Yale University
Norris Haynes’ research interests include an examination of factors that influence the social, emotional and academic development and performance of children in schools. Specifically, he is interested in the multiple relationships more...
Associate Professor, Psychology
Georgia State University
Chris Henrich works with the Zigler Center involves collaborating on a national evaluation of The Schools of the 21st Century. He is also evaluating 21st Century Community Learning Center after-school programs in Kansas City, MO. His interests focus on contextual factors that influence children’s school more...
Assistant Professor
Harvard Graduate School of Education
Stephanie Jones ’ research interests focus on the nature and structure of social and emotional problems and competencies in early childhood and adolescence. Her work concentrates on the impact of broad ecological risks, such as poverty and exposure to community violence more...
Director, Child FIRST
Section Chief, Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics
Bridgeport Hospital
Assistant Clinical Professor,
Department of Pediatrics and Child Study Center,
Yale University
Darcy Lowell directs Child FIRST (Child and Family Interagency Resource, Support, and Training Program) at Bridgeport Hospital. Child FIRST is a new, innovative early childhood system of care, serving very young children and their families with multiple challenges more...
Professor, Developmental and Clinical Psychology
Teachers College, Columbia University
Director, Child & Family Research, APT Foundation
Research Affiliate, School of Medicine
Conducted within the framework of developmental psychopathology, Dr. Luthar's research involves vulnerability and resilience among at-risk populations. Studies currently in progress focus on adjustment disturbances more...
Assistant Professor, Psychology
Southern Connecticut State University
Katherine Marsland is working on a book on child care policy with colleagues at the Zigler Center. In addition, she continues research on the antecedents of achievement motivation in early childhood and is collaborating on a study in this area with a graduate student more...
Adjunct Professor of Pediatrics
North Carolina Center for Children's Health Care Improvement
University of North Carolina,Chapel Hill
Kathryn Taaffe McLearn’s research focuses on the influence of parental health and child health care services on parenting practices and child outcomes. A primary interest is the notion of a two generation perspective for child health care that includes more...
President and CEO,
The Jamestown Project
Stephanie Robinson is the President and CEO of The Jamestown Project, a diverse action-oriented think tank of new leaders who reach across boundaries and generations to make democracy real. more...
Regional Medical Director,
Connecticut Department of Children and Families
Assistant Clinical Proessor and Associate Training Director
Child Study Center,
Yale University
Lesley Siegel has worked as a public sector child psychiatrist for over 20 years. From 1996-2006, Dr. Siegel was Medical Director of Riverview Hospital for Children and Youth more...
Co-Creator and Executive Producer of PBS "Between the Lions"
Writer/Composer/Lyricist for Sesame Street
President of Sirius Thinking, Ltd.
Consultant, The School of the 21st Century
Christopher Cerf works with the Zigler Center’s The School of the 21st Century Unit, focusing on its early literacy work. He has been working with Matia Finn-Stevenson and a group of Center fellows and colleagues, including Michael Levine more...
Assistant Professor, Counseling and School Psychology
Southern Connecticut State University
Senior Associate, The School of the 21st Century,
Yale University
Misty Ginicola’s research has focused on using a developmental lens to understand the varying experience of depression in children. More broadly, she is interested in the experience of mental health problems in school settings, and the development of empirically based interventions more...
Founding Executive Director,
Joan Ganz Cooney Center for Children's Media
and Research,
Sesame Workshop
Consultant, The School of the 21st Century,Yale University
Michael Levine works with the Zigler Center's School of the 21st Century Unit, helping make its early literacy work more impactful through linkages to potentially powerful informal education resources, such as children's television and more...
District Parent Involvement Coordinator and Reading Coach,
Boyd County, KY
Senior Associate for Policy and Community Outreach,
The School of the 21st Century,
Yale University
Senior Associate for Leadership Development
The School of the 21st Century,
Yale University
Patricia Schumacher has been working with the Zigler Center’s The School of the 21st Century Unit, supporting Arkansas leaders in the program’s implementation and expansion. She has been specifically involved in leadership more...
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