Academy Professors

Meet Our Academy Faculty

Several of our professors are members of the prestigious National Academy of Education, National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Greg Duncan, Distinguished Professor

National Academy of Sciences

National Academy of Education

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Dr. Duncan spent the first 25 years of his career at the University of Michigan working on, and ultimately directing, the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) data collection project, which was named in 2001 by the National Science Foundation to be one of the 50 most significant NSF-funded projects in the organization’s history. His research highlights the influence of economic deprivation and policy-induced income increases on children’s developmental trajectories. He is part of a team conducting a randomassignment trial assessing the impacts of income supplements on the cognitive development of infants born to low-income mothers in four diverse U.S. communities.

Jacquelynne Sue Eccles, Distinguished Professor

National Academy of Education

Over the past 50 years, Dr. Eccles has conducted research on a wide variety of topics including gender-role socialization, teacher expectancies, classroom influences on student motivation, and social development in the family and school context. One of the leading developmental scientists of her generation, she has made seminal contributions to the study of achievementrelated decisions and human development. Most notably, her expectancy-value theory of motivation and her concept of stage-environment fit have served as perhaps the most dominant models of achievement during the school years, contributing to extensive research and reform efforts to improve the nature of secondary school transitions.

Judith Kroll, Distinguished Professor

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Dr. Kroll is the author of more than a hundred studies that have appeared in publications including the Journal of Experimental Psychology, Cognition, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Brain & Language. Her research uses the tools of cognitive neuroscience to ask how bilingual speakers juggle two languages and how learning and using more than one language comes to change the mind and the brain. She was a founding editor of the journal Bilingualism: Language and Cognition and among the founding organizers of Women in Cognitive Science.

Deborah Lowe Vandell, Chancellor’s Professor Emerita

National Academy of Education

An author of 190 articles and five books, Dr. Vandell’s research focuses on the effects of developmental contexts (early childhood education & care, K-12 schools, afterschool programs, families) on social, behavioral, and academic functioning. Her work as one of the principal investigators with the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development is viewed by many social scientists as one of the most comprehensive studies of the short-term and long-term effects of early education programs, schooling, and families on children’s development. Vandell is also Founding Dean Emerita of Education at the University of California, Irvine.

Mark Warschauer, Professor

National Academy of Education

Dr. Warschauer is one of the most widely-cited scholars in the world on digital learning, addressing topics such as computer-assisted language learning, digital literacy, the digital divide, one-to-one laptop classrooms and artificial intelligence in education. His current focuses are on the use of conversational agents to support children’s STEM and language learning and on the teaching and learning of computer science for linguistically diverse students. He has served as founding editor of Language Learning & Technology journal and inaugural editor of AERA Open. A former Fulbright Scholar and US Title VII Bilingual Education Fellow, he is a Fellow of the American Education Research Association.