Archives: Affiliates

Janelle Hawes is a sociologist and criminologist by training with a passion for social justice and research regarding and for the benefit of marginalized and disadvantaged populations. Topically, her research addresses inequalities in several social constructs, concentrating on vulnerable populations. She was strongly influenced by her doctoral minors in demography and quantitative methods and associations with the Center for Family and Demographic Research and the National Center for Family & Marriage Research at Bowling Green State University (BGSU) during graduate school. Her mentors included notable and influential family demographers and criminology/criminal justice experts that place large priority on bridging the study of crime and society with demography. Her research asks questions about the social realities of multiple vulnerable populations and the implications of their experiences and outcomes on their whole person, meaning all aspects of their lives. Her work is focused on adolescents, including their social domains (school, family, friends). In particular, she examines the influence of these domains on current and future well-being in terms of exposure to the criminal justice system, due to the deleterious effects of crime and incarceration on personal health, family dynamics and well-being, and economic conditions. This focus is also expanded to include cross-over youth (youths involved in both the foster and criminal justice systems) and individuals with mental health concerns.

Amy Bailey’s research examines race and inequality, with two key areas of focus. The first, which was the subject of her dissertation, examines the military, especially the interplay between individual and collective outcomes. This line of work examines a variety of questions, including the military’s effects on migration and population redistribution, the changing racialized dynamics between military employment and intergenerational mobility, and the links between community-level socioeconomic characteristics and military participation among young adults. She is a 2015-16 Research Scholar at the Great Cities Institute, which supports her current project, “Transition to Adulthood for Working Class Youth: Institutions and Informal Practices in Local Communities.” This project conceptualizes joining the armed forces as one of many options available to young people, and seeks to understand how institutional and informal processes may contribute to local variation in social mobility regimes for working class youth.

Her second area of research focuses on historical patterns of racial violence in the American South, more commonly known as lynching. She is particularly interested in the characteristics of individuals who were targeted for victimization, and with Stew Tolnay has written a book, Lynched: The Victims of Southern Mob Violence, on the characteristics of lynch victims that was published in 2015 by the University of North Carolina Press. She currently holds a grant from the National Science Foundation to build a database using census records for individuals who were threatened with lynching or survived an attempted lynching.

Bailey’s prior work has been published in journals including the American Journal of Sociology, The American Sociological Review, Population Research and Policy Review, and Historical Methods. She is a member of the Social Science History Association’s Publications Committee, and serves on the American Sociological Association’s Peace, War, and Social Conflict section’s administrative council. Bailey joined the UIC Department of Sociology as an assistant professor in the summer of 2013. She previously held positions as an NIH funded research fellow at Princeton University’s Office of Population Research, and on the faculty at Utah State University. She earned a PhD and an MA in Sociology at the University of Washington, and holds a BA in Women’s Studies and Health from the University of California at Santa Cruz.

Joshua Tom received his doctorate in sociology from Baylor University, and spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia. He conducts research in the areas of race and ethnicity, religion, and marriage and family. His work has been published in Social Science Research, Sociological Perspectives, Sociological Spectrum, and Journal of Family Issues.

Jacqueline E. Darroch is a Senior Fellow at the Guttmacher Institute. She has been involved with the Guttmacher Institute since 1978. As Interim President in 2003 and Senior Vice President from 1996 to 2004, she provided leadership for the organization’s policy-focused research and public education on sexual and reproductive health. She oversaw developments and opportunities in the areas of research, theory and methodology, health care delivery and financing, public opinion and behavior, and local, state, federal and international policies and programs. In addition, she worked to obtain funding from private foundations, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Population Affairs. Dr. Darroch also held the positions of Director of Research (1978–1988), Vice President for Research (1988–2002) and Vice President for Science (2002–2004).

Dr. Darroch served as Associate Director for Reproductive Health at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation from 2004 to 2006. She is the author or coauthor of more than 100 articles and publications on sexual behavior, fertility, family planning, maternal and child health, teenage pregnancy and abortion.

Crystal Hall joined the Evans School faculty in 2008. She teaches courses on psychology for policy analysis, decision theory, and quantitative analysis.

Her research explores decision making in the context of poverty, using the methods of social and cognitive psychology, along with behavioral economics. This work has had a particular focus on financial decision making and economic opportunity for low-income families. In addition to broadening the theoretical understanding of the behavior of this population, her work has also explored new ways of incorporating these insights into policy design and implementation. She has a record of serving government agencies at the local, state, and federal level – including having served as a Fellow on the White House Social and Behavioral Sciences Team and the Federal Office of Evaluation Sciences at the General Services Administration. She is also an Academic Affiliate of ideas42, and a Faculty Affiliate at the University of Washington’s West Coast Poverty Center.

In addition to her academic work, Hall has provided guidance to community organizations and nonprofits seeking to implement tools from psychology and behavioral economics into the design and delivery of their programs and services. She has worked with organizations in Central New Jersey and Philadelphia, and more recently with members of the Washington Asset Building Coalition. At a national level, she has consulted with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Administration for Children and Families.

Hall holds a PhD and MA in Psychology from Princeton University. In addition, she holds a BS from Carnegie Mellon University in both decision science and policy and management.

Alan Griffith’s primary research revolves around the causes and effects of social networks in economic development. He studies how networks form and change over time, as well as how such networks influence—and are influenced by—economic and other social outcomes. His research aims to take insights from economic theory and statistics of networks to bear on real-world applications, as well as positing new methods to draw inferences from observed interactions. His additional research areas deal with related issues, mostly arising out of issues in economic development. It broadly spans economic theory, econometrics, development, and labor subfields in economics while taking methodological cues from structural estimation in industrial organization.

Dr. Grace John-Stewart is a Professor of Global Health, Medicine, Epidemiology, and Pediatrics at the University of Washington. Her interests include prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT), improving outcomes for children with HIV, and addressing relevant co-infections that affect women and children with HIV (including TB, pneumonia, diarrhea, CMV).  Dr. John-Stewart has published over 280 peer-reviewed articles. Her research is based in Kenya and includes molecular epidemiologic studies, clinical trials, implementation science studies, and program evaluations focused on HIV and maternal child health.  She received the Elizabeth Glaser Scientist Award for research on mother-to-child transmission of HIV.  Dr. John-Stewart has mentored numerous trainees, received a K24 Mentorship Award, and received a UW School of Medicine mentorship award. She is the Director of the UW CFAR International Core and the UW Global Center for Integrated Health of Women, Adolescents and Children (Global WACh).

Dr. Wagenaar is an Associate Professor in the Department of Global Health at the University of Washington, and a Technical Advisor to Health Alliance International, a Center in the Department of Global Health. His work focuses on using innovative implementation science methods to answer pressing questions around improving public-sector health systems and health policies globally. He has particular interests in improving the prevention and treatment of mental illness in low-resource settings in the US and globally. In addition, he is passionate about the use of quasi-experimental designs and routine health information systems data to optimize the scale-up of complex health systems approaches globally.

He is currently PI or Co-I on a number of mental health implementation science projects in Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, and South Africa. As faculty in the DGH, he teaches the Advanced Global Health Evaluation Methods course (GH537) offered each spring. He has also worked to develop innovative online distance learning courses in implementation science that have, to date, trained >1,000 students from >30 countries.

Arthur Acolin is an Associate Professor in the University of Washington’s College of Built Environments. He obtained his Ph.D. in Urban Planning and Development from the Sol Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California in May 2017. His dissertation, titled “Three Essays on Frictions in Housing Markets” looked at various market imperfections that affect household housing choices and impact their financial outcomes. His field of research is housing economics with a focus on international housing policy and finance. His particular interest is on how housing market institutions and market designs affect household access to housing (tenure choice, housing consumption and mobility decision). Prior to completing his Ph.D. Acolin was a Research Associate in the Real Estate department of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania where he worked on housing, urbanization and economic development issues. He obtained a master in Urban Policy from the London School of Economics and Sciences Po Paris and an undergraduate degree in Urban Studies from the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Engi Attia received her medical degree from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and a Master’s in Public Health from the University of Washington. She completed her Fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship here at the University of Washington. Engi’s research interests involve the intersection of chronic lung disease and HIV infection. In collaboration with TREE at the Coptic Hope Center in Nairobi, Kenya, she is examining chronic lung diseases and associated risk factors among individuals with HIV infection, with a particular interest in adolescents with vertically-acquired HIV. Engi spent time at the Coptic Hope Center in 2014 and again in 2015 to implement two prospective, observational studies addressing these relationships under the combined mentorship of Drs. Michael Chung and Kristina Crothers. Engi received a K23 (HL129888) Career Development Award in February 2017 from the NIH National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to continue examining mechanisms of and risk factors for chronic lung disease in HIV-infected adolescents in Nairobi.