Social Sciences/Politics

Fields of Expertise

Social Sciences/Politics Experts

  • Marc A. Brackett, Ph.D.

    Professor in the Child Study Center; Director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence; Co-Creator, RULER
    Expertise: Emotional intelligence, social and emotional learning, education reform, child development, emotions, bullying, wellbeing, mental health

  • Christina Cipriano, Ph.D., M.Ed.

    Associate Professor, Yale Child Study Center; Director, Education Collaboratory at Yale
    Expertise: Social and emotional learning (SEL), school-based assessment, universal design for learning (UDL), students with disabilities

  • John Dovidio, Ph.D.

    Carl Iver Hovland Professor Emeritus of Psychology; Professor Emeritus in the Institute for Social and Policy Studies and of Epidemiology
    Expertise: Prejudice, intergroup relations, altruism

  • Abigail Friedman, Ph.D.

    Associate Professor of Public Health (Health Policy)
    Expertise: Tobacco policy, electronic cigarettes, health economics, health policy

  • Cecilia Frometa, Ph.D.

    Assistant Professor of Clinical Child Psychology
    Expertise: Culture, immigration, trauma informed care, school mental health, training coordination

  • Walter S. Gilliam, Ph.D.

    Professor Adjunct in the Child Study Center
    Expertise: Child care and early childhood education, intervention policy analysis; Early childhood mental health consultation, child and family social policy, young child development

  • Megan Goslin, Ph.D.

    Associate Professor of Child Psychology
    Expertise: Trauma, disaster, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

  • Lauretta Grau, Ph.D.

    Research Scientist
    Expertise: Opioid abuse and pain management, HIV/AIDS, health promotion interventions, quality improvement, mixed methods research

  • Jessica D. Hoffmann, Ph.D.

    Assistant Professor in the Child Study Center; Director of Research, Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence
    Expertise: Emotional intelligence, creativity, adolescence, social emotional learning, social climate

  • Marcia C. Inhorn, Ph.D., M.P.H.

    William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs
    Expertise: Medical anthropology, infertility, assisted reproduction, Middle East, Muslim world