Emily Ho
Emily Ho, Ph.D.
Endowed Director of the Moore Family Center for Whole Grain Foods, Nutrition and Preventive Health; Associate Professor and Principal Investigator in the Linus Pauling Institute
Oregon State University
Christine A. Bachrach, Ph.D. Research Professor at the Maryland Population Research Center, University of Maryland
Concepts of culture have undergone dramatic transformations in recent decades, from institutional models that emphasize values, norms and roles, to “tool kit” models that emphasize individuals’ freedom to choose from among many different cultural scripts, values, worldviews, and more. In this talk Dr.
David R. Williams, Ph.D.; Florence Sprague Norman and Laura Smart Norman
Professor of Public Health (Harvard School of Public Health); and Professor of African and African American Studies (Harvard University)
Dr. David R. Williams is internationally recognized as a leading social scientist, enhancing the understanding of the complex ways in which race, racial discrimination, socioeconomic status and religious involvement can affect physical and mental health. The Everyday Discrimination scale that he developed is currently one of the most widely used measures. He is the author of more than 300 scholarly papers in scientific journals and edited collections and has played a visible, national leadership role in raising awareness levels of the problem of health disparities.
Judith Crowell, MD
Professor and Director of Training, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Stony Brook University and Senior Scientist, Judge Baker Children’s Center, Harvard Medical School
Dr. Judith Crowell is a child psychiatrist and researcher with expertise in family relationships, stress and adversity and mental health. Her research includes attachment relationships and relationships and representations across the life span and the impact of attachment and childhood adversity on adult physical and mental health.
Paul Apostolidis, Ph.D.
Professor Apostolidis is Professor and T. Paul Chair of Political Science at Whitman College, Washington.
Dr. Apostolidis’s scholarly research bridges political theory, cultural studies, and the analysis of social movements. His work investigates immigration and labor in the United States and focuses primarily on undocumented Latino day laborers, meatpacking workers, and the worker center movement.
Jacquelynne Eccles, Ph.D., McKeachie/Pintrich Distinguished University Professor of Psychology and Education at the University of Michigan
Jacquelynne S. Eccles is the McKeachie/Pintrich Distinguished University Professor of Psychology and Education at the University of Michigan, as well as a Senior Research Scientist at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. She is Director of the Gender and Achievement Research Program at ISR and editor of Developmental Psychology.
