researchers
JACQUELYNNE S. ECCLESDirector, Achievement Research Lab
jseccles@uci.edu
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Jacquelynne Eccles is the Wilbert McKeachie Collegiate Professor of Psychology, Women’s Studies and Education, as well as a research scientist at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. Over the last 30 years, she 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. Much of this work has focused on the adolescent periods of life when health-compromising behaviors such as smoking dramatically increase.
Dr. Eccles has served as the past chair of the Advisory Committee for the Social, Behavioral and Economic Directorate at the National Science Foundation. She is a member of the MacArthur Foundation Network on Successful Adolescent Development and Chair of the MacArthur Foundation on Successful Pathways through Middle Childhood. Dr. Eccles has been the associate editor of Child Development and is co-author of Women and Sex-Roles and Managing to Succeed. She received her Ph.D. in developmental psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1974. Dr. Eccles has served on the faculty at Smith College, the University of Colorado, and the University of Michigan. More about Dr. Eccles' research interests can be found on the RCGD Primary Research Staff page. This information is taken from the biography presented at the White House Conference on Teenagers. |
Meeta BanerjeeResearch Fellow, Achievement Research Lab
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Meeta Banerjee is a postdoctoral research fellow working in the Achievement Research Lab with Dr. Eccles. She is also a Pathways to Adulthood postdoctoral fellow, which is an international postdoctoral fellowship program investigating youth development. Meeta is a native of Flint, Michigan and received her B.A. in Psychology ; her Masters in Social Work from the University of Michigan; and her Ph.D. in Ecological-Community Psychology from Michigan State University in 2012. Her research employs both integrative and ecological frameworks to understand the influence of contextual factors on early and late adolescent developmental trajectories in ethnic minority families. She is especially interested in exploring the interaction between ecological contexts (e.g., schools, families, neighborhoods, racial discrimination, and communities) and racial socialization practices and processes. Moreover, Meeta investigates how these factors are both directly and indirectly related to mental health and educational outcomes in ethnic minority youth.
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Oksana MalanchukResearch Investigator, Achievement Research Lab
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Research interests have centered on social identities, their development, and their outcomes. Recent work has focused on occupational aspirations and identities, looking at the ontogeny of career identities in adolescence, the interplay between occupational aspirations and achievement, as well as their impact on later psychological and behavioral outcomes. Her research in contemporary Ukraine is concentrated on understanding relevant and shifting social identifications, especially among the young. Current research interests focus on the longitudinal study of the socialization of racial/ethnic identity.
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Steve PeckAssistant Research Scientist, Achievement Research Lab
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Steve Peck received his B.A. in Psychology from the California State University, Long Beach in 1985; his M.A. in Experimental Social Psychology from the University of Montana, Missoula in 1990; and his Ph.D. in Personality Psychology from the University of Michigan in 1995. His research interests include the study of adolescent development in context, focusing on the combined influences of content, structure, and processes at the personal (e.g., implicit, explicit, and phenomenological) and environmental (e.g., family, school, peers, and neighborhood) levels. He is also interested in the application of pattern-oriented methodological approaches to the study of person's in context.
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