
Kiphart Center Staff

Erick Amick
Executive Director, Susan and Richard Kiphart Center for Global Health and Social Development

Robert Chaskin
Faculty Director, Susan and Richard Kiphart Center for Global Health and Social Development, UNESCO Chair in Inclusive Urbanism

Jessica Darrow
Associate Instructional Professor at Crown Family, School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice; Coordinator, Kiphart Scholars Program in Global Health and Social Development

Cristina Gros
Assistant Director, International Programs at Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
Affiliated Faculty
Kiphart Center affiliated faculty are University of Chicago faculty and Other Academic Appointees that are leaders in advancing our knowledge about effective responses to complex social and health problems and training the next generation of professionals and scholars who seek to resolve them. Affiliated faculty can be housed in any department at the University and are actively engaged in Kiphart Center activities.



Baris Ata
Sigmund E. Edelstone Distinguished Service Professor of Operations Management, Booth School of Business




Robert Chaskin
Faculty Director, Susan and Richard Kiphart Center for Global Health and Social Development, UNESCO Chair in Inclusive Urbanism

Jessica Darrow
Associate Instructional Professor at Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice

Gina Fedock
Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice,Mexico, Kenya, Sierra Leone

Angela García
Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice

Deborah Gorman-Smith
Dean & Emily Klein Gidwitz Professor at the University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice

Colleen Grogan
Professor at the University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice

Aniruddha Hazra
Assistant Professor in the Section of Infectious Diseases and Global Health

Aimee Hilado
Assistant Professor at Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice

Leyla Ismayilova
Associate Professor at the University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice




Zhiying Ma
Assistant Professor at University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice

Jeanne Marsh
George Herbert Jones Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice


Reuben Miller
Associate Professor at University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice




Raul Sanchez de la Sierra
Harris School of Public Policy Democratic Republic of the Congo

Haun Saussy
Professor, Department of East Asian Languages & Civilizations and in the Committee on Social Thought


Thomas Talhelm
Associate Professor of Behavioral Science at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Jenny Trinitapoli
Professor, Department of Sociology; Director, Center for International Social Science Research

Alan Zarychta
Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice