Center Director
Sandra Waxman, PhD.
Waxman is the Louis W. Menk Chair in Psychology, a Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research, and a founder of Innovations in Developmental Science at Northwestern University. Waxman adopts a developmental, cross-linguistic and cross-cultural approach to identify what cognitive and linguistic capacities are available to infants and young children from the very start, and how these are shaped by their experience. Her work serves as a springboard for promoting positive developmental outcomes in all children.
Dr. Waxman is the recipient of awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Cattell Foundation and federal funding agencies (NIH; NSF). She is founding co-editor of the Annual Review of Developmental Science. Committed to sharing developmental science with policy-makers and the public, she is also a member of the steering committee of the Society of Research in Child Development’s Social Policy Report. Her work appears in numerous scientific journals and the media.
Professor Waxman plans to accept an incoming PhD student for Summer 2023. Apply through the Northwestern TGS website.
Our Team
RAs
RAs
Staff
Staff
Staff
Jen Marino
Postdocs and Graduate Students
Deniz Atik, PhD Student
Alison Lobo, PhD Student
Research Assistants
Melany Morales
Emily Yang
Matthew McGrory
Jackie Cantu Balmaceda
Cecilia Nam
Megan Gonzalez
Kayla Fortis
Leah Simon
Madeline Friedman
Feiya Sally Wang
Sophie Perel
Leticia Sukman Demello
Ella Galvin
Amritha Anupindi
