P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale

Northwestern University

Frances Willard Professor Emerita, Human Development and Social Policy Program; Vice Provost for Academics

P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale is the Frances Willard Professor Emerita of Human Development and Social Policy in the School of Education and Social Policy (SESP) and Faculty Fellow Emerita at the Institute for Policy Research (IPR), Northwestern University. She currently serves as Strategic Advisor to Northwestern's Institute for Innovations in Developmental Sciences (DevSci): Healthier, Earlier. She was Northwestern's Associate Provost for Faculty and Vice Provost for Academics from 2013-2020. Chase-Lansdale is an expert on the interface between multidisciplinary research and social policy for children and families. She is a former American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)/Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) Congressional Science Fellow, as well as the first developmental psychologist to be tenured in a public policy school in the United States. She was also the founding director for seven years of Cells to Society (C2S): The Center on Social Disparities and Health at IPR. Chase-Lansdale's research addresses family and program strengths that lead to children's positive social and educational outcomes in the context of economic hardship. Specific topics include two-generation education interventions for parents and children, early childhood education, college promise programs, workforce training, family well-being, parent-child relationships, mothers' employment, welfare reform, and immigration. Chase-Lansdale is a fellow in the American Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological Science. She is the recipient of the Society for Research on Adolescence (SRA) Social Policy Award as well as the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) Award for Distinguished Contributions to Public Policy for Children. In addition, Chase-Lansdale received a grant award from the Foundation for Child Development to mentor scholars of color at all levels. In 2020, the Northwestern Provost established the P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale Undergraduate Summer Research Grant in Social Policy for Children and Families, awarded annually to a student in honor of Chase-Lansdale's service to the Northwestern University. Chase-Lansdale served as a member and then Vice Chair of the Harvard University Board of Overseers as well as Chair of the Visiting Committee of the Harvard Graduate School of Education.. She was also a member of inaugural cohort (2012) of the Aspen Institute's Ascend Fellowship, designed to bring innovative leaders together to promote a two-generation approach in policy, practice, research, and philanthropy. Chase-Lansdale received her A.B., magna cum laude, from Harvard University and Radcliffe College in 1974, her PhD in Developmental Psychology from the University of Michigan in 1981, and she completed the Advanced Management Program at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management in 2016.