SESP Faculty Elected to the National Academy of Education

In 2021-2022, Northwestern University professors Megan Bang, Jonathan Guryan, and Brian Reiser were elected to the prestigious National Academy of Education for their stellar contributions to education scholarship and research. It is the first time in school history that three faculty members were elected in the same year. The School of Education and Social Policy now has 15 NAEd members.

Megan Bang (2021), Professor of Learning Sciences and of Psychology  

Jonathan Guryan (2021), Lawyer Taylor Professor of Education and Social Policy  

Brian J. Reiser (2021), Professor of Learning Sciences  

Cynthia E. Coburn (2020), Professor of Education and Social Policy  

Kirabo Jackson (2020), Abraham Harris Professor of Education and Social Policy  

Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach (2019), Margaret Walker Alexander Professor of Human Development and Social Policy and Director of the Institute for Policy Research  

David Figlio (2017), School Dean and Orrington Lunt Professor of Education and Social Policy  

Morton O. Schapiro (2017), Professor of Economics and President of Northwestern  

James P. Spillane (2014), Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Professor in Learning and Organizational Change  

P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale (2013), Frances Willard Professor Emerita of Human Development and Social Policy  

Douglas L. Medin (2012), Professor Emeritus of Psychology and of Education and Social Policy  

Penelope Peterson (2011), Former School Dean and Professor Emerita of Education and Social Policy  

Carol D. Lee (2007), Professor Emerita of Education and Social Policy and of African American Studies; NAEd President (2021–25)  

Larry V. Hedges (1996), Board of Trustees Professor of Statistics and of Education and Social Policy  

Uri Wilensky (2022),Lorraine Morton Professor of Learning Sciences and Computer Science 

Miriam Sherin (2022),Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education andtheAlice Gabrielle Twight Professor of Learning Sciences. 

Allan Collins (1992), Professor Emeritus of Education and Social Policy