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Jeannette Colyvas

Jeannette Colyvas

  • Professor, Human Development and Social Policy
  • Professor, Learning Sciences
  • Professor and Executive Board Member, Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)
  • Professor (by courtesy), Department of Sociology and MORS, Kellogg School of Management
  • Faculty Affiliate, Institute for Policy Research
  • Director of Undergraduate Programs, School of Education and Social Policy

Contact

j-colyvas@northwestern.edu
Annenberg Hall, 2120 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208
Website

Academic Area

Learning Sciences
Human Development and Social Policy

Research Interests

Organizational emergence, persistence and change; diffusion, implementation, and institutionalization; institutions and networks; innovation and entrepreneurship; comparing public, private, and non-profit forms of organizing; government-university-industry interfaces; public and private science.

Biography

Education

  •  PhD, Stanford University, 2007
  • MA, Sociology, MA, East Asian Studies

Awards and Honors

  • 2022 – Visiting Fellow, American Bar Foundation
  • 2018 – Honor Roll recipient for Northwestern undergraduate teaching, Northwestern Associated Student Government
  • 2017 – School of Education and Social Policy Teacher of the Year
  • 2016 – Academic Leadership Program Fellow, Committee on Institutional Cooperation
  • 2015 – Visiting Fellow, American Bar Foundation
  • 2012 – Northwestern Multicultural Student Affairs Faculty Recognition
  • 2011 – Honor Roll recipient for Northwestern undergraduate teaching, Northwestern Associated Student Government
  • 2010 – School of Education and Social Policy Teacher of the Year
  • 2007 – Honor Roll recipient for Northwestern undergraduate teaching, Northwestern Associated Student Government.

Selected Publications

Colyvas, Jeannette A. and Eleanor Anderson (Under Review).  “Levels, Axes, Quadrants, and Fractals: Theorizing Institutionalization and Deinstitutionalization for Multi-Level Causal Analysis and Measurement.”

Yung, Vincent and Jeannette A. Colyvas (Forthcoming).  “Munging The Ghosts in The Machine: Coded Bias and the Craft of Wrangling Archival Data” The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Machine Learning., edited by Christian Borch and Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Yung,Vincent,  Jeannette A. Colyvas, and Hokyu Hwang (Forthcoming).  “Quality Control for Quality Concepts:  Wrangling with Theory and Data Wrangling as Theorizing.” The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Machine Learning, edited by Christian Borch and Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

McCambly, Heather and Jeannette A. Colyvas (2023). Dismantling or disguising racialization: Defining grantmaking roles and outcomes in higher education policy systems.  Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. 33 (2), 203-216. (featured article, Editor’s Choice:  https://academic.oup.com/jpart/pages/editors-choice; also featured in Virtual Special Issue on Framing the Study of Racism, Power, and Inequality in Public Administration).

McCambly, Heather and Jeannette A. Colyvas (2022). Disrupting or Preserving Privilege? The Design and Causal Effects of Frames in Inequalities Grantmaking in Higher Education. Review of Higher Education 46 (1).

Colyvas, Jeannette A., Kaisa Snellman, and Vincent Yung (2022). “Scientific Imprints, Commercial Footprints: The Paradox of Resource in the Production of Science and Scientists.” Proceedings of the Academy of Management. (1) 179782022.

Anderson, Eleanor and JeannetteA.  Colyvas (2021). What Sticks and Why? A MoRe Institutional Framework for Education Research. Under Review.

Hwang Hokyu; and Jeannette A. Colyvas (2020). Constructed Actors and Constitutive Institutions for a Contemporary World, Academy of Management Review, 46: 214 – 219. http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/amr.2020.0418

Hwang, Hokyu and Jeannette A. Colyvas (2020). Ontology, Levels of Society, and Degrees of Generality: Theorizing Actors as Abstractions in Institutional Theory. Academy of Management Review 45 (3):   570-595.

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (2020). Review of the SBIR and STTR Programs at the Department of Energy. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/25674. (Committee Chaired by Maryann Feldman and Scott Stern).