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Cohler B.A. Thesis Prize Events and Announcements Departmental colloquium series Events News and announcements News archive Contact Apply Give previous next Research in CHD Research in the department explores the social, cultural, psychological, and biological processes of change that vary across time, between individuals, between societies and cultures, and between species. • The Department of Comparative Human Development (CHD) is an interdisciplinary program at the critical edge of thought and research in the social sciences, examining what it means to be human during a contemporary moment marked by rapid social, technological, and ecological change; massive global movements of people and ideas; and wide-ranging forms of inequality. Faculty and students in the Department conduct interdisciplinary, holistic and comparative research and scholarship focused on individual lives within various, changing, and heterogeneous contexts. Drawing on methods and concepts from anthropology, biological and developmental psychology, educational research, sociology, and statistics, Department members are committed to examining humans as simultaneously sociocultural, biological, and psychological beings who change over developmental and historical time. Such perspectives make CHD a unique space for research addressing topics including difference, equality, and power in multicultural societies; the developmental, symbolic and embodied processes involved in learning and socialization; the social shaping of vulnerability and resilience in relation toshifting categories such as gender, race, class, age, sexuality, and ability, among others. Faculty and graduate students conduct research in both US and non-US settings using diverse methods including long-term participant observation, qualitative interviewing, analysis of survey data, experiments, classroom observation, and field research with non-human animals. Events More Events News Eos Trinidad wins Philippine National Book Award Eos Trinidad’s Researching Philippine Realities: A Guide to Qualitative, Quantitative, and Humanities Research won the Philippine National Book Awards’ Best Book on Professions, given by the Nation Zoe Berman receives National Science Dissertation Improvement Award Zoe Berman received a National Science Dissertation Improvement Award for her dissertation research on intergenerational change, memory, and trauma in Rwanda. Spencer Elected as Fellow in American Association for the Advancement of Science Margaret Beale Spencer elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences CHD is seeking applications for our PhD program The Department of Comparative Human Development is actively seeking applications for our PhD program. CHD offers students the opportunity to build a unique research program by integrating training across multiple social science approaches, including sociocultural, medical, and psychological anthropology; biological, cognitive and cultural psychology; sociology; linguistics; statistical methods; and education policy. By receiving deep training from faculty across disciplines, students are able to consolidate multiple theoretical and conceptual frameworks into their scholarship. Students also receive high quality methodological training including theory-driven quantitative, qualitative, and ethnographic courses, and have numerous opportunities to collaborate with faculty on on-going research projects.You can learn more about our graduate program here and apply here .The University of Chicago Division of the Social SciencesMailing Address: 1126 East 59th St. Office 001 Chicago, IL 60637 Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Department of Comparative Human DevelopmentOffice Location: Rosenwald Hall, 3rd Floor 1101 East 58th Street Chicago, IL 60637 © 2020 The University of...