Faculty and Staff
| Faculty Affiliates of the Brandeis Lifespan Initiative on Healthy Aging (LIHA) | ||
|---|---|---|
| NAME/TITLE | PRIMARY AFFILIATION | INTERESTS |
| Rosalind C. Barnett Senior Scientist |
Women's Studies Research Center |
Education; Career planning; Work-place policies; Sex differences |
| Sarita Bhalotra Associate Professor |
Heller School for Social Policy and Management | Lifestyle interventions; Racial and ethnic disparities in health |
| Christine Bishop Atran Professor of Labor Economics |
Heller School for Social Policy and Management |
Health economics; Economics of long-term care; Economics of aging |
| Ann Bookman Adjunct Senior Lecturer |
Heller School for Social Policy and Management | Work and family policy; Aging-friendly communities; Community engagement |
| Wendy Cadge Associate Professor |
Sociology | Religion and spirituality in relation to health and healing |
| Peter Conrad Harry Coplan Professor of Social Sciences |
Sociology | Medicalization of aging and aging-related conditions |
| Janet Giele Professor |
Heller School for Social Policy and Management | Women's changing roles; Aging and life course; Family policy |
| Margaret Gullette Resident Scholar |
Women's Studies Research Center | Midlife; Ageism; Social construction of the midlife; Cultural studies of aging |
| Angela Gutchess Assistant Professor |
Psychology/Neuroscience | Age and cultural effects on memory and social processes; Behavioral and neuroimaging methods |
| James Haber Abraham and Etta Goodman Professor of Biology |
Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center | Cell senescence; Telomere maintenance |
| Derek Isaacowitz Associate Professor |
Psychology | Attention; Emotion regulation; Well-being; Successful aging |
| Margie Lachman LIHA Director & Minnie and Harold Fierman Professor of Psychology |
Psychology | Social and behavioral determinants of health inequalities; Memory aging; Well- being in early and middle adulthood |
| Sarah Lamb Professor |
Anthropology | Anthropology of aging; Immigrant and transnational communities; South Asia |
| Blake LeBaron Abram L. and Thelma Sachar Professor |
International Business School | Long range portfolio/wealth dynamics; Retirement planning and decisions; Finance |
| Walter Leutz Associate Professor |
Heller School for Social Policy and Management | Supportive services for healthy aging; Interdependence; Empowerment |
| Laura Lorenz Senior Research Associate and Lecturer |
Heller School for Social Policy and Management | Disability; Rehabilitation; Military and veterans health; Healthcare management |
| Lisa M. Lynch Dean & Maurice B. Hexter Professor of Social and Economic Policy |
Heller School for Social Policy and Management | Labor economics; Organizational innovation; Applied microeconometrics |
| Elizabeth Markson Visiting Scholar |
Women's Studies Research Center | Older women in feature films; Stereotypes of age and gender |
| Michael Marr Assistant Professor |
Biology | Mechanisms of gene expression; Longevity and health span |
| Elizabeth Merrick Senior Scientist and Lecturer |
Heller School for Social Policy and Management | Mental health; Alcohol and substance use; Health behaviors; Chronic disorders; Access to services |
| Tatjana Meschede Senior Research Associate and Lecturer |
Heller School for Social Policy and Management | Economic security and risk; Housing |
| Gregory Petsko Gyula and Katica Tauber Professor of Biochemistry and Chemistry |
Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center | Neurodegenerative diseases; Parkinson's and Alzheimer's Diseases |
| Nicolas Rohleder Assistant Professor |
Psychology | Stress exposure and cumulative organ damage; Stress and accelerated aging |
| Robert Sekuler Louis and Frances Salvage Professor |
Psychology/Neuroscience | Visual perception and memory; Navigation of complex environments; Age-related changes in cognitive function |
| Sharon Sokoloff Director of BOLLI |
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Brandeis (BOLLI) | Promoting quality of life; Cognitive vitality; Combating ageism |
| Patricia Tun Adjunct Associate Professor |
Psychology | Cognitive processes and aging; Comprehension and memory for speech; Executive control processes |
| Arthur Wingfield Nancy Lurie Marks Professor of Neuroscience |
Psychology/Neuroscience | Language, Memory, and Adult Aging |
| Leslie Zebrowitz Manuel Yellen Professor of Social Relations |
Psychology | Age-related stereotypes; Social and neural mechanisms of trait impressions |