Faculty Books
Thomas Cook
Professor
617 Library Place, Room 22
Phone: (847) 491-3776
t-cook@northwestern.edu
Office Hours: (Winter 2012)
Monday 3:00-5:00
Areas of Interest
Social Psychology
Social Science/Human Development
Evaluation Research
Education
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Biography
Professor Thomas Cook Ph.D. Stanford University 1967. Areas of interest include Social Psychology, Social Science of Human Development, Evaluation Research, Education. Cook is interested in social science methods for inferring causation, and through this interest he examines issues in evaluation research, primarily in the areas of education and community health.
He has authored or edited several books on these topics, including Quasi-Experimentation Design and Analysis Issues for Field Settings, Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Evaluation Research, and The Foundations of Evaluation Theory. He is also interested in understanding how individual and institutional factors combine to help some adolescents successfully navigate both middle class and ghetto worlds.
Cook was a member of the MacArthur Foundation Network on Successful Adolescence in High Risk Settings, is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and chairs the board of the Russell Sage Foundation in New York. In addition, he has been awarded the Gunnar Myrdal Prize for Science by the American Evaluation Association, the Donald T. Campbell Prize for Innovative Methodology by the Policy Science Organization and a Distinguished Scientist Award from the American Psychological Association.
Cook is the Joan and Sarapta Harrison Professor of Ethics and Justice and a professor in both Psychology and the Program in Human Development and Social Policy at the School of Education and Social Policy as well as being a professor of Sociology.
Courses Taught
SOCIOL 327: Youth and Society
SOCIOL 404: Designs for Descriptive, Causal Research
SOCIOL 405: Research Methods
SOCIOL 476: Special Topics Practice Evaluation
Sociology Robert F. Winch Awards for 2011
Outstanding Graduate Student Lecturer: Marina Zaloznaya
Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Assistants: Fiona Chin and Christopher Carroll
Outstanding Graduate Student Second-Year Paper: Jaimie Morse
Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Published or Presented:
Upcoming Events
Colloquium: Nicola Beisel, PhD - Sociology
February 23, 2012 • 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Culture and Society Workshop: Simone Ispa-Landa, Human Development and Social Policy
February 23, 2012 • 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
