Sara Jaffee Named Class of 1965 Term Professor of Psychology

Sara Jaffee

Sara Jaffee, chair of the Department of Psychology, has been named Class of 1965 Term Professor of Psychology. Jaffee, a developmental psychopathologist, conducts research on children and families experiencing a range of adversities, including poverty, housing insecurity, and violence. She studies the impact of these environments on development across the lifecourse and is interested in factors that support resilience to adversity.

Jaffee also studies whether policies that target structural determinants of health promote positive outcomes for children and families. Her work combines longitudinal, epidemiological methods with experimental and quasi-experimental designs to better understand how risk and protective factors operate in children’s development.

The Class of 1965 Term Chairs were established in 1990 in honor of their 25th Reunion. The Class of 1965 endowed a chair for each of the four undergraduate schools and one in honor of the College for Women.

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