Rachel Gordon, Ph.D.

Title:	Associate Dean for Research and Administration
Division:	College of Health and Human Sciences
Office Location:	Wirtz Hall 227
Office Phone:	815-753-1891
Email:	rgordon@niu.edu
Pronouns:	she/her/hers/they/them/theirs

Education

• Ph.D., University of Chicago
• M.S., University of Chicago
• B.S., Pennsylvania State University

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Newly Available Publications

• Physical attractiveness. Reference Module in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Psychology (Enrique Neblett and Wendy Troop-Gordon and Rachel A. Gordon).
• Short-and long-term payoffs of early childhood education for reducing inequality. Chapter 12 in The Sage Handbook of Sociology of Education (Mark Berends, Barbara Schneider, and Stephen Lamb and Rachel A. Gordon).
• Variation in Skin Red and Yellow Undertone: Reliability of Ratings and Predicted Relevance for Social Experiences
• Applied Statistics for the Social and Health Sciences - 2nd Edition (Rachel A. Gordon)
• How Well Do Contemporary and Historical Skin Color Rating Scales Cover the Lightness-to-Darkness Continuum? Descriptive Results from Color Science and Diverse Rating Pools (Mariya Adnan Khan, Hai Nguyen, Amelia R. Branigan and Rachel A. Gordon)
• Identifying and Minimizing Measurement Invariance among Intersectional Groups (Rachel A. Gordon, Tianxiu Wang, Hai Nguyen and Ariel Aloe)

Newly Available Presentations

• School and community-based supports for and by Pregnant & Parenting Youth: A Chicago Research-Practice Partnership focused on mentorship and advocacy, Chair of this Invited Panel at the Society for Research on Adolescence Biennial Meeting (April 19, 2024, Chicago, IL)
• Don't Skip Class: Advances in Research on Social Class and Adolescent Development, Chair of this invited panel at the Society for Research on Adolescence Biennial Meeting (April 20, 2024, Chicago, IL)