Faculty Member In:
Department of Sociology

Expertise:
Child Care Policy
Demographics
Early Childhood Education
Impact of Public Policy on Families
Pre-School/After-School Programs
Social Policy
Welfare Policy

Rachel A. Gordon is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a faculty member of the Institute of Government and Public Affairs (IGPA) at the University of Illinois. She has a B.S. in psychology from Pennsylvania State University, an MPP and PhD in public policy from the University of Chicago, and received pre-doctoral training in demography and post-doctoral experience in work-family research at the NORC Research Centers.

At IGPA, Dr. Gordon directs the Illinois Family Impact Seminars, a series of briefings for state legislators on family policy issues that is part of the Policy Network for Family Impact Seminar based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In the sociology department, Gordon regularly teaches second graduate statistics course, and recently published book from Routledge on Regression Analysis for the Social Sciences.