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Stacey S. Horn, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
College of Education
University of Illinois at Chicago
 
Education--Honors and Distinctions--Research Experience--Teaching and Advising Experience
Administrative and Professional Experience--Professional and Community Service--Publications
Conference Presentations--Professional Memberships--References

EDUCATION

2000 Doctor of Philosophy, Human Development, 4.0 GPA
University of Maryland, College Park
Dissertation topic:  Adolescent Social Reasoning
Specialization:  Developmental Sciences
Adviser:  Dr. Melanie Killen

1992 Master of Arts, Teaching, 4.0 GPA
University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN
Specialization:  Secondary English Education

1990 Bachelor of Arts, Child Development and English, Summa Cum Laude
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

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HONORS AND DISTINCTIONS

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RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

1999 Graduate Research Assistant, Japanese and American Children's Evaluations of Group Exclusion and Deviance, University of Maryland, College Park. (Co-P. I.s: Drs. David Crystal, Melanie Killen, & Hirozumi Watanabe). Duties included: Data entry, management, and analysis.

1997-1999 Graduate Research Assistant, Social Reasoning Regarding Close Relationships: Prejudiced Judgments and Personal Prerogatives.  University of Maryland, College Park (Co-P.I.s: Drs. Melanie Killen & Charles Stangor).  Duties included: Developing survey and interview materials and project manual, recruiting college age participants, collecting data, data analyses.

1998 Graduate Research Assistant, Evaluation Study of Rechov Sumsum@Shara=a Simsim, Children's Television Workshop.  (Co-P.I.s: Drs. Nathan Fox, Melanie Killen & Lewis Leavitt).  This project was an evaluation study of a Sesame Street show aired in the Mid-East during 1998.  Duties on the project included: Developing coding system and project manual, training coders, coding interviews conducted with Israeli and Palestinian children, reliability coding.

1998 Graduate Research Assistant, Social reasoning about group inclusion and exclusion.  National Science Foundation Grant.  University of Maryland, College Park (Co-P.I.s: Drs. Melanie Killen & Charles Stangor).  Duties Included: Developing survey, recruiting participants, collecting data, developing justification coding system, developing project manual, coding surveys, developing reliability coding manual reliability coding, data analyses.

1996-1998 Graduate Research Assistant, Children and adolescent;s evaluations of group inclusion and exclusion.  University of Maryland, College Park (Co-P.I.s: Drs. Melanie Killen & Charles Stangor).  Duties included: Developing interview, conducting interviews with first, fourth and seventh grade students, coding interviews, reliability coding, data entry.

1996 Research Assistant, Board for International and Comparative Studies, Committee on Behavioral and Social Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.

1994-1996 Graduate Research Assistant, Social interactions in preschool classrooms and the development of young children’s conceptions of the personal.
University of Maryland, College Park (Co-P.I.s: Drs. Melanie Killen & Judith Smetana).  Duties included: conducting interviews with preschool children, coding interviews, reliability coding, data entry.

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TEACHING AND ADVISING EXPERIENCE

1996-1999 Graduate Instructor, EDHD 230: Human Development and Societal Institutions.  Full responsibility for teaching.  Three semesters (approx. 33 students per semester).

1997-1999 Adviser (volunteer), College of Letters and Sciences
University of Maryland, College Park.

1993-1995 Liberal Arts and Transfer Advising Specialist, Premajor Advising
College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.

1991-1993 Coordinator of Graduate Services, Graduate School of Education
University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN.

1992 Student Teacher, English/Speech Communications
Roosevelt High School, Minneapolis, MN.

1991 Academic Advisor, Honors Division, College of Liberal Arts
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.

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ADMINISTRATIVE AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1998-2000 Program Coordinator, University Teaching and Learning Program, Center for Teaching Excellence, Office of Undergraduate Studies, University of Maryland, College Park.  Coordinator of professional development certification program for graduate teaching assistants at the University of Maryland.

1997-1999 Coordinator, Graduate Student Teaching and Learning Seminar,
Department of Human Development, University of Maryland,
College Park, MD.

1998 Project Consultant, National Policy Series for United States of America High-School Students: How to Provide An Equal Opportunity for Those Who Have Not Had Equal Opportunity.  American Bar Association, Chicago, IL.

1997-1998 Residential Director, Maryland Summer Center for International Studies
University of Maryland, College Park, MD.

1996 Program Evaluator, E = MC2, Commuter Affairs and Community Service Programs Office, University of Maryland, College Park, MD.

1995-1997 Chairperson, Student Affairs Committee, Department of Human Development
University of Maryland, College Park, MD.

1996 Chairperson, Human Development Graduate Student Association,
Department of Human Development, University of Maryland,
College Park, MD.

1991 Project Assistant, Minnesota Women's Center
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.

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PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE

1991 Accreditation Peer Review Team Member, Mayo High School, North Central Outcomes Endorsement School Improvement Plan, North Central Association of Schools and Colleges, Rochester, MN.

1999 Editorial Reviewer, Journal of Early Education and Development, Special Issue: Moral Development and Education.

1997-present Drop-in and support group facilitator.  Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League (SMYAL), Washington, DC.

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PUBLICATIONS

Journal Articles

Horn, S. S., Killen, M., & Stangor, C. (1999).  The influence of stereotypes on adolescents' moral reasoning. Journal of Early Adolescence, 19, 98-113.

Horn. S. S. (in preparation).  Service-learning in psychology: A situated cognition approach.  University of Maryland, College Park.

Stangor, C., Killen, M., Price, B. S., & Horn, S. S. (in preparation). Racial exclusion in intimate relationships.  University of Maryland, College Park.

Chapter

Killen, M., & Horn, S. S. (1999).  Facilitating children's development about morality, community, and autonomy: A case for service-learning experiences.  In W. van Haaften, T. Wren, & A. Tellings (Eds.),  Moral sensibilities and the education, Volume II:  The schoolchild.  Bemmel (London, Paris): Concorde.

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CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Horn, S. S. (April, 2000).  The influence of group perceptions, group status, and social identity on adolescents’ social reasoning.  Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Adolescence, Chicago, IL.

Killen, M., Price, S. B., Horn, S. S., & Stangor, C. (April, 1999). Social reasoning regarding close relationships: Prejudiced judgments and personal prerogatives.  Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Albuquerque, NM.

Horn, S. S., Killen, M., & Stangor, C. (June, 1998).  Adolescents' evaluations of discrimination in stereotype-activated contexts.  Poster presented at the annual meeting for the American Psychological Society, Washington, D.C.

Horn, S. S., Johnson, S., & Troppe, M. (June, 1998).  Extending learning beyond the classroom walls: Teaching psychology through community service.  Presented at the Institute for the Teaching of Psychology, American Psychological Society, Washington, D.C.

Horn, S. S., Wright, S. & Torney-Purta, J. (June, 1996).  A simulation to teach about cumulative risk in adolescence.  Presented at the Institute for the Teaching of Psychology, American Psychological Society, San Francisco, CA.

Horn, S. S. & Klein, S. (March, 1994).  Business careers for liberal arts majors.  Presented at the annual meeting of the American College Personnel Association, Indianapolis, IN.

Horn, S. S., & Roulis, E.  (April, 1992).  Dialogues for student teaching.  Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Minnesota Association of Teacher Educators.  Brainerd, MN.

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PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

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REFERENCES

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