Dean's Distinguished Speaker Series - Margaret Beale Spencer, Ph.d
Margaret Beale Spencer, Ph.D., is the Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor Emerita and the Marshall Field IV Professor Emerita of Urban Education in the Department of Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago. A developmental psychologist, she is also an alumna of the Committee on Human Development at the University of Chicago.
Before returning to Chicago, Margaret was the endowed Board of Overseers Professor and Director of the Interdisciplinary Studies of Human Development (ISHD) Program and faculty member in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania (Psychology in Education Division). Additionally, she was Director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Health Achievement Neighborhood Growth and Ethnic Studies (CHANGES), and also guided, as its inaugural director, the W. E. B. Du Bois Collective Research Institute. Leading the noted efforts and continuing to frame her scholarship, Spencer’s Phenomenological Variant of Ecological Systems Theory (P-VEST) provides an identity-focused cultural ecological perspective which frames her gender, race, culture and context acknowledging program of human development research. Recognizing the universality of human vulnerability, the theory addresses resiliency, identity, and competence formation processes for diverse humans situated both in the United States and abroad.
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