Alice Frye, MPH, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Alice Frye has an MPH from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Emory University. She is a developmental psychopathologist by training and her overarching goal is to combine in her research endeavors the population level orientation typical of public health with the robust theoretical approach that characterizes developmental psychopathology. She has a long standing interest in the study and remediation of psychopathology among adolescents and emerging adults at risk, and focuses particularly on growth and change in psychopathology and resilience among emerging adults. With respect to specific projects, Dr. Frye worked with Dr. Sumru Erkut in the evaluation of Planned Parenthood of Massachusetts' sexuality education program for middle school students: Get Real. She worked with Dr. Lorraine Cordeiro on a qualitative needs assessment of Cambodian youth and emerging adults in Lowell, Massachusetts, and also to study the unique roles that Cambodian women play in navigating the immigration transition for themselves and their families in Lowell. She also worked with Dr. Nancy Marshall on secondary data analyses of national data on early childhood care influences and outcomes. Dr. Frye speaks Indonesian and studied Mandarin Chinese.

Dr. Frye was a methodologist at the centers and worked with Dr. Allison Tracy on funded projects and provided ad hoc support for study design and statistical analysis to other researchers at the centers. She focused chiefly on quantitative methods, including structural equation approaches, latent growth modeling, mixture modeling, multilevel modeling, and other types of advanced analyses.

Allison J. Tracy

Methodologist and Senior Research Scientist

B.A., Humboldt State University; M.S. and Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
atracy@wellesley[dot]edu

Specialized in latent variable and longitudinal modeling; collaborated with researchers at WCW, ÆÞÓÑÉçÇø College, and other institutions; occasional instructor of advanced workshops in methodology and guest lecturer.

Allison Tracy has over 15 years of experience providing methodological and statistical consultation for researchers in a wide variety of disciplines, research topics, and institutions – academic, applied, and commercial. Her approach to consulting is to translate researchers’ articulated research questions and hypotheses into statistical models and to translate results of these models back into plain English that can be understood by individuals both within and outside academia.

She has technical expertise in a wide range of statistical techniques used in the social sciences, including structural equation modeling, confirmatory factor analysis and MIMIC approaches to measurement, path modeling, regression analysis (e.g., linear, logistic, Poisson), latent class analysis, hierarchical linear models (including growth curve modeling), latent transition analysis, mixture modeling, item response theory, as well as more commonly used techniques drawing from classical test theory (e.g., reliability analysis through Cronbach’s alpha, exploratory factor analysis, uni- and multivariate regression, correlation, ANOVA, etc). She also has expertise in missing data analysis and power analysis. She has a strong background in program evaluation and measurement development. She is currently expanding her expertise to include Rasch modeling and Generalizability Theory approaches to measurement.

Amy Hoffman

Editor in Chief, Women's Review of Books

M.F.A., University of Massachusetts, Amherst
ahoffman@wellesley[dot]edu

Former editor of Women’s Review of Books, providing unique perspectives on literary landscape with reviews of books by and about women.

For more than a dozen years, until winter 2018, Amy Hoffman was editor in chief of the Women’s Review of Books (WRB), which is published by the ÆÞÓÑÉçÇø (WCW) at ÆÞÓÑÉçÇø College, in collaboration with Old City Publishing in Philadelphia, PA. She is a member of the creative nonfiction faculty at . A writer and community activist, she has been an editor at Gay Community News (GCN), South End Press, and the Unitarian Universalist World magazine. Hoffman is the author of three memoirs -- Lies about My Family; An Army of Ex-Lovers: My Life at the Gay Community News; and Hospital Time.

Anita F. Hill, J.D.

Senior Scholar (2007-2008)

Dr. Hill is professor of social policy, law, and women's studies at Brandeis University. During the 2007-2008 academic year she served as a Senior Scholar at the ÆÞÓÑÉçÇø and as a Newhouse Visiting Scholar at ÆÞÓÑÉçÇø College. Her work at ÆÞÓÑÉçÇø involved analyzing the nearly 25,000 pieces of correspondence she received in the wake of her testimony at the confirmation hearing of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas for a project titled "Lessons in the Letters: Learning About Race and Gender From the Private Responses to the Clarence Thomas Confirmation Hearing." She opened the WCW fall 2007 Lunchtime Seminar Series with a presentation on this topic on October 4th at the Centers' Cheever House. Dr. Hill earned her J.D. from Yale University and her B.S. from Oklahoma State University. Her scholarly publications include:

"Choice, Social Structure, and Educational Policy." Race, Markets and Social Structures. 1st ed. Ed. Emma Coleman Jordan. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications, 2007 (forthcoming)

"The Embodiment of Equal Justice Under the Law." Nova Law Review 31. 2 (2007): 1-19. (forthcoming)

"What Difference Will Women Judges Make? Looking Once More at the "Woman Question"." Women and Leadership: The State of Play and Strategies for Change. 1st ed. Ed. Barbara Kellerman and Deborah Rhode. New York: Jossey-Boss, 2007. 1-29. (forthcoming)

"A History of Hollow Promises: How Choice Jurisprudence Fails to Achieve Educational Equality." Michigan Journal of Race & Law 12. 1 (2007): 107-159.

The Scholarly Legacy of A. Leon Higginbotham: Voice, Storytelling and Narrative. Rutgers Law Review, 2001.