Dean Ana Mari Cauce
Dean, College of Arts & Sciences, University of WashingtonAbout Dean Ana Mari Cauce
Ana Mari Cauce, Earl R. Carlson Professor of Psychology, joined the faculty of Arts of Sciences at the University of Washington in 1986. She completed her undergraduate degree, with majors in English and Psychology at the University of Miami, and her Ph.D. in Clinical/Community Psychology at Yale University. She holds a joint faculty appointment in American Ethnic Studies, and secondary appointments in the Department of Womens Studies, Latin American Studies, and the College of Education. Her previous administrative positions include Chair of the Department of American Ethnic Studies and the Department of Psychology, Director of the UW Honors Program, and Executive Vice Provost. Her term as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences began in April 2008.
Throughout her career Dean Cauce has been an active teacher and mentor to scores of undergraduate and graduate students. Her students have included winners of the Guthrie Senior Thesis award in Psychology, the Office of Minority Affairs (OMA) Vice Presidential Award, and Presidential Medalists. She is the recipient of the University of Washington Distinguished Teaching Award and continues to teach every summer in the OMA Summer Transition Program.
Dean Cauce is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Society. Her primary area of research focuses on competence and problem behavior among adolescents, especially those growing up in at-risk environments, including youth from ethnic minority backgrounds, and homeless youth. Her work in this area has been recognized with the Excellence in Research Award from the American Psychological Association, the Dalmas Taylor Distinguished Contribution Award from the American Psychological Association, and the Distinguished Contribution Award from the Society for Community Research and Action. She is presently Co-Principal Investigator on the “Familias” study which is examining social and cultural factors affecting Mexican American families and their early adolescent children.
She also conducts research and interventions focusing on increasing the diversity of the academic labor force in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) disciplines, serving as Principal Investigator on the University of Washington NSF ADVANCE grant and on the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Maximizing the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering, which produced Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering.
A recipient of the National Institute of Mental Health’s (NIMH) “FIRST” Award for Young Investigators, Cauce’s research has been funded by the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Sloan Foundation, and the W.T. Grant Foundation. She recently (2006) completed a term as president of the Society for Community Research and Action and has served as an Associate Editor of the American Psychologist, Child Development, and the American Journal of Community Psychology (see The Seattle Times) .
