College of Education and Human Development

Family Social Science

Horn to lead Family Social Science

A professor.
Stacey Horn

Stacey Horn has been named Head of the University of Minnesota’s Department of Family Social Science and will join the Department August 17. The U of M alumna returns to Minnesota from the University of Illinois at Chicago where she was chair of the Department of Educational Psychology, a professor of Educational and Developmental Psychology, and an affiliate faculty member in UIC’s Community Psychology and Prevention Research.

She received a bachelor’s degree in Child Development and English (Summa Cum Laude) from the University of Minnesota, a master’s in English (teaching) from the University of St. Thomas, and a doctoral degree from the University of Maryland College Park.

A former high school English teacher with 30 years of experience working with young people, Horn’s current research focuses on prejudice related to sexual orientation and gender identity, as well as bias-motivated bullying among adolescents. Her applied and evaluation research focuses on how to create safer and more welcoming schools for all young people. She has served as chair of the Equity and Justice Committee for the Society for Research in Child Development, and is a past-chair of the Governing Board for the Illinois Safe Schools Alliance.

Horn is a co-editor and contributor to the ground-breaking book, Sexuality, gender identity and schooling: The nexus of research, practice, and policy.  She also co-edited Elsevier Publishing’s two-volume set, Equity and justice in developmental sciences: Implications for young people, families, and communities, that collected scholarly work on how equity and justice affect development and developmental outcomes, and what scholars have learned about mitigating the developmental consequences of inequity, inequality, and injustice.

She has published articles in numerous journals including Developmental Psychology, Journal of Social Issues, Journal of Youth and Adolescence, Cognitive Development, and Equity and Excellence in Education. She has also served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Youth and Adolescence, the International Journal of Behavioral Development, and the Journal of Gay and Lesbian Youth.

Horn has been honored for her work with the 2018 Social Policy Book Award from the Society for Research on Adolescence and the 2017 University Scholar Award from UIC. She is also a past recipient of the Wayne F. Placek Award from the American Psychological Foundation, the Outstanding Dissertation Award from Division 7 (Developmental) from the American Psychological Association, and the Outstanding Youth Scholar award from the University of Maryland Alumni Association.