Sandra R. Waxman
Department of Psychology

Sandra R. Waxman (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania), Professor of Psychology, specializes in early language acquisition and conceptual organization. She has written extensively on conceptual development in children and early word learning. She has served as panel member and ad hoc reviewer for the National Institute of health and as external reviewer for the national Science Foundation. She serves orhas served on the editorial board of Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, Psychological Bulletin, Society for research in Child development Monographs, Cognitive Development and the Journal of Cognition and Culture. Waxman works closely with a team of researchers at the Laboratoire de Science Cognitive et Psycholinguistic at EHESS/ENS. She, and her collaborator Jeffredy Lidz from the Linguistics department, will spend part of academic year 2003-04 in Paris working on a comparative study involving French and English word acquisition. This study is supported by both the LSCP and a grant from the NIH.

s-waxman@northwestern.edu