Stephen Raudenbush is a Senior Fellow at NORC at the University of Chicago, Lewis-Sebring Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago, and Chairman of the Committee on Education. He is a leading scholar on quantitative methods for studying child and youth development within social settings such as classrooms, schools, and neighborhoods. Raudenbush is best known for his work on developing hierarchical linear models, with broad applications in the design and analysis of longitudinal and multilevel research.
Raudenbush has been the past Scientific Director of the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods, a study of how family, neighborhood and school settings shape the academic learning, social development, mental health and exposure to violence of children growing up in Chicago.
In addition, Raudenbush has authored and co-authored several articles on experimental design in education and an authoritative book on analytic methods for multilevel data.
Raudenbush has made major contributions to education research. In 2006 and 2008 he was the recipient of the American Educational Research Association award for distinguished contributions to educational research. In 2009 Raudenbush was awarded a Doctor Honoris Causa, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (K.U. Leuven) by the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences in Leuven, Belgium.
He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Spencer Foundation Board of Directors member and serves on the editorial board of the American Journal of Sociology. He was past chair of the National Academy Sciences Committee on the Impact of Mobility.