Rosario Ceballo

Rosario (Rosie) Ceballo is Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences. She is also appointed as a Professor of Psychology and an affiliate of the Women’s and Gender Studies program at Georgetown University. Dr. Ceballo received her B.A. in Psychology from Yale University and her Ph.D. in Clinical and Developmental Psychology, as well as a Graduate Certificate in Women’s Studies, from the University of Michigan. She came to Georgetown after being on the faculty at the University of Michigan for 26 years. While at Michigan, she served as Chair of the Women’s and Gender Studies Department and as Associate Dean for the Social Sciences in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts.

Her research relies on a resilience framework to investigate how contextual aspects of living in poverty, such as exposure to community violence, influence children and adolescents’ academic and psychological functioning. Using quantitative and qualitative methods, her most recent work focuses on Latino families and examines after-school activity participation, parent-child relationships and Latino cultural values as risk and protective factors. A second area of research investigates the experience of infertility among racial/ethnic minority women and examines how women cope with race- and class-based stereotypes about reproduction. Dr. Ceballo has published extensively across clinical, community, developmental and feminist psychology journals and has received funding from NSF and NIH for her work.