Robert Chaskin

McCormick Foundation Professor,
The University of Chicago
Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice

The University of Chicago
Crown Family School of Social Work,
969 E. 60th Street
Chicago, IL 60637

Robert J. Chaskin is the McCormick Foundation Professor and Deputy Dean for Strategic Initiatives and holds the UNESCO Chair for Inclusive Urbanism at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration. He leads the school’s international efforts. Professor Chaskin, along with colleagues at the Department of Applied Social Sciences at Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), designed an exchange program that serves as a platform for students from both schools to learn from one another. The program focuses on the challenges of urbanization and migration and now also includes students and faculty from Peking University as part of the recently launched Tripartite Collaboration for Advancing Social Work in China.

For more information, visit professor Chaskin's profile at the University of Chicago, Crown Family School of Social Work


Zhiying Ma

Assistant Professor
Social Service Administration

969 E. 60th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
Office: BE1

Professor Ma currently teaches at the University of Chicago's School of Social Service Administration. She is a cultural and medical anthropologist and a scholar of disability studies. Her work in general examines how cultural, politico-economic, and technological factors shape the design and implementation of social policies, and how national policies and global development initiatives in turn impact health in/equity, vulnerability, and rights, with a focus on contemporary China.

For more information, visit Professor Ma's profile at the University of Chicago's Social Service Administration.