Anna Gassman-Pines is Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Psychology and Neuroscience at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. She is also Faculty Fellow of Duke’s Center for Child and Family Policy. Gassman-Pines received her BA with distinction in Psychology from Yale University, where she was an Affiliate of the Bush Center for Child Development and Social Policy. She received her PhD in Community and Developmental Psychology from New York University. Her research focuses on low-wage work, family functioning, and young child behavior, and on the effects of anti-poverty policies on child and maternal well-being in low-income families.
She has received awards for both research and teaching, including a Changing Faces of American Young Scholars Award from the Foundation for Child Development and the Sanford School of Public Policy’s Richard A. Stubbing Teacher Mentor Award.  Her research has also been funded by the National Science Foundation, National Institute of Mental Health, and the American Psychological Foundation.