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Nicole Allen is a professor of human and organizational development and chair of the department who studies community responses to gender-based violence, cross-sector community collaboration, and systems and organizational change. She believes that solutions to societal problems require changes across complex systems and organizations as well as the active engagement of communities. Her research aims to identify those needed changes and to think about how to achieve them, with members of society working together to accomplish what cannot be done alone.
Allen joins the Department of Human and Organizational Development at Peabody College after recently serving as professor of psychology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She is excitedabout the opportunity to work with excellent colleagues in a stimulating, interdisciplinary department that fosters opportunities to learn and grow at an outstanding university.
Allen received her Ph.D. and M.A. in ecological community psychology from Michigan State University in 2001 and 1997, respectively, and her B.S. in human development and family studies from Cornell University in 1993.