Dean Ceballo’s Biography

Rosario (Rosie) Ceballo is dean of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA) and a professor in the Department of Psychology and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Michigan. Dean Ceballo earned her B.A. in psychology from Yale University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in clinical and developmental psychology from the University of Michigan. As a faculty member at the University of Michigan for 26 years, Dean Ceballo previously held several administrative roles, including chair of the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies and associate dean for the social sciences in LSA. Before returning to the University of Michigan as dean of LSA, she served as dean of the College of Arts & Sciences at Georgetown University.

At the University of Michigan, Dean Ceballo has been recognized with the John Dewey Award for outstanding undergraduate instruction, the Harold R. Johnson Diversity Service Award, and the El Primero Award presented by La Casa students. She received the Women in Psychology Leadership Award from the American Psychological Association (APA) and was elected to the APA’s Committee on Socioeconomic Status, serving as chair in the last year of her term.

Dean Ceballo is a nationally recognized, interdisciplinary scholar whose research examines the strengths and resilience of families living in poverty, with a focus on adolescents who experience community violence. In a second line of research, she investigates the experience of infertility and the impact of race- and class-based stereotypes about reproduction on women of color. Using quantitative and qualitative methods, Dean Ceballo has published in high-impact journals across clinical, community, developmental, and feminist psychology fields, and her work has received funding from NSF and NIH.