BIOGRAPHY

Marty Wyngaarden Krauss, Ph.D.

Title: Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and John Stein Professor of Disability Research
Affiliation: Brandeis University

Biography

Marty Wyngaarden Krauss, Ph.D. is the John Stein Professor of Disability Research at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management, with an appointment in the Sociology Department at Brandeis University. She is also the Provost and Senior Vice-President for Academic Affairs of Brandeis University.

From 1993-1999, she served as the Chairperson of the Massachusetts Governor's Commission on Mental Retardation. In 2000-2001, she was a member of the National Research Council's Committee on Disability Determination for Mental Retardation, which is an advisory board to the Social Security Administration.

Her research focuses on the social and familial impacts of developmental disabilities, particularly with respect to the adaptation of their families over the life span and the development of community-based programs. From 1988-1998, she was co-director of a ten-year study of families of adults with mental retardation, who lived at home with their aging parents. This field of research is now extended with a five-year grant to conduct the largest study ever conducted on the caregiving challenges experienced by families of adolescents and adults with autism. Professor Krauss was also the co-director of a national study of health care for children with special health care needs.

Professor Krauss teaches Survey Research Methods and Disability Policy Issues at the Heller School and a course on the Sociology of Disability offered by the Sociology Department.

In 2001, she received the Distinguished Research Award from the Arc-NS and in 2000, she received the Christian Pueschel Memorial Research Award from the National Down Syndrome Congress.