UNC School of Education

Associate Professor of Educational Psychology

T 919.843.7877
F 919.962.1533
jhamm@email.unc.edu

115 Peabody Hall
CB 3500

An educational and developmental psychologist, associate professor Jill Hamm teaches master’s level pre-service teachers, doctoral students in the Educational Psychology, Measurement and Evaluation Program and secondary education students in the Master of Arts in Teaching Program.

Hamm has co-directed Spencer Foundation and National Science Foundation-funded research projects on the classroom learning and experiences of children and early adolescents, and was recently awarded a Spencer Foundation major grant to continue this research with adolescents making the transition to high school.

For more than 10 years, Hamm has been a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Youth & Adolescence and through 2006, serves as an editorial board member of the Journal of Adolescent Research. At Carolina, she currently serves as the School of Education advisor to the tenure-line assistant professors.

• Ph.D. 1996 - University of Wisconsin, Educational Psychology
• M.S. 1993 - University of Wisconsin, Educational Psychology
• B.A. 1989 - Wake Forest University, Psychology

• Adolescents' Peer Relations
• Adolescents' School Adjustment
• Research Overview

• Adolescent Development
• Educational Psychology

1998, Named to the University of Illinois Incomplete List of Teachers Rated as Excellent by their Students (based on undergraduate student evaluations)

• 2005-2009 Project REAL (Rural Early Adolescent Learning). Institute for Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education
• 2006-2008, The Influences on and Effects of Growth in Mathematics Conceptual Understanding During Middle and High School. Spencer Foundation Major Grant.
• 2004-2006, The Voices of North Carolina's Youth: A Study of Identity in Geographic Locale. UNC-CH University Research Council Award
• 2001, A Developmental and Contextual Perspective on Identity and Learning in Reform-Oriented Mathematics Classrooms, National Science Foundation, Research on Learning in Education
• 1999, Learning to Become Mathematicians: Are We Bridging the Gender Gap? Spencer Foundation Small Grant
• 1997, Individual and Contextual Influences on Adolescents' Coping with Cultural Diversity, Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI - APA Division 9)

• Editorial Board Member: Journal of Adolescent Research, Journal of Youth and Adolescence
• 2001, Review Panel Chair (Peer Relations) for the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence

Hamm, J.V. & Faircloth, B.S. (2005). The peer ecology of mathematics classroom belonging. Journal of Early Adolescence, 25.

Way, N. & Hamm, J.V. (Eds.). (2005). The meanings and experiences of friendship in adolescence. In New Directions in Child and Adolescent Development Monograph Series. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Hamm, J.V. & Faircloth, B.S. (2005). The role of adolescents’ close friendships in school belonging. In Way, N. & Hamm, J.V. (Eds.), The meanings and experiences of friendship in adolescence. To appear in New Directions in Child and Adolescent Development Monograph Series. San Francisco: Jossey Bass.

Hamm, J.V., Brown, B.B., & Heck, D.J. (2005). Bridging the ethnic divide: Student and school characteristics in African American, Asian American, European American, and Latino adolescents’ cross-ethnic friend nomination. Journal of Research on Adolescence. 15(1), 21-46.

Faircloth, B.S. & Hamm, J.V. (2005). Student perceptions of school experiences and their academic success. Journal of Youth and Adolescence.

Hamm, J.V. & Perry, M.P. (2002). Learning mathematics in first grade: On whose authority? Journal of Educational Psychology, 94, 126-137.

Hamm, J.V. (2001). Barriers and bridges to positive cross-race peer relations: African American and White parents' socialization beliefs and practices. Youth & Society, 33, 62-98.

Hamm, J.V. & Coleman, H.L.K. (2001). Adolescents' strategies for coping with cultural diversity: Variability and youth outcomes. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 30, 281-303.

Hamm, J.V. (2000). Do birds of a feather flock together? Individual, contextual, and relationship bases for African American, Asian American, and European American adolescents' selection of similar friends. Developmental Psychology, 36(2), 209-219.

Hamm, J.V. (1998). Negotiating the maze: Adolescents' cross-ethnic peer relations in ethnically diverse schools. In L. Meyer, M. Grenot-Scheyer, B. Harry, H.S. Park, & I. Schwartz (Eds.), Making friends: The influences of culture and development (pp. 241-260). New York: Paul Brookes.