Welcome to the Center for Community Research & Education! Founded in 2020, the center’s mission is to serve the faculty and students of Lewis University and our local community through evaluation and research projects that investigate and respond to local social and educational challenges.
Dr. Hannah Klein, Director – is an assistant professor in the Justice, Law, and Public Safety Studies Department. Her research interests focus on prevention and intervention for delinquency, gangs, and gun violence with special attention on the role of adversity and trauma in those outcomes. A majority of her research portfolio includes output and outcome evaluations, using mixed methods approaches. Dr. Klein has developed several research partnerships with local nonprofits providing evaluation services to ensure the preventive actions are successful.
Contact Dr. Klein at hklein1@lewisu.edu or (815)836-5368