Ruby Mendenhall

Assistant Professor

Office: 339 Lincoln Hall
Phone: (217) 333-2528
Email: rubymen@uiuc.edu
Field of Study: Family, housing, Economic Mobility
PhD: Northwestern University


She received her Ph.D. in Human Development and Social Policy from Northwestern University in 2004. Her dissertation was on the Gautreaux Assisted Housing Program, Black Women in Gautreaux’s Housing Desegregation Program: The Role of Neighborhoods and Networks in Economic Independence.