Jill V. Hamm, Ph.D.

Jill Hamm is Associate Professor of Educational Psychology, Measurement and Evaluation in the School of Education. Her interests include adolescent development, specifically peer relations. She has received funding from the National Science Foundation and currently is funded by the Spencer Foundation to study the role of peer relations in early adolescents’ learning and achievement. She also serves as PI of Project REAL (National Center for Research on Rural Education Support), a longitudinal intervention research project that focuses on the academic, social, and behavioral adjustment of early adolescents in rural settings.

Recent Publications:
Hamm, J.V. & Faircloth, B.S. (2005). The peer ecology of mathematics classroom belonging. Journal of Early Adolescence, 25, 345-366.

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.

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. (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.

Jill V. Hamm
Associate Professor
School of Education
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
CB 3500
101 Peabody Hall
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3500

Tel: 919.843.7877
E-Mail: jhamm@email.unc.edu