Rate My Professor Laurie Chassin

Laurie Chassin is Regents Professor Emerita in the Department of Psychology at Arizona State University. She received her B.A. in Psychology from Brown University in 1971, M.S. in Psychology from Columbia University in 1973, M.Phil. in Clinical Psychology from Teachers College in 1976, and Ph.D. from Teachers College, Columbia University in 1977. She completed a clinical psychology internship at Manhattan Children's Psychiatric Center from 1973 to 1974 and a postdoctoral fellowship in the NIMH-funded training program at Indiana University from 1977 to 1978. Chassin began her academic career as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Indiana University in 1978-1979, followed by Assistant Professor positions at Arizona State University from 1979 to 1982 and the University of Missouri-Columbia from 1982 to 1984. She returned to ASU as Associate Professor in 1984, was promoted to Professor in 1988, and named Regents Professor in 2007, a position she held until 2023. During her tenure, she served as Director of Clinical Training from 1999 to 2004, Director of Graduate Studies through 2020, and Interim Director of Graduate Studies in Fall 2022.

Chassin's research examines the developmental trajectories, familial transmission, and etiology of substance use disorders, with a focus on alcohol, tobacco, and drug use from adolescence to adulthood, including studies of children of alcoholics and intergenerational patterns. She has directed longitudinal projects such as the longest-running U.S. study of cigarette smoking trajectories, tracking over 8,500 participants since 1980, and multi-site investigations of juvenile offenders. Her scholarship includes more than 140 peer-reviewed publications, among them 'The relation of parent alcoholism to adolescent substance use: A longitudinal follow-up study' (Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 1996, with Curran, Hussong, & Colder), 'Trajectories of Alcohol and Drug Use and Dependence from adolescence to adulthood: The effects of familial alcoholism and personality' (Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 2004, with Flora & King), and 'Multiple trajectories of smoking and the intergenerational transmission of smoking' (Health Psychology, 2008, with Presson et al.). Chassin has secured continuous NIH funding since 1979, exceeding $12 million, and mentored 85 scientists via her NIAAA-funded training grant since 1987. She has held associate editor roles for the Journal of Abnormal Psychology/Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science (2011-2023) and Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, served on NIH and NIDA panels, and earned honors including Phi Beta Kappa (1970), ASU Alumni Association Faculty Achievement Research Award (2006), Regents Professorship (2007), and Robert Cairns Capstone Lecture Award (2017).