Doug Imig, PhD

LEARNING AND EVALUATION LEAD

Doug leads learning and evaluation for ECAS. Previously, he directed research and evaluation for the Indianola Mississippi Promise Community and was Professor of political science and Director of the Hooks Institute for Social Change at the University of Memphis.

Doug was also a Resident Fellow at the Urban Child Institute and Director of Memphis Data Partners for Children. He served as a Research Fellow at the University of Oklahoma’s Infants, Toddlers, Twos and Threes (IT3) Research Center, and was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. He received his PhD in political science from Duke University and has authored books and articles on children’s advocacy, social movement mobilization, and early childhood interventions. His most recent book, Supporting Young Children of Immigrants and Refugees: The promise and practices of early care and learning, with Scott Imig and Maura Sellers, was published by Routledge Press in April, 2024.