Cecile Guin, PhD, LCSW

Cecile Guin, PhD, LCSW, served as director of the LSU Social Research & Evaluation Center from 1996 to 2018. She joined LSU in 1995 as a funding consultant and associate professor of research and, upon retirement, was named Professor of Research and Director Emerita in the LSU College of Human Sciences & Education.

Throughout her career, Guin developed programs and pursued funding aimed at interrupting pathways to delinquency and crime. She became an expert in truancy and death penalty mitigation and was court-qualified in adult criminality, development of a criminal personality, juvenile delinquency, social work, and cultural poverty.