Faculty Publications
ATTEA, KATE
Senior Lecturer. B.A. University of Dayton. MBA, Harvard Business School. Effective Philanthropy;Executive Leadership Coaching and Teams Management; Impact Measurement; Managing with Data; Non-Profit Organizations; Nonprofit Strategic Business Planning; Organizational Design; Social Impact Strategy.
BARNES,CAROLYN
Associate Professor. Ph.D., University of Michigan. Fields of Special Interest: Administrative Burden; Policy Feedback; Racial Inequality; Social Welfare; Street Level Bureaucracy; Urban Politics
BARTRAM, ROBIN
Associate Professor. B.A. Sussex University, MA. Loyola University, M.A., and Ph.D. Northwestern University, Fields of Special Interests: Environment; Housing; Policy Implementation; Urban Inequality
BOURIS, ALIDA
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Associate Professor. B.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.S.W., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University School of Social Work. Fields of Special Interest: HIV and STI prevention among sexual minority and heterosexual youth; primary and secondary adolescent pregnancy prevention; family-based interventions; parental influences on adolescent health; mental health; health disparity research; sexuality and reproductive health; evidence-based practice.
CARR, E. SUMMERSON
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Professor with a joint appointment in the Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice and the Department of Anthropology in the Division of Social Sciences. B.S., M.A., M.S.W., Ph.D., Michigan. Fields of Special Interest: the anthropology of social work; therapeutic language and metalanguage; cultural and social theory; drug use and treatment; ethnographic methods; gender and sexuality; personhood; semiotics and sociolinguistics.
CHASKIN, ROBERT J.
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McCormick Foundation Professor. B.S., Northwestern; A.M., Ph.D., Chicago. Fields of Special Interest: community organizing and development; community social organization; comprehensive community initiatives; youth development; associations and nonprofits; philanthropy and social change; research application and evaluation; cross-national research.
CHOI, YOONSUN
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Mose J. and Sylvia Firestone Professor; Deputy Dean for Curriculum B.A., Ewha University (Korea); M.S.S.W., Texas-Austin; Ph.D., Washington-Seattle. Fields of Special Interest: minority youth development; effects of race, ethnicity, and culture in youth development; children of immigrants; Asian American youth; prevention of youth problem behaviors; quantitative research methods.
DARROW, JESSICA
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Associate Instructional Professor. B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago. Fields of Special Interest: institutional structures for refugee resettlement; social policy; social construction of the refugee identity.
EPPERSON, MATTHEW W.
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Associate Professor; Doctoral Program Director; Director, Smart Decarceration Project. B.S., Central Michigan; M.S.W., Grand Valley State; M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia. Fields of Special Interest: intervention research on co-occurring problems of HIV, substance abuse, mental illness, and criminal justice involvement; HIV prevention and epidemiology; substance abuse and mental illness; criminal justice-affected populations; use of multimedia tools in intervention development and delivery; dissemination / translational research; criminal justice content in social work education.
FEDOCK, GINA L.
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Associate Professor. Ph.D., Michigan State University School of Social Work. Fields of Special Interest: improving vulnerable women’s health and mental health, with a focus on pregnant and postpartum women, as well as women who are incarcerated; criminal justice policy; prevention; violence and trauma.
GARBODEN, PHILLIP
Associate Professor. MA and Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University. Fields of Special Interests: Housing; Public Policy.
GARCIA, ANGELA
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Associate Professor. Ph.D., University of California, San Diego. Fields of Special Interest: immigration, law, and society; inequality, race, and ethnicity; public policy; mixed and comparative methodology.
GOODWILL, JANELLE R.
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Neubauer Family Assistant Professor. B.A., Michigan State; M.S.W., M.S., Ph.D., University of Michigan. Fields of Special Interest: suicidal behaviors and depression; measurement and psychometrics; Black American mental health, flourishing, and well-being; positive psychological protective factors
GOTTLIEB, AARON
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Associate Professor. B.A., Syracuse University; M.S., Columbia University; Ph.D., Princeton University. Fields of Special Interest: criminal justice policy; criminal legal change; criminal legal policy; Decarceration; social welfare policy; social work; sociology
GORMAN-SMITH, DEBORAH
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Chief Strategist for Community Engagement and Partnerships, Dean and Emily Klein Gidwitz Professor. Ph.D., University of Illinois-Chicago. Fields of Special Interest: children and adolescents; prevention; violence and trauma.
GROGAN, COLLEEN M.
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Deborah R. and Edgar D. Jannotta Professor. B.A., Wisconsin; Ph.D., Minnesota. Fields of Special Interest: American government and public policy; health policy and health politics; the American welfare state; comparative state-level policy and politics.
HENLY, JULIA R.
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Samuel Deutsch Professor; Deputy Dean for Research and Faculty Development. B.A., Wisconsin; M.S.W., Ph.D., Michigan. Fields of Special Interest: family poverty; child care and welfare policy; work-family strategies of low wage workers; work and family policy; informal support networks; employment discrimination.
HILADO, AIMEE
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Assistant Professor. M.S.W., Loyola University Chicago; M.S.W., Erikson Institute; Ph.D., Loyola University Chicago. Fields of Special Interest: immigration trauma; early childhood/adult mental health; and culturally sensitive clinical practice for refugee and immigrant populations
HOLMES, E. PAUL
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Senior Lecturer. B.A., in Psychology, Olivet Nazarene; Psy.D., Illinois School of Professional Psychology. Fields of Special Interest: psychology; substance abuse.
ISMAYILOVA, LEYLA
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Associate Professor. B.S. and M.Sc. in Psychology, Baku State University; M.S.W, Ph.D., Columbia University. Fields of Special Interest: child and adolescent mental health in the global context; youth risk behaviors; family-based interventions; women's empowerment and health; child welfare and protection; prevention.
JOHNSON JR., WALDO E.
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Professor and Vice Provost. B.A., Mercer; M.S.W., Michigan; Ph.D., Chicago. Fields of Special Interest: male roles and involvement in African American families; non-resident fathers in fragile families; the physical and psychosocial health statuses of African American males.
MA, ZHIYING
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Assistant Professor. B.A., Peking University, China; Ph.D., Chicago. Fields of Special Interest: disability studies; mental health; international social work.
MARSH, JEANNE
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George Herbert Jones Distinguished Service Professor. B.A., Michigan State; M.S.W., Ph.D., Michigan. Fields of Special Interest: services for women and families; service integration in service delivery; social program and policy evaluation; knowledge utilization in practice and program decision-making.
MARWELL, NICOLE P.
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Professor and Faculty Director, SSL Program. A.B., Columbia; A.M., Ph.D., Chicago. Fields of Special Interest: urban governance, with a focus on the diverse intersections between non-profit organizations, government bureaucracies, and politics.
MCMILLEN, J. CURTIS
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David and Mary Winton Green Professor. B.A., Trinity, San Antonio; M.S.W., Oklahoma; Ph.D., Maryland. Fields of Special Interest: mental health services; child welfare clients; older youth leaving the foster care system.
MERRITT, DARCEY
Professor BA, Sarah Lawrence College, MSW, and PhD in social welfare from the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, Department of Social Welfare. Fields of Special Interest: Child neglect and poverty; Child Protective Services: impacted, Black, financially disenfranchised mothers; Child Welfare System; Lived experiences of racially marginalized parents and children: impacted families enduring poverty; Parental decision-making in the context of low socio-economic status; Traumatic impacts related to racialized poverty and systems oversight; Prevention.
MILLER, REUBEN JONATHAN
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Associate Professor. B.A., Chicago State; A.M., Chicago; Ph.D., Loyola Chicago. Fields of Special Interest: crime, crime policy, and criminal justice; poverty and income; race, ethnicity, and culture; welfare.
MOORE, LISA LYNELLE
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Senior Lecturer. B.A., Davidson; M.S.W., Smith, Ph.D., California Institute of Integral Studies. Fields of Special Interest: intergenerational care-taking in public housing; community activism; psychological empowerment.
MOSLEY, JENNIFER E.
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Professor. B.A., Reed; M.S.W., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles. Fields of Special Interest: non-profit and human service organizations; policy advocacy and lobbying; government-non-profit relations; civic engagement; policy formulation and implementation; philanthropy.
PALMER MOLINA, ABIGAIL
Neubauer Family Assistant Professor. AM, University of Chicago. PhD, University of Southern California. Fields of Special Interest: Children and Adolescents, Family, Family Support, Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health, Intervention Programs, Maternal Mental Health, Mental Health, Social Work
PARIKH, SHIPRA.
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Associate Instructional Professor. Fields of Special Interest: Complex, developmental trauma experiences in youth and adulthood; Cross-cultural and global social work models; sexual and relational violence, community violence; issues related to parenting and parent needs; insight-oriented and relational clinical supervision and mentoring.
POLLACK, HAROLD A.
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Helen Ross Professor. B.S.E., Princeton; M.P.P., Ph.D., Harvard. Fields of Special Interest: substance abuse policy; health policy; crime prevention; intellectual disability.
RODERICK, MELISSA
Hermon Dunlap Smith Professor. A.B. Bowdoin College, Master’s Public Policy, Harvard University, Ph.D. Harvard University. Fields of Special Interests: Children and Adolescents; Education; Race, Ethnicity, and Culture; Urban
SAMUELS, GINA MIRANDA
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Associate Professor. B.S., Wisconsin-Oshkosh; M.S.S.W., Ph.D., Wisconsin-Madison. Fields of Special Interest: use of interpretive research methods to inform child welfare practice; multiracial and multiethnic identity; transracial adoption; kinship and identity formation among foster youth.
SIMMONS, S.
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Associate Instructional Professor. B.S., M.S., Iowa State; Ph.D., Loyola University. Fields of Special Interest: Gender identities and experiences; LGBT+ Sexuality; Race and racism; Higher Education/Student Development; Identity Development; Inclusion and Equity; Assessment and Evaluation; Pedagogy and Curriculum Development; Mentoring and Leadership.
SITES, WILLIAM
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Associate Professor. B.A., Oberlin; Ph.D., CUNY. Fields of Special Interest: urban policy and politics; community organization; political processes; social movements; social theory.
THOMAS, MARGARET M.C.
Assistant Professor. B.A., University of Notre Dame; MSW, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; PhD, Boston University. Field of Special Interests: Child Welfare and Child Protection; Child Welfare System; Children and Adolescents; Family; Food Insecurity; Guaranteed Income; LGBTQIA+; Material Hardship; Poverty; Social Welfare Policy; Social Work.
WANG, MING-TE
Professor. PhD, Harvard, and postdoctoral training at the University of Michigan. Fields of Special Interests: Culture, parenting, identity development, and ethnic-racial socialization; Diversity, Opportunity, and Equity; Longitudinal Data Analysis; Motivation, engagement, and youth development in context; Racial, SES, and gender disparities in education and health; Risk and resilience; School climate and racial disparities in school discipline; School to prison pipeline; School-based psychosocial intervention; Social and emotional development; Sociocultural, affective, and cognitive processes in learning; STEM learning and group disparities.
YASUI, MIWA
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Associate Professor. B.A., Sophia University, Tokyo; B.A., Ph.D., Oregon. Fields of Special Interest: cultural influences on development, such as ethnic identity development and ethnic-racial socialization; examination of the artistic validity of assessments and interventions for ethnically diverse children and youth; culturally anchored parenting processes and family functioning; intervention and prevention of problem behaviors among youth; treatment of disruptive behaviors of young children; observational methodology.
ZARYCHTA, ALAN
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Associate Professor. B.S., Northwestern University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Colorado Boulder. Fields of Special Interest: public health; public policy; governance; Latin America.