Faculty
Standing Faculty
Joretha Bourjolly, PhD
Associate Professor and Associate Dean, Academic Affairs; PhD, Bryn Mawr, 1996. Effects of chronic illness on individuals and family members as well as the impact of racial and economic factors on the delivery of health care.
Ram A. Cnaan, PhD
Professor and Associate Dean, Research; PhD, Pittsburgh, 1981. Social work research methods, social policy, volunteerism and volunteer action, information technology applications.
Dennis Culhane, PhD
Professor; PhD, Boston College, 1990. Homelessness, housing policy, policy analysis research methods.
Joan K. Davitt, PhD
Assistant Professor; PhD, Bryn Mawr, 2003. Gerontology, health, and health-care outcomes for older adults and ethical issues in long-term care.
Jeffrey Draine, MSW, PhD
Associate Professor; Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 1995. Mental health and the criminal justice system, the intersection of mental illness with the criminal justice system. How policy and practice impact community inclusion of people with mental illness who come in contact with the law.
Richard J. Estes, DSW
Professor; DSW, Berkeley, 1973. International and comparative social welfare, social indicators, mental health, evaluative research, computer technology.
Damon W. Freeman, JD, PhD
Assistant Professor; J.D., PhD, Indiana, 2004. African American intellectual history, critical race theory, social policy and social movements.
Richard James Gelles, PhD
Professor and Dean; PhD, New Hampshire, 1973. Child welfare, family violence, child abuse.
Toorjo TJ Ghose, PhD
Assistant Professor; PhD, UCLA, 2005. Substance abuse, HIV/AIDS in developing countries, mental health service provision, and welfare policy
Femida Handy, PhD
On leave 2008-2009
Professor;
Academic Advisor for the Masters in
Nonprofit/NGO Leadership Program; Ph.D.,York, 1995. Nonprofit entrepreneurship and volunteerism, comparative and international aspects of the nonprofit and voluntary sector and social accounting.
Roberta Rehner Iversen, PhD
Associate Professor; PhD, Bryn Mawr, 1991. Low-income families and economic mobility; poverty, welfare and workforce development policies.
Karin Rhodes, MD
Assistant Professor; MD; Chicago, 1983. Family violence, quality of emergency services, access to follow-up care and the intersection between acute care and the mental health, social services, and criminal justice systems.
Roberta G. Sands, PhD
Professor; PhD, Louisville, 1979. Mental health, women’s issues, clinical social work practice, interprofessional communications, ethnographic sociolinguistic research.
Vivian Seltzer, PhD
Professor; PhD, Bryn Mawr, 1975. Adolescents, psychosocial development, adolescent behavior, adolescent problems, adolescent peer group relations, child development and behavior.
Kenwyn K. Smith, PhD
Professor; PhD, Yale, 1974. Group and intergroup relations, organizational change, organizational politics, conflict management, impact of organizational dynamics on the health of employees.
Phyllis Solomon, PhD
Professor; PhD, Case Western Reserve, 1978. Social work research methods, mental health policy and service delivery systems, severely mentally disabled persons and their families.
Susan Sorenson, PhD
Professor; PhD, Cincinnati, 1985. Public health, epidemiology and prevention of violence, including homicide, suicide, sexual assault, child abuse, battering, and firearms.
Carol Wilson Spigner, DSW
Associate Professor; DSW, USC, 1980. Children, youth and families, child welfare, program evaluation and administration.
Mark J. Stern, PhD
Professor; PhD, York (England), 1980. Social welfare policy; social history and social welfare; poverty in the United States, 1900–present.
Yin-Ling Irene Wong, PhD
Associate Professor; PhD, Wisconsin, 1995. Social policy, homelessness prevention and poverty research.