Sara S. Bachman, PhD
Dean
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6214
- office: 215.898.5512
- fax: 215.573.2099
Dean; PhD, Brandeis, 1994. Health and social policy; social work leadership & education; health equity; financing for vulnerable populations.
Joretha N. Bourjolly, MSW, PhD
Associate Professor/Clinician Educator
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Director, MSW Program
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6214
- office: 215.898.5524
- fax: 215.573.2099
Associate Professor and Associate Dean, Academic Affairs; PhD, Bryn Mawr, 1996. Management of multicultural conflict; effects of chronic illness on individuals and family members; impact of racial and economic factors on the delivery of health care.
Amy Castro Baker, PhD
Assistant Professor
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6214
Assistant Professor; PhD, CUNY Hunter, 2014. Economic mobility; guaranteed income; innovation; how social policies produce gender and race disparities in housing and lending.
Ram Cnaan, MSW, PhD
Professor
Program Director, Program for Religion and Social Policy Research
Faculty Director, Goldring Reentry Initiative
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6214
- office: 215.898.5523
- fax: 215.573.2099
Professor; PhD, Pittsburgh, 1981. Social work research methods; faith-based social services, social policy; volunteerism and volunteer action; prisoners’ reentry, and international social development.
Jacqueline Corcoran, PhD
Professor
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6214
- office: 703.405.3254
- fax: 215.573.2099
Professor; PhD, University of Texas at Austin, 1996. Mental health; clinical social work; evidence-based practice in social work; systematic reviews, meta-analysis, and meta-synthesis; strengths-based models.
Dennis P. Culhane, PhD
Professor
Dana and Andrew Stone Chair in Social Policy
Co-Principal Investigator, Actionable Intelligence for Social Policy
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6214
- office: 215.746.3245
- fax: 215.573.2099
Professor; PhD, Boston College, 1990. Homelessness; housing policy; policy analysis research methods.
Ezekiel Dixon-Román, PhD
Associate Professor
Director, MS in Social Policy Program
Chair, Data Analytics for Social Policy Certificate Program
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6214
- office: 215.898.5512
- fax: 215.573.2099
Associate Professor; PhD, Fordham University. Cultural studies of quantification; philosophy of science; cultural studies of education; critical policy studies; critical theories of “difference.”
Malitta Engstrom, PhD, LCSW
Associate Professor
Faculty Fellow, Ortner Center on Violence & Abuse
Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute
Fellow, Gerontological Society of America
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6214
- office: 215.573.6454
- fax: 215.573.2099
Associate Professor; PhD, Columbia University. Substance use and intersections with criminal justice system involvement, victimization, HIV, and mental health, particularly in relation to women across the life course and families; informing, developing, and testing interventions to address co-occurring concerns; enhancing the value of scientific findings for use in practice; multigenerational social work practice with families.
Peter Frumkin, PhD
Professor
Mindy and Andrew Heyer Chair in Social Policy
Faculty Director, Center for Social Impact Strategy
Director, Nonprofit Leadership Program
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6214
- office: 215.573.9298
Professor; PhD, University of Chicago; Philanthropy; nonprofit management; social entrepreneurship.
Antonio Garcia, MSW, PhD
Associate Professor
Co-Director, Child Well-Being & Child Welfare (CW2) Specialization
Faculty Director, The Field Center for Children's Policy, Practice, & Research
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6214
- office: 215.898.1592
- fax: 215.573.2099
Associate Professor; PhD, University of Washington. Child welfare and services research; Latino youth and families; measurement and contextualization of racial/ethnic disparities; development and implementation of culturally congruent, evidence-based mental health services in child-serving systems of care.
Richard James Gelles, PhD
Joanne and Raymond Welsh Chair of Child Welfare and Family Violence
Managing Faculty Director, Field Center for Children’s Policy, Practice, & Research
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6179
- office: 215.370.7944
- fax: 215.573.2099
Professor; The Joanne and Raymond Welsh Chair of Child Welfare and Family Violence; PhD, New Hampshire, 1973. Child welfare; family violence; child abuse.
Zvi D. Gellis, PhD
Professor
Director, Center for Mental Health & Aging Research
Director, Cohen Veterans Network MSW Scholars Program
Director, Ann Nolan Reese Endowed Penn Aging Certificate Program
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6214
- office: 215.746.5487
- fax: 215.573.2099
Professor; PhD, University of Toronto, 1999. Gerontology; Geriatrics; Evidence-Based Depression & Anxiety Interventions; Integrated Health & Mental Health Care; Telehealth interventions; Randomized Trials.
Toorjo Ghose, MSW, PhD
Associate Professor
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6214
- office: 215.898.5512
- fax: 215.573.2099
Associate Professor; PhD, UCLA, 2005. Substance abuse; HIV/AIDS in developing countries; mental health service provision; welfare policy.
Johanna K.P. Greeson, PhD, MSS, MLSP
Associate Professor
Founding Co-Director, Child Well-Being & Child Welfare Specialization (CW2)
Faculty Director, The Field Center for Children's Policy, Practice & Research
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6214
- office: 215.898.7540
- fax: 215.573.2099
Associate Professor; PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009. The transition to adulthood among youth who age out of foster care; natural mentoring and other supportive adult relationships for youth who age out of foster care; child traumatic stress; applied community-based intervention research and translation of research to practice; resiliency, risk and protective factors; neurobiological mechanisms of resiliency-focused interventions; life course theory; domestic minor sex trafficking
Chao Guo, PhD
Associate Professor of Nonprofit Management
Editor-in-Chief, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6214
- office: 215.898.5532
- fax: 215.573.2099
Associate Professor; PhD, University of Southern California, 2003. Collaboration within & across sectors; technology & nonprofits; nonprofit governance; representation & advocacy; social entrepreneurship.
Femida Handy, PhD
Professor
Director, PhD in Social Welfare Program
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6214
- office: 215.573.2660
- fax: 215.573.2099
Professor; PhD,York (Canada), 1995. Volunteering; volunteering & health; global philanthropy; corporate social responsibility; environmental habitus.
Amy Hillier, PhD
Associate Professor, School of Social Policy & Practice
Associate Professor, Department of City and Regional Planning, PennDesign
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6214
- office: 215.746.5486
- fax: 215.573.2099
Associate Professor; PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 1991. WEB Du Bois & The Philadelphia Negro; housing; food access; outdoor advertising; youth gender identity.
Roberta Rehner Iversen, PhD, MSS
Associate Professor
Faculty Associate, Penn Institute for Urban Research
Affiliated Faculty, Alice Paul Center for Research on Gender, Sexuality and Women
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6214
- office: 215.898.5529
- fax: 215.573.2099
Associate Professor; PhD, Bryn Mawr, 1991. Work and families; poverty, welfare, and workforce development policies and programs; economic sociology theory
John L. Jackson, Jr., PhD
Richard Perry University Professor
Penn Integrates Knowledge (PIK) Professor
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6214
- office: 215.898.5512
- fax: 215.573.2099
Professor; PhD, Columbia University, 2000. Urban studies; race/racism; visual theory/practice; ethnographic methods; health and religion; globalization and cultural change.
Ioana E. Marinescu, PhD
Assistant Professor
Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6214
Assistant Professor; PhD, London School of Economics, 2007. Labor market; unconditional cash transfers; universal basic income; education to work transitions.
Jennifer Prah Ruger, PhD
Amartya Sen Professor of Health Equity, Economics, and Policy
Faculty Chair at the Center for High Impact Philanthropy (CHIP)
Director, Health Equity and Policy Lab (HEPL)
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6214
- office: 215.746.1330
- fax: 215.573.2099
Professor; PhD, Harvard, 1998. Health and social policy; health equity and policy; global health justice and government; health and social justice; health financing; economic evaluation; political economy of health; cost analyses.
Kenwyn Smith, PhD
Professor
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6214
- office: 215.898.1238
- fax: 215.573.2099
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
Associate Dean for Research
Senior Fellow, Center for Public Health Initiatives
Faculty Fellow, Ortner Center
Faculty Fellow, The Center for High Impact Philanthropy
Kenneth L. Pray Chair in Social Policy & Practice
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6214
- office: 215.898.5533
- fax: 215.573.2099
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 B. Sorenson, PhD
Professor of Social Policy
Professor of Health & Societies
Senior Fellow in Public Health
Director, Ortner Center on Violence & Abuse
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6179
- office: 215.573.1169
- fax: 215.573.2791
Professor; PhD, Cincinnati, 1985. Public health; epidemiology and prevention of violence; violence against women as a public health issue; firearms as a consumer product.
Mark J. Stern, PhD
Professor of Social Policy and History
Principal Investigator, Social Impact of the Arts Project
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6214
Professor; PhD, York (Canada), 1980. Social welfare policy; social history and social welfare; poverty in the United States, 1900–present.
Allison Werner-Lin, PhD, AM, EdM, LCSW
Associate Professor
Adjunct Investigator, National Cancer Institute, Division of Cancer Epidemiology And Genetics
Director, Social Work in Health Care Specialization
Chair, Advanced Clinical Social Work Practice
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6214
Associate Professor; PhD, University of Chicago, 2006. Psychosocial oncology; genetics and genomics; assisted reproductive technology; bioethics; emerging adulthood; medical family therapy; qualitative health research.
Irene Wong, PhD
Professor
Senior Fellow, The Center for Public Health Initiatives
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6214
- office: 215.898.5505
- fax: 215.573.2099
Professor; PhD, Wisconsin, 1995. Mental health services research; mixed-methods research; community inclusion of persons with psychiatric disabilities; global research partnership.
