Standing Faculty

Sara S. Bachman, PhD

Dean

3701 Locust Walk, Caster Building
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6214

office: 215.898.5512
fax: 215.573.2099

deansoffice@sp2.upenn.edu

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

3718 Locust Walk, McNeil Building, Room 521
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6214

office: 215.898.5524
fax: 215.573.2099

jerri@sp2.upenn.edu

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

3701 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6214

amybaker@sp2.upenn.edu

Assistant Professor; PhD, CUNY Hunter, 2014. Economic mobility; guaranteed income; innovation; how social policies produce gender and race disparities in housing and lending.

Jacqueline Corcoran, PhD

Professor

3701 Locust Walk, Caster Building, D-8
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6214

office: 703.405.3254
fax: 215.573.2099

cojacq@upenn.edu

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.

Malitta Engstrom, PhD, LCSW

Associate Professor
Faculty Fellow, Ortner Center on Violence & Abuse
Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute
Fellow, Gerontological Society of America

3701 Locust Walk, Caster Building, D-16
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6214

office: 215.573.6454
fax: 215.573.2099

malitta@sp2.upenn.edu

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

3815 Walnut Street, Room 400
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6214

office: 215.573.9298

pfrumkin@sp2.upenn.edu

Professor; PhD, University of Chicago; Philanthropy; nonprofit management; social entrepreneurship.

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

3815 Walnut Street, Room 201
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6179

office: 215.370.7944
fax: 215.573.2099

gelles@sp2.upenn.edu

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

3718 Locust Walk, McNeil Building, Room 506
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6214

office: 215.746.5487
fax: 215.573.2099

zgellis@sp2.upenn.edu

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

3701 Locust Walk, Caster Building
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6214

office: 215.898.5512
fax: 215.573.2099

toorjo@sp2.upenn.edu

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

3701 Locust Walk, Caster Building, D-19
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6214

office: 215.898.7540
fax: 215.573.2099

jgreeson@sp2.upenn.edu

http://www.johannagreeson.com

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

3701 Locust Walk, Caster Building
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6214

office: 215.898.5532
fax: 215.573.2099

chaoguo@sp2.upenn.edu

http://www.drchaoguo.net

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

3701 Locust Walk, Caster Building, Room D3
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6214

office: 215.573.2660
fax: 215.573.2099

fhandy@upenn.edu

https://www.centerforglobalgenerosity.org/

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

3718 Locust Walk, McNeil Building, Room 518
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6214

office: 215.746.5486
fax: 215.573.2099

ahillier@upenn.edu

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

3701 Locust Walk, Caster Building, Room D2
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6214

office: 215.898.5529
fax: 215.573.2099

riversen@sp2.upenn.edu

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

3701 Locust Walk, Caster Building
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6214

office: 215.898.5512
fax: 215.573.2099

https://pikprofessors.upenn.edu

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

3701 Locust Walk, Caster Building, Room D6
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6214

ioma@upenn.edu

http://www.marinescu.eu

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)

3701 Locust Walk, Caster Building, D-4
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6214

office: 215.746.1330
fax: 215.573.2099

jenpr@upenn.edu

https://www.healthequityandpolicylab.com/

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

3701 Locust Walk, Caster Building, Room C17
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6214

office: 215.898.1238
fax: 215.573.2099

kenwyns@sp2.upenn.edu

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
Interim Associate Director, DSW Program

3701 Locust Walk, Caster Building, Room C13
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6214

office: 215.898.5533
fax: 215.573.2099

solomonp@sp2.upenn.edu

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

3815 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6179

office: 215.573.1169
fax: 215.573.2791

sorenson@upenn.edu

http://www.ortnercenter.org

Professor; PhD, Cincinnati, 1985. Public health; epidemiology and prevention of violence; violence against women as a public health issue; firearms as a consumer product.

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

3701 Locust Walk, Caster Building, Room C16
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6214

awer@upenn.edu

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

3701 Locust Walk, Caster Building, Room D14
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6214

office: 215.898.5505
fax: 215.573.2099

ylwong@sp2.upenn.edu

Professor; PhD, Wisconsin, 1995. Mental health services research; mixed-methods research; community inclusion of persons with psychiatric disabilities; global research partnership.