Amy Castro Baker, PhD

• Assistant Professor

Jacqueline Corcoran, PhD

• Professor

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.

Ezekiel Dixon-Román, PhD

• Associate Professor

• Chair, Data Analytics for Social Policy Certificate Program

Associate Professor; PhD, Fordham University. Cultural studies of education, quantification, and social policy; philosophy of science; sociology of education; critical theories of “difference.”

Malitta Engstrom, PhD

• Associate Professor

Associate Professor; PhD, Columbia University. Problematic 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Associate Professor; PhD, University of Southern California, 2003. Collaboration within & across sectors; new media & nonprofits; nonprofit governance; representation & advocacy; social entrepreneurship.

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

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

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

Assistant Professor; PhD, London School of Economics, 2007. Labor market; unconditional cash transfers; universal basic income; education to work transitions.

Kenwyn Smith, PhD

• Professor

Professor; PhD, Yale, 1974. Group and intergroup relations; organizational change; organizational politics; conflict management; impact of organizational dynamics on the health of employees.

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

Associate Professor; PhD, University of Chicago, 2006. Psychosocial oncology; genetics and genomics; assisted reproductive technology; bioethics; emerging adulthood; medical family therapy; qualitative health research.