Degree Program Offered: Doctor of Philosophy

Director of Graduate Program: Professor Donald T. Dickson, School of Social Work, 536 George Street, College Avenue Campus (732/932-6967)

Members of the Graduate Faculty

Judith Baer, Associate Professor of Social Work, SSW; Ph.D., Houston Life-span development; adolescent development

Eleanor L. Brilliant, Professor of Social Work, SSW; D.S.W., Columbia
Social policy, organizations, women, and international philanthropy

Stephen Crystal, Research Professor of Social Work and Sociology, SSW/IHHCPAR; Ph.D., Harvard
AIDS; long-term care; homelessness; longitudinal data analysis

Mary Edna Davidson, Dean and Professor of Social Work, SSW; Ph.D., Brandeis Child welfare; advocacy research; equity analysis of public social policy

Donald T. Dickson, Professor of Social Work, SSW; Ph.D., Michigan
Law; child welfare; mental health; administration

Antoinette Farmer, Associate Professor of Social Work, SSW; Ph.D., Pittsburgh
Parenting behavior, kinship care; AIDS knowledge and prevention; evaluation of social work practice

Paul Glasser, Professor of Social Work, SSW; Ph.D., North Carolina
Family theory; marital and family therapy; small-group theory and practice

Michael C. LaSala, Associate Professor of Social Work, SSW; Ph.D., SUNY (Albany) Clinical social work; gay and lesbian issues; marriage and family therapy

Raymond Sánchez Mayers, Associate Professor of Social Work, SSW; Ph.D., Brandeis
Financial management in nonprofits; administrative issues; Hispanic issues

David Mechanic, University Professor and René Dubos Professor of Behavioral Sciences; Ph.D., Stanford
Medical sociology; evaluation research and social policy

Kathleen J. Pottick, Associate Professor of Social Work, SSW/IHHCPAR; Ph.D., Michigan
Child and adolescent mental health and psychiatric service delivery system

Allison Zippay, Associate Professor of Social Work, SSW; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Poverty and employment policy; community development; social networks

Associate Members of the Graduate Faculty

Laura Curran, Assistant Professor of Social Work, SSW; Ph.D., California (Berkeley) Family and child policy and practice; welfare policy; social welfare history/theory; gender and sexuality

Chien-Chung Huang, Assistant Professor of Social Work, SSW; Ph.D., Columbia Child support; social assistance; poverty; and income redistribution

Yvonne M. Johnson, Assistant Professor of Social Work, SSW; Ph.D., Columbia End of life decisions; advance directives; history and philosophy of social work

Marie Liston, Assistant Professor of Social Work, SSW; Ph. D., Denver Life-span development; gerontology; veterans; qualitative research

Judith McCoyd, Assistant Professor of Social Work, SSW; Ph.D., Bryn Mawr Medical decision making; bereavement and "feeling rules" in medical technologies

Claudia Moreno, Assistant Professor of Social Work, SSW; Ph.D., Ohio State HIV/AIDS and women's issues

Shari Munch, Assistant Professor of Social Work, SSW; Ph.D., Michigan State
Health care; women's health care; perinatal ethics and bereavement

Jonathan Prince, Assistant Professor of Social Work, SSW; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Child welfare and mental health services; history of adult mental health care

Cassandra Simmel, Assistant Professor of Social Work, SSW; Ph.D., California (Berkeley) Child welfare programs and services, especially concerning youth transitioning out of care; child and youth mental health

Josef Spiegel, Assistant Professor of Social Work, SSW; Ph.D., Florida State Child abuse; sexual abuse of boys; HIV disease; addictions and intervention

Lynn A. Warner, Assistant Professor of Social Work, SSW; Ph.D., Michigan ATOD; mental health; epidemiology and social policy