Degree Program Offered: Doctor of Philosophy
Director of Graduate Program: Associate Professor Allison Zippay, School of Social Work, 536 George Street, College Avenue Campus (848-932-5385)
Email: zippay@ssw.rutgers.edu
Members of the Graduate Faculty
Beth Angell, Associate Professor of Social Work, SSW; Ph.D.,
Wisconsin (Madison)
Mental health services and severe mental illness
Stephen Crystal, Research Professor of Social Work and Sociology, SSW/IHHCPAR; Ph.D., Harvard
AIDS; long-term care; homelessness; longitudinal data analysis
Laura
Curran, Associate Professor of Social Work, SSW; Ph.D., California
(Berkeley)
Family and child policy and practice; welfare policy; social
welfare history/theory; gender and sexuality
Donald T. Dickson, Professor of Social Work, SSW; Ph.D., Michigan
Law; child welfare; mental health; administration
Richard
L. Edwards, Dean and Professor of Social Work, SSW; Ph.D., SUNY
(Albany)
Nonprofit and public management; international social work;
social work education
Antoinette Farmer, Associate Professor of Social Work, SSW; Ph.D., Pittsburgh
Parenting behavior; kinship care; AIDS knowledge and prevention; evaluation of social work practice
Jeffrey Floersch, Associate Professor of Social Work, SSW;
Ph.D., Chicago
Youth psychotropic treatment; case
management; use of qualitative methods to evaluate practice
Chien-Chung
Huang, Professor of Social Work, SSW; Ph.D., Columbia
Social
assistance; poverty and income redistribution
Michael C.
LaSala, Associate Professor of Social Work, SSW; Ph.D., SUNY (Albany)
Clinical social work; gay and lesbian issues; marriage and family
therapy
Jeffrey Longhofer, Associate Professor of Social Work, SSW; Ph.D.,
Kansas
Case management and dynamics of psychological stigma in mental health
patients
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, SSW/IHHCPAR; Ph.D., Stanford
Medical sociology; evaluation research and social policy
Shari
Munch, Associate Professor of Social Work, SSW; Ph.D., Michigan
State
Health care; women's health
care; perinatal ethics and bereavement
Lia Nower, Associate
Professor of Social Work, SSW; Ph.D., Washington (St. Louis)
Pathological gambling; substance abuse; addictions; forensic issues in
mental health
N. Andrew Peterson, Associate Professor of Social Work, SSW; Ph.D., Missouri (Kansas City)
Community organizing; empowerment theory; program evaluation; substance abuse prevention
Judy
Postmus, Associate Professor of Social Work, SSW; Ph.D., SUNY (Albany)
Violence
against women; impact of policies on abuse survivors;
interagency collaboration
Kathleen J. Pottick, Associate Professor of Social Work, SSW/IHHCPAR; Ph.D., Michigan
Child and adolescent mental health and psychiatric service delivery system
Darcy Siebert, Associate Professor of Social Work, SSW;
Ph.D., North Carolina (Chapel Hill)
Theory and measurement of risky health behavior; alcohol and
other drug use; occupational/behavioral issues among helping professionals
Allison Zippay, Professor of Social Work, SSW;
Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Community planning and development; psychiatric
and affordable housing planning and development; poverty and employment policy;
social networks and civic engagement among poor and low-income groups
Associate Members of the Graduate Faculty
Ayse Akincigil, Associate Professor of Social Work, SSW/IHHCPAR; Ph.D., Rutgers;
Aging; mental health; economics; HIV/AIDS
Edward J. Alessi, Assistant Professor of Social Work, SSW;
Ph.D., New York
Lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) mental health issues;
clinical assessment and diagnosis; affirmative psychotherapy with LGB
clients
Francis Barchi, Assistant Professor of Social Work, SSW; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Global health; research ethics; global health ethics; women's autonomy
Patricia
Findley, Associate Professor of Social Work, SSW; Ph.D., Illinois (Chicago)
Disability; rehabilitation; chronic illness
Emily A. Greenfield, Associate Professor of Social Work, SSW; Ph.D., Wisconsin (Madison)
Aging; life course development; health
Myungkook Joo, Assistant Research Professor of Social Work, SSW; Ph.D., Washington
Early childhood development; effects of poverty and economic inequality on child outcomes
Jeounghee Kim, Assistant Professor of Social Work, SSW; Ph.D., Washington
Poverty; economic inequality; low-wage labor markets; welfare policies; health disparity
Judith McCoyd, Assistant Professor of Social
Work, SSW; Ph.D., Bryn Mawr College
Medical decision making; bereavement and
"feeling rules" in medical technologies
Sarah McMahon, Assistant Professor of Social Work, SSW;
Ph.D., Rutgers
Violence against women and social work education
Lenna Nepomnyaschy, Assistant Professor of Social Work, SSW;
Ph.D., Columbia
Child and family health policies; poverty and
inequality
Cassandra
Simmel, Associate Professor of Social Work, SSW; Ph.D., California
(Berkeley)
Child welfare programs and services; child and youth mental health
Jill W. Sinha, Assistant Professor of Social Work, SSW; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Faith-based organizations; high-risk adolescents;
international social work
Liliane Cambria Windsor, Assistant Professor of Social Work,
SSW; Ph.D., Texas (Austin)
Substance abuse; social justice; research
methods
Karen Zurlo, Assistant Professor of Social Work, SSW; Ph.D.,
Pennsylvania
Life course development; aging, health, poverty, and social policy