PhD Student Profiles

• MHA, Utica College
• BS, Virginia Commonwealth University

• ethnogeriatrics
• the intersection of health, race/ethnicity, and aging
• accessing the difference in the quality of care between different racial groups in long-term care facilities
• examining the disparities in access to long-term care facilities for low-income communities with predominantly Black residents

• MA, Union University
• BA, Union University

• refugee and immigrant communities
• barriers to integration and community inclusion
• program evaluation

PhD Candidate

Dissertation topic: An examination of mental health literacy among Middle Eastern refugee women in New Yorl state (Chair: Wooksoo Kim)

• MSW, University at Buffalo
• BA, SUNY Geneseo

• Middle Eastern immigrant and refugee communities
• mental healthcare access and utilization

• MSW, University at Buffalo
• MS, University of Delaware
• BA, Drew University

• adolescent dating violence and sex trafficking
• behavioral and sexual health effects of early trauma and revictimization
• mixed methods

• MSW, University at Buffalo
• BA, Lawrence University

• effects of the criminal justice system on communities
• food justice
• storytelling as a means for social change

PhD Candidate

Dissertation topic: Investigating mutual interest among white antiracist organizers (Chair: Annette Semanchin Jones)

• MSW, University at Buffalo
• BA, Canisius College

• critical analysis of whiteness and white supremacy
• antiracist organizing
• participatory and action research

PhD Candidate

Dissertation topic: Questioning capacity: The impact of "capacity to consent" policies and practices on the sexual rights of women labeled with intellectual disability (Chair: Laina Y. Bay-Cheng)

• MSW, University of Wyoming
• BA, University of Washington

• sexual subjectivity at diverse intersections of gender, age and disability
• sexuality policies and practices affecting women labeled with an intellectual disability
• feminist and disability theories and methods

PhD Candidate

Dissertation topic: Critical grounded theory study on youths' perceptions and experiences of adultism across contexts (Chair: Laina Y. Bay-Cheng)

• MSW, University at Buffalo
• BS, Towson University

• intersections between adultism, cissexism, and heterosexism
• homelessness and child welfare involvement among LGBTQ+ youth
• participatory action research

PhD Candidate

Dissertation topic: Understanding the role of income inequality in public health and its longitudinal relationship to suicide mortality in the United States (Chair: Elizabeth A. Bowen)

• MSW, Roberts Wesleyan College
• BA, Houghton College

• income inequality and behavioral health
• recovery capital and substance misuse
• policy mapping methodology

• AM (MSW), University of Chicago
• BA, Seoul National University

• community organization and development
• immigrants and refugees

• MSW, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania
• BA, Binghamton University

• alcohol use disorder intervention development
• substance use disorder recovery trajectories and disparities
• American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare (AASWSW) grand challenge developments

• MSW, University at Buffalo
• MA, New Mexico State University
• BA, University of California, Santa Barbara

• historical and generational trauma healing in Indigenous communities
• environmental justice in Indigenous and marginalized communities
• culture-centered and land-/place-based healing approaches

• MSW, University at Buffalo
• BA, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

• abortion access in the United States South
• access to sexual rights and healthcare in young women and girls

• MSS, Bryn Mawr College
• BA, Temple University

• caregivers for older adults with Alzheimer's disease and other dementias and persons with intellectual and development disabilities
• caregiver health  (physical, emotional, social and financial), including: employment and educational stability; disparities in access to supports and services; and system-level change and policy implications
  
• community-based engaged research and program evaluation; mixed methods; implementation science
  

• MSW, University at Buffalo
• BA, SUNY Old Westbury

• precarious labor experiences of trafficked migrant women
• discrepancies between the stated goals of trafficking prevention schemes, policies, interventions, and trafficked migrant women's account of their experiences 
• critical analysis of anti-trafficking discourse, policies and interventions

PhD Candidate

Dissertation topic: Mixed-methods evaluation of a comprehensive HIV prevention program for Black gay/bisexual men in the United States (Chair: Isok Kim)

• MSW, University at Buffalo
• BSW, University of the District of Columbia

• program evaluation/translational research 
• HIV/AIDS and sexual minorities
• sexual and gender minorities studies

PhD Candidate

Dissertation topic: An exploration of refugee women's economic wellbeing, social capital, and employment in a resettlement city (Chair: Yunju Nam)

• MSW, University at Buffalo
• BA, Houghton College

• refugee women's social capital and economic participation
• applications of transnational feminist perspectives on resettlement policy

• MSW, University at Buffalo
• BA, SUNY Geneseo

• educational policy and educational justice
• school-community partnerships
• first-generation college student families' experiences

• MSW, University at Buffalo
• BSW, Buffalo State College

• child, adolescent and young adult mental health
• mental health service delivery systems

• MSW, University at Buffalo
• BA, Canisius College

• mental health stigma within systems of care
• feminist and disability studies
• borderline personality disorder

• MSW, Univeristy at Buffalo
• BA, Buffalo State College

• enriching community life, health and well-being in predominantly Black neighborhoods
• interventions that promote community development, engagement and control
• impacts of gentrification and displacement in racially disenfranchised neighborhoods

• MSW, Peking University
• BA, Nanjing University of Finance and Economics

• nonprofit organizational collaboration/ interrelationship
• program evaluation