Full Time Faculty
![Nancy J. Smyth.]()
Dean
Research Interests: Culturally specific service delivery for special populations; the exploration of helping approaches in family mental health; rites of passage programming for adolescent African American males; kinship care and child welfare interventions
![louanne bakk.]()
DSW Program Director; Clinical Associate Professor
Research Interests: Gerontology, Health Access, Health Disparities, Macro Practice, Program Evaluation, Social Welfare Policy
![Annahita Ball.]()
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Social work services in schools, youth development, school-family-community partnerships, educational policy
![Laina Y. Bay-Cheng.]()
Associate Dean for Faculty Development; Professor
Research Interests: Adolescent Sexuality, Gender, Youth Empowerment
![Elizabeth Bowen.]()
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Homelessness, health disparities, addiction recovery, policy analysis
![Clara M. Bradizza.]()
![Lisa Butler.]()
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Trauma and Resilience, Trauma-informed Practice, Veterans and Their Families, Dissociative Processes592 Baldy Hall, 229 Parker Hall
Phone: 716-645-1247; Fax: 716-645-3456, 716-829-3938
Email: ldbutler@buffalo.edu
![Filomena M. Critelli.]()
Associate Professor; Undergraduate Studies Coordinator
Research Interests: Gender-based violence in domestic and global contexts; global migration, human rights of women, children, and migrants; intersection of trauma and human rights; global social work and social welfare
![Catherine N. Dulmus.]()
Professor; Associate Dean for Research
Research Interests: Behavioral health, serious mental illness across the life span, community-based research, community-university research partnerships591 Baldy Hall, 221 Parker Hall
Phone: 716-645-1253; Fax: 716-645-3456, 716-829-3992
Email: cdulmus@buffalo.edu
![Diane E. Elze.]()
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs; Associate Professor
Research Interests: Adolescent Health, Adolescent Mental Health, HIV Prevention Interventions and Adolescents, LGBT
![Susan A. Green.]()
![Annette Semanchin Jones.]()
PhD Program Director; Associate Professor
Research Interests: Child Welfare; permanency and well-being; youth connections to supportive adults; strengthening families; racial equity; child welfare policy
![robert keefe.]()
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Health Access and Outcomes, Health Disparities
![Isok Kim.]()
Associate Professor; MSW Program Director
Research Interests: Ethnic Minorities, Mental Health, Psychological Empowerment, Substance Abuse
![Wooksoo Kim.]()
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Asian immigrants, Asian immigrant elders, and their mental health, alcohol use and gambling; immigration and acculturation; community-based research
![Denise J. Krause.]()
Clinical Professor; Associate Dean for Community Engagement and Alumni Relations
Research Interests: Interventions, Solution Focused Practice
![Laura Lewis.]()
![Laina Y. Bay-Cheng.]()
Visiting Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Alcohol use disorder treatment, recovery, novel intervention development, intensive longitudinal methods
![Patricia Logan-Greene.]()
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Child Welfare, Cumulative Adversity, Criminal Justice Responses to Violence, Victimization, Violence
![Michael Lynch.]()
Clinical Assistant Professor, Field Education
Research Interests: Field education, social work services in schools, data and technology in social work
![Kathryn McClain-Meeder.]()
Clinical Assistant Professor, Field Education
Research Interests: Field education; trauma and trauma-informed practice; refugees and immigrants; veterans
![nadine shaanta murshid.]()
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Microfinance, domestic violence, genocide, political violence, trauma, social movements
![Yunju Nam.]()
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Asset-building, Economic Inequality, Elderly Immigrants, Poverty, Social Welfare Policy
![Kelly Patterson.]()
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Community-based Housing Organizations, Fair Housing Advocacy, Housing Patterns and Poverty, Spatial Issues and Social Service Access/Delivery, Subsidized Housing, Urban Neighborhoods
![Maria Y. Rodriguez.]()
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Intersection of applied demography, computational social science, and social policy
![Melanie Sage.]()
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Child welfare culture; Indian Child Welfare Act; social work technology; family-centered child welfare practice; technology in social work; distance education
![Todd Sage.]()
Clinical Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Use of Motivational Interviewing in Child Welfare; Drug and Alcohol Addiction; Motivational Interviewing and Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy; Social Work with Veterans; Instructional design for distance education
![Nancy J. Smyth.]()
Professor
Research Interests: Social work in digital environments, technology for social good, social innovation, and leadership
![Peter Sobota.]()
Clinical Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Interventions, Social Work and Non-Traditional Settings
![Mickey Sperlich.]()
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Trauma, Mental Health, Sexual and Reproductive Health, Interventions, Child Mental Health, Health Disparities
![Christopher St. Vil.]()
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Gender, Trauma, Violence, Victimization, Substance Abuse
![Noelle M. St. Vil.]()
Assistant Professor; Faculty Support Liaison for Racially Underrepresented Students
Research Interests: Interpersonal violence; black male-female relationships; man-sharing
![Laura Lewis.]()
Associate Professor; Director of Field Education
Research Interests: Youth violence prevention; community-based participatory research; community-centered violence prevention; community partnership; field education
![Paul R. Stasiewicz.]()
Professor; Janet B. Wattles Endowed Chair
Research Interests: addictions, interventions, treatment
![Deborah P. Waldrop.]()
Professor
Research Interests: Bereavement Outcomes, End-of-Life Decision Making, Gerontology633 Baldy Hall, 225 Parker Hall
Phone: 716-645-1231; Fax: 716-645-3456, 716-829-3992
Email: dwaldrop@buffalo.edu
![Hilary N. Weaver.]()
Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion; Professor
Research Interests: Indigenous Populations, Multicultural Social Work, Refugees
