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
![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; Director of Undergraduate Studies
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
![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
Research Interests: ethnic minorities; mental health; psychological empowerment; substance abuse
![Jangmin Kim.]()
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: macro practice; organizational administration and management; child welfare workforce development; cross-system collaboration; family-centered practice; children, youth and families
![Wooksoo Kim.]()
Associate Professor
Research Interests: immigrants and refugees; adjustment and integration; 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; Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Research Interests: violence and victimization; especially child maltreatment; firearm violence and prevention; system responses to violence; quantitative analysis
![Michael Lynch.]()
Clinical Associate Professor, Field Education
Research Interests: field education; social work services in schools; data and technology in social work
![Kathryn McClain-Meeder.]()
Clinical Associate Professor; MSW Program Director
Research Interests: field education; trauma; trauma-informed practice; refugees and immigrants; veterans
![nadine shaanta murshid.]()
Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion; 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; 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
![Kathryn McClain-Meeder.]()
Clinical Assistant Professor, Field Education
Research Interests: field education; acceptance and commitment therapy; health care access; self-care for the professional; professional resilience; immigrant and refugee rights
![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; Interim Associate Dean for Faculty Development
Research Interests: social work in digital environments; technology for social good; social innovation; and leadership
![Peter Sobota.]()
Research Interests: interventions; social work; 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
