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
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: criminal legal system; mental illness and recovery; community supervision; juvenile justice; desistance from crime
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: homeless service systems and workforce issues; homelessness continuums of care and coordinated entry; program evaluation; program and policy implementation; social work education
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: psychiatric epidemiology and mental health, particularly understanding and addressing suicidality; developing and implementing evidence-based interventions to improve mental well-being and suicide prevention, reduce stigma and support at-risk populations
DSW Program Director; Clinical Associate Professor
Research Interests: gerontology; health access; health disparities; macro practice; program evaluation; social welfare policy
Associate Professor
Research Interests: social work services in schools; youth development; school-family-community partnerships; educational policy
Associate Professor
Research Interests: homelessness; health disparities; addiction recovery; policy analysis
Associate Professor
Research Interests: trauma and resilience; trauma-informed practice; veterans and their families; dissociative processes
592 Baldy Hall, 229 Parker Hall
Phone: 716-645-1247; Fax: 716-645-3456, 716-829-3938
Email: ldbutler@buffalo.edu
Associate Professor; Director of Undergraduate Studies; Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
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
Professor; Associate Dean for Research
Research Interests: behavioral health; serious mental illness across the life span; community-based research; community-university research partnerships
591 Baldy Hall, 221 Parker Hall
Phone: 716-645-1253; Fax: 716-645-3456, 716-829-3992
Email: cdulmus@buffalo.edu
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
Associate Professor
Research Interests: health access and outcomes; health disparities
Associate Professor
Research Interests: ethnic minorities; mental health; psychological empowerment; substance abuse
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: macro practice; organizational administration and management; child welfare workforce development; cross-system collaboration; family-centered practice; children, youth and families
Professor
Research Interests: immigrants and refugees; adjustment and integration; community-based research
Clinical Professor; Associate Dean for Community Engagement and Alumni Relations
Research Interests: interventions; solution focused practice
Associate Professor
Research Interests: transitions to adulthood; juvenile justice; child welfare; youth aging out of foster care; agent-based modeling
Associate Professor; Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Research Interests: violence and victimization, including child maltreatment and firearm violence; violence prevention; system responses to violence; quantitative analysis
Clinical Associate Professor, Field Education
Research Interests: Field education; technology and artificial intelligence (AI) in social work practice and learning; community organizing and development; social innovation; social work services in schools
Clinical Associate Professor; MSW Program Director
Research Interests: field education; trauma; trauma-informed practice; refugees and immigrants; veterans
Clinical Associate Professor
Research Interests: the impact of trauma on youth development and familial relationships; evidence-based interventions to treat symptoms of trauma
Associate Professor
Research Interests: microfinance; domestic violence; genocide; political violence; trauma; social movements
Clinical Assistant Professor; Faculty Support Liaison for Racially Underrepresented Students
Research Interests: mental health in the LGBTQIA+ community; anti-racist practices in higher education; racial trauma; substance abuse; generational poverty and trauma of the Black family; decolonizing the social work profession
Associate Professor
Research Interests: asset-building; economic inequality; elderly immigrants; poverty; social welfare policy
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
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
Clinical Associate 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
Professor; Associate Dean for Faculty Development
Research Interests: social work in digital environments; technology for social good; social innovation; and leadership
Clinical Assistant Professor
Research Interests: interventions; social work; non-traditional settings
Associate Professor
Research Interests: trauma; mental health; sexual and reproductive health; interventions; child mental health; health disparities
Associate Professor
Research Interests: gender; trauma; violence; victimization; substance abuse
Associate Professor
Research Interests: interpersonal violence; black male-female relationships; man-sharing
Associate Professor; Director of Field Education
Research Interests: youth violence prevention; community-based participatory research; community-centered violence prevention; community partnership; field education
Professor; Janet B. Wattles Endowed Chair
Research Interests: addictions; interventions; treatment