Full Time Faculty
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 Dean for Faculty Development; Professor
Research Interests: Adolescent Sexuality, Gender, Youth Empowerment
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 Processes592 Baldy Hall, 229 Parker Hall
Phone: 716-645-1247; Fax: 716-645-3456, 716-829-3938
Email: ldbutler@buffalo.edu
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
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
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs; Associate Professor
Research Interests: Adolescent Health, Adolescent Mental Health, HIV Prevention Interventions and Adolescents, LGBT
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; MSW Program Director
Research Interests: Ethnic Minorities, Mental Health, Psychological Empowerment, Substance Abuse
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Asian immigrants, Asian immigrant elders, and their mental health, alcohol use and gambling; immigration and acculturation; community-based research
Clinical Professor; Associate Dean for Community Engagement and Alumni Relations
Research Interests: Interventions, Solution Focused Practice
Clinical Associate Professor; Assistant Dean for Global Partnerships; Director of Field Education
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Child Welfare, Cumulative Adversity, Criminal Justice Responses to Violence, Victimization, Violence
Clinical Assistant Professor, Field Education
Research Interests: Field education, social work services in schools, data and technology in social work
Clinical Assistant Professor, Field Education
Research Interests: Field education; trauma and trauma-informed practice; refugees and immigrants; veterans
Interim Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion; Associate Professor
Research Interests: Microfinance, domestic violence, genocide, political violence, trauma, social movements
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Asset-building, Economic Inequality, Elderly Immigrants, Poverty, Social Welfare Policy
Research Professor
Research Interests: Practice Evaluation, Program Evaluation, Research Methods, Screening Assessment and the Criminal Justice Population, Substance Abuse, Treatment and the Criminal Justice Population577 Baldy Hall, 231 Parker Hall
Phone: 716-645-1245; Fax: 716-645-3456, 716-829-3992
Email: thn@buffalo.edu
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
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Intersection of applied demography, computational social science, and social policy
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
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
Dean; Professor
Research Interests: Social work in digital environments, psychological trauma; addictions; implementation science, and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
Clinical Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Interventions, Social Work and Non-Traditional Settings
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Trauma, Mental Health, Sexual and Reproductive Health, Interventions, Child Mental Health, Health Disparities
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Gender, Trauma, Violence, Victimization, Substance Abuse
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Interpersonal violence; black male-female relationships; man-sharing
Professor; Janet B. Wattles Endowed Chair
Research Interests: addictions, interventions, treatment
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
Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion; Professor
Research Interests: Indigenous Populations, Multicultural Social Work, Refugees
