Full-Time Faculty

Keith A. Alford

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

D. Michael Applegarth

Assistant Professor

Research Interests: criminal legal system; mental illness and recovery; community supervision; juvenile justice; desistance from crime

Amanda Aykanian

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

Enoch Azasu

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

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

Professor

Research Interests: addictions; substance use; interventions

Lisa Butler

Associate Professor

Research Interests: trauma and resilience; trauma-informed practice; veterans and their families; dissociative processes

Filomena M. Critelli

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

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 partnerships

Susan A. Green

Clinical Professor

Research Interests: child welfare; children and families; community

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 H. 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

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

JoAnn S. Lee

Associate Professor

Research Interests: transitions to adulthood; juvenile justice; child welfare; youth aging out of foster care; agent-based modeling

Laura A. Lewis

Clinical Associate Professor; Assistant Dean for Global Partnerships

Research Interests: community-university partnerships; practicum education; technology in social work practice; adolescent mental health

Patricia Logan-Greene

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

Michael Lynch

Clinical Associate Professor, Field Education

Research Interests: practicum education; technology and artificial intelligence (AI) in social work practice and learning; community organizing and development; social innovation; social work services in schools

Kathryn McClain-Meeder

Clinical Associate Professor; MSW Program Director

Research Interests: practicum education; trauma; trauma-informed practice; refugees and immigrants; veterans

Brenda McQuillan

Clinical Associate Professor

Research Interests: the impact of trauma on youth development and familial relationships; evidence-based interventions to treat symptoms of trauma

Nadine Shaanta Murshid

Associate Professor

Research Interests: violence; microfinance; fintech; migration

Tonya Myles-Day

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

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

Alexander Rubin

Clinical Assistant Professor, Field Education

Research Interests: practicum education; acceptance and commitment therapy; technology and social work

Todd Sage

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

Nancy J. Smyth

Professor; Associate Dean for Faculty Development

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; non-traditional settings

Mickey Sperlich

Associate Professor

Research Interests: trauma; mental health; sexual and reproductive health; interventions; child mental health; health disparities

Christopher St. Vil

Associate Professor

Research Interests: gender; trauma; violence; victimization; substance abuse

Noelle M. St. Vil

Associate Professor

Research Interests: interpersonal violence; black male-female relationships; man-sharing

Katie C. Stalker

Associate Professor; Director of Field Education

Research Interests: youth violence prevention; community-based participatory research; community-centered violence prevention; community partnership; practicum education

Paul R. Stasiewicz

Professor; Janet B. Wattles Endowed Chair

Research Interests: addictions; interventions; treatment