Faculty Profiles
Full-time Faculty
Maryann Amodeo, PhD, MSW
Professor
Clinical Practice
Chair, Clinical Practice
Co-Director, Center for Addictions Research and Services
Sara S. Bachman, PhD, MS
Associate Professor
Social Research
Director, Interdisciplinary PhD Program
Deanne Bonnar, PhD, MSW
Clinical Associate Professor
Social Welfare Policy
Coordinator, Racism Course
Mary Elizabeth Collins, PhD, MA
Associate Professor
Social Welfare Policy
Kate Cooney, PhD, MSW
Assistant Professor
Macro Practice
Co-Director, Social Welfare Analysis Colloquium
Marah A. Curtis, PhD, MSW
Assistant Professor
Social Welfare Policy
Co-Director, Social Welfare Analysis Colloquium
Melvin Delgado, PhD, MS
Professor
Chair, Macro Practice
Co-Director, Center for Addictions Research and Services
Ellen Ransel DeVoe, PhD, MSW
Associate Professor
Clinical Practice
Ruth I. Freedman, PhD, MSW
Associate Professor
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Janice Furlong, MSW
Clinical Associate Professor
Clinical Practice
Director, Certificate in Clinical Social Work and Behavioral Medicine
Scott Miyake Geron, PhD, AM
Associate Professor
Social Welfare Policy
Director, Institute for Geriatric Social Work
Mark Gianino, PhD, MSW
Clinical Assistant Professor
Clinical Practice
Judith G. Gonyea, PhD, MSW
Professor
Chair, Social Research
Hyeouk Chris Hahm, PhD, MSSW
Assistant Professor
Clinical Practice and Social Research
Robert B. Hudson, PhD
Professor
Chair, Social Welfare Policy
Luz Marilis López, PhD, MSW, MPH
Assistant Professor
Clinical Practice
Lena Lundgren, PhD, MA
Professor
Social Welfare Policy
Director, Center for Addictions Research and Services
Donna McLaughlin, Postgraduate Certificate, MSW
Clinical Assistant Professor
Clinical Practice
Joseph R. Merighi, PhD, MSW
Associate Professor
Chair, Human Behavior in the Social Environment
Daniel P. Miller, PhD, MA
Assistant Professor
Human Behavior
Lisa Moore, PhD, MSW
Visiting Assistant Professor
Clinical Practice
Jordana Muroff, PhD, MSW
Assistant Professor
Clinical Practice
Ruth Paris, PhD, MSW
Assistant Professor
Clinical Practice
Director, Family Therapy Certificate Program
Humberto Reynoso-Vallejo, PhD, MSW, MA
Assistant Professor
Human Behavior in the Social Environment and Social Welfare Policy
Betty J. Ruth, MSW, MPH
Clinical Associate Professor
Human Behavior in the Social Environment
Director, Dual Degree Program in Social Work and Public Health
Coordinator, Ethics Course
Sunny Hyucksun Shin, PhD, MSW
Assistant Professor
Human Behavior in the Social Environment
Director, Dual Degree Program in Social Work and Theology
Renée Spencer, EdD, MSSW
Associate Professor
Human Behavior in the Social Environment
Lee H. Staples, PhD, MSW
Clinical Professor
Macro Practice
Gail Steketee, PhD, MSS
Professor
Dean
Nikki Wooten, PhD, MSW
Assistant Professor
Clinical Practice
Part-Time Faculty
Julie Springwater, MSW
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Macro Practice
Lecturers /Adjunct Faculty
Christiana Bratiotis, PhD, Clinical Practice
Deborah Chassler, MSW, Social Research
Alice Cohen, MSW, Human Behavior in the Social Environment
Rick Cresta, MSW, Clinical Practice, Ethics
Gary Eager, MSW, Clinical Practice
Kevin Hepner, BSBA, Macro Practice
Hannah Karpman, MSW, Social Welfare Policy
Terry Lewis, MSW, Clinical Practice
Faith Little, MSW, Social Research
Lorna McKenzie-Pollock, PhD, MSW, Human Behavior in the Social Environment
Kelly Mills-Dick, MSW, Social Research
Judith Perlstein, MSW, Human Behavior in the Social Environment
Sue Plasse, MSW, Clinical Practice
Mojdeh Rohani, MSW, Human Behavior in the Social Environment
Sheila Schwartz, JD, MSW, Social Welfare Policy
Louisa Sylvia, PhD, Clinical Practice
Toni Tugenberg, MSW, Social Research
Jacqueline Turpin, MSW, Clinical Practice
Laila Vehvilainen, MSW, Social Research
Sue White, MSW, Macro Practice
Trudy Zimmerman, EdM, MSSS, Clinical Practice
Current Emeriti Deans and Professors
Leonard Bloksberg (Professor Emeritus)
Daniel Carter (Professor Emeritus)
Cassandra Clay (Professor Emerita)
Carolyn Dillon (Professor Emerita)
Trudy Duffy (Professor Emerita)
Mildred Flashman (Professor Emerita)
James Garland (Professor Emeritus)
Hubert Jones (Dean Emeritus, 1977 to 1993)
Kay Jones (Professor Emerita)
Ralph Kolodny (Professor Emeritus)
Lois Levinsky (Professor Emerita)
Betty Milhendler (Professor Emerita)
Wilma Peebles-Wilkins (Dean Emerita, 1993 to 2006)
Catherine Riessman (Professor Emerita)
Joyce West Stevens (Professor Emerita)
