Faculty
Academic Areas
Poverty and policy studies; asset building and asset effects; well-being of women and children; social and economic development; theory for research; mixed methods research.
Education
Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis
Academic Areas
Equitable and effective child welfare practices and policies; foster care; adoption; children's mental health; parent substance abuse; domestic violence; parent mental health; implementation research; intervention research; translational research; community-based research; evidence-based practice.
Education
Ph.D., University of Kansas
Academic Areas
Reduce health disparities for survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV); sexual safety planning intervention to address HIV/STI risk, substance use, and trauma.
Education
Ph.D., Arizona State University
Academic Areas
Theories and practices associated with enhancing social and economic justice; community development; micro-enterprise as an anti-poverty strategy; international social development; qualitative and quantitative research.
Education
Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis
Academic Areas
Child welfare management; management reporting; use of data in program improvement planning and management decision making; outcomes research; program evaluation; risk assessment; and abuse/neglect prevention with public assistance populations.
Education
Ph.D., University of Kansas
Academic Areas
Substance abuse across the lifespan, child welfare, family drug courts, substance abuse prevention, community substance abuse strategies, mixed research methods.
Education
Ph.D., University of Kansas
Academic Areas
Social determinants of health and toxic stress; promotion of protective factors; child welfare and early childhood systems improvement; implementation and outcomes evaluation.
Education
Ph.D., University of Kansas
Academic Areas
International organizational practices to engage men in gender-based violence prevention; formal support of new and expectant fathers to reduce child exposure to domestic violence; economic and social justice for families.
Education
Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Academic Areas
Intimate partner violence, at-risk youth, community practice, nonprofit development and management, program development and evaluation, leadership development, collaboration building and conflict resolution, grant writing, strategic planning.
Education
Ph.D., The Ohio State University
Academic Areas
Intergenerational trauma, clinical practice in social work, leadership development, trauma and its impact on behaviors, relationships, and violence in communities, mental health
Education
M.S.W., University of Missouri-Kansas City
Academic Areas
Child welfare and the intersection of the African-American/Black diaspora through the lens of health disparities in rural and urban communities; focusing on the child and maternal well-being as a preventative method of children transitioning into the foster care system.
Education
Ph.D., Virginia Commonwealth University
Academic Areas
Intersections of social work, gerontology, and sexuality; support the sexual needs of aging populations and to improve the health and well-being of LGBTQ midlife and older adults.
Education
Ph.D., University of Washington
Academic Areas
Social consequences of the availability, distribution, and use of psychoactive substances; substance use behaviors among parenting populations; the role of parent substance use in child welfare decision-making; and racial/ethnic disparities within the child welfare system.
Education
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Academic Areas
Ethical decision making in social work practice; social welfare philosophy; International social work development and cross-cultural practices; Central Asian and post-Soviet issues; aging, elder abuse and self-neglect; qualitative research methods.
Education
Ph.D., University of Kansas
Academic Areas
Poverty and economic inequality, asset-based financial aid, social change, strategies for effective policy advocacy by nonprofit organizations, advocacy evaluation, and advocacy capacity-building for individuals and social service organizations.
Education
M.S.W., Washington University in St. Louis
Academic Areas
Policies and services involving adults with mental illness who are involved with the criminal justice system or who are homeless.
Education
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Academic Areas
Understanding and intervening on mental health disparities experienced by sexual minority individuals, particularly disparities in depression and alcohol use disorders.
Education
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Academic Areas
Children’s mental health including serious mental illness, service utilization, parent and child education and the impact of mental illness on children and their families.
Education
Ph.D., The Ohio State University
Academic Areas
Understanding the impact of non-urban communities on the health and well-being of gender and sexual minority (GSM youth; development, sustainability, and evaluation of gender and sexual minority community organizations.
Education
Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Academic Areas
Culturally grounded social work practice with oppressed populations, diversity, equity and inclusion in social work education, children and families, and evaluation of culturally adapted practices.
Tribal Affiliation
Turtle Mountain, Band of Chippewas
Education
M.S.W., University of Kansas
Academic Areas
Nonsuicidal self-injury across the lifespan, child and adolescent mental health and trauma, centering the perspectives of youth with marginalized identities, integrating micro and macro approaches, mixed methods research
Education
Ph.D., University of Utah
Academic Areas
Anti-poverty programs and policies; social justice; policy and social change strategies.
Education
Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis
Academic Areas
Children and families, Latino immigrant families, rural youth, school, health, psychodrama techniques.
Education
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
