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Ayse Akincigil
Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Rutgers
Dr. Akincigil's research interests include aging and mental health, economics, and HIV/AIDS.
aakinci@rci.rutgers.edu
Judith
Baer
Associate Professor; Ph.D., Houston
Dr. Baer's research interests include life-span development and adolescent
development.
jcbaer@rci.rutgers.edu
DuWayne Battle
Director of Baccaulaureate Program; Ph.D., Rutgers University
Dr. Battle's research interests include religion and spirituality, bereavement, and diversity.
dbattle@rci.rutgers.edu
Allison Blake
Lecturer(Professor); Director, Institute for Families
Ph.D. Fordham
amblake@rci.rutgers.edu
Stephen Crystal
Professor; Ph.D., Harvard
Dr. Crystal's research interests include AIDS, long-term care, homelessness, and longitudinal data analysis.
scrystal@rci.rutgers.edu
Laura Curran
Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Berkeley
Dr. Curran's research interests include family and child policy practice, welfare policy, social welfare history/theory, gender and sexuality.
lacurran@rci.rutgers.edu
Mary Edna Davidson
Professor; Ph.D. Brandeis
Dr. Davidson's research interests include child welfare, advocacy research, and equity analysis of public social policy.
davidsn@rci.rutgers.edu
Rebecca Davis
Visiting Associate Professor; Ph.D., North Carolina at Greensboro
Dr. Davis' research interests include international social work, clinical practice, and child welfare.
redavis@rci.rutgers.edu
Ericka Deglau
Instructor; Ph.D., New School
Dr. Deglau's research interests include the history of policy and practice, child welfare and HIV/AIDS.
edeglau@rci.rutgers.edu
Donald T. Dickson
Professor; J.D., Chicago; Ph.D., Michigan
Dr. Dickson's research interests include law, child welfare, mental health, and administration.
ddickson@rci.rutgers.edu
Richard L. Edwards
Dean and Professor; Ph.D., SUNY at Albany
Dr. Edwards' research interests include nonprofit and public management, international social work, and social work education.
redwards@rci.rutgers.edu Curriculum Vita
Antoinette Rodgers-Farmer
Associate Dean and Associate Professor; Ph.D., Pittsburgh
Dr. Farmer's research interests include parenting behavior, kinship care, AIDS knowledge and prevention, and evaluation of social work practice.
yvetta@rci.rutgers.edu
Patricia Findley
Research Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Illinois at Chicago
Dr. Findley's research interests include disability, rehabilitation, and chronic illness.
pfindley@rci.rutgers.edu
Emmett Gill
Dr. Gill's research interests include student-athlete identity development, substance abuse in collegiate athletics, collegiate sports policy, and Race & Gender in Sport.
egill@rci.rutgers.edu
Paul H. Glasser
Professor; Ph.D., North Carolina
Dr. Glasser's research interests include family theory, small group theory, and practice.
Paul2650@netvision.net.il
Emily Greenfield
Assistant Professor; Ph.D.; University of Wisconsin, Madison
Dr. Greenfield's research interests include gerontology, lifespan development, social relationships, and mental and physical health.
egreenf@rci.rutgers.edu
Susan Higgins
Instructor; M.S.W., Rutgers
Ms. Higgins' research interests include evidence based learning. decindis@camden.rutgers.edu
Chien-Chung Huang
Assistant Professor; Ph.D.; Columbia
Dr. Huang's research interests include child support, social assistance, poverty, and income redistribution.
huangc@rci.rutgers.edu
Richard Isralowitz
Visiting Professor; Ph.D.; Brandeis
Dr. Isralowitz's research interests include drug and alcohol abuse, public policy and human services management.
huangc@rci.rutgers.edu
Yvonne M. Johnson
Assistant Professor, Ph.D.; Columbia
Dr. Johnson's research interests include end of life decisions, advance directives, history and philosophy of social work.
ymj@rci.rutgers.edu
Myungkook Joo
Assistant Research Professor; Ph.D., Washington University, St. Louis
Dr. Joo's research interests include early childhood development, analyses of policies and programs designed to help low-income children, and effects of poverty and economic inequality on children's outcomes.
myungjoo@rci.rutgers.edu
Michael LaSala
Associate Professor; Ph.D., SUNY at Albany
Dr. LaSala's research interests include clinical social work, gay and lesbian issues, and marriage and family therapy.
mlasala@rci.rutgers.edu
Raymond Sanchez Mayers
Associate Professor; Ph.D., Brandeis
Dr. Sanchez Mayers' research interests include financial management in nonprofits, administrative issues, and Hispanic issues.
mayers@rci.rutgers.edu
David Mechanic
University Professor; Ph.D., Stanford
Dr. Mechanic's research interests include medical sociology, evaluation research, and social policy.
mechanic@rci.rutgers.edu
Judith McCoyd
Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Bryn Mawr
Dr. McCoyd's research interests include medical decision making, bereavement and "feeling rules" in medical technologies
jmccoyd@rci.rutgers.edu
Darcey Merritt
Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Dr. Merritt's research interests include child welfare policies and services, the economic sustainability of abusive and neglectful parents, poverty, neighborhood structual impact on parenting, and family violence.
darceym@rci.rutgers.edu
Claudia Moreno
Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Ohio State
Dr. Moreno's interests include HIV/AIDS and women's issues.
clmoreno@rci.rutgers.edu
Shari Munch
Associate Professor; Ph.D., Michigan State
Dr. Munch's research interests include health care, women's health care, perinatal ethics and bereavement, and psychosocial aspects of high-risk pregnancy.
smunch@rci.rutgers.edu
Lia Nower
Associate Professor and Director, Center for Gambling Studies; J.D., St. Louis University; Ph.D., Washington University
Dr. Nower's research interests include pathological gambling, substance abuse, and other addictive disorders; forensic issues in mental health.
lnower@rutgers.edu
Judy L. Postmus
Assistant Professor and Director, Center on Violence Against Women & Children; Ph.D., SUNY-Albany
Dr. Postmus' research interests include violence against women including intimate partner violence and sexual assault; impact of policies and services on abuse survivors and their children; interagency collaboration models.
postmus@rci.rutgers.edu
Kathleen J. Pottick
Professor; Ph.D., Michigan
Dr. Pottick's research interests include child and adolescent mental health and psychiatric delivery systems.
pottick@rci.rutgers.edu
Jonathan David Prince
Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Berkeley
Dr. Prince's research interests include youth services and mental health care.
jdprince@rci.rutgers.edu
Cassandra Simmel
Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Dr. Simmel's research interests include child welfare programs and services, especially concerning youth transitioning out of care, and child and youth. mental health
csimmel@rci.rutgers.edu
William Waldman
Lecturer and Executive in Residence; M.S.W., Rutgers
Mr. Waldman's research interests include administration, policy, and planning.
bwaldman@rci.rutgers.edu
Allison Zippay
Associate Dean and Associate Professor; Ph.D., California at Berkeley
Dr. Zippay's research interests include poverty and employment policy, community development, and social networks.
zippay@rci.rutgers.edu
"One aim of my work is to dispel myths and stereotypes about the poor, about low-income groups. I want to engage students in critical analysis of various problems and to look at how we can assemble community development and social welfare programs to improve well-being among low-income groups."
| Dr. Allison
Zippay
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