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SW 895/898 - Research Project Information

For 2nd year MSW students planning for the SW 895/898 Culminating Experience Projects, following are names of faculty who are interested in working with students on their projects, as well as their research interests.

Rashmi Gupta

Jocelyn Hermoso
  • International Social Work
  • Community Organizing
  • Community-Driven Development
  • Social Capital
  • Civil Society
  • Gender and Peacemaking
  • Post-Conflict Reconstruction
  • Information & Communication Technology (ICT) for Development
Lisa Hines, Ph.D. Assistant Professor
  • Aging
  • Group Work
  • Community Organizing
  • Social Work Education
  • Child Welfare Training and Policy
  • Health Issues in Communities of Color
Liz Knox, Ed.D., Assistant Professor
  • Mental health issues in African American children and families related to attachment and transition processes; children in kinship care
  • Culturally-specific parenting curricula applicable to families in the Child Welfare system.
  • Research using ethnographic interviewing
John Lemmon, Ph.D. Professor
  • Mediation and conflict resolution
  • Family and workplace issues
  • Other topics based on student interest
Sonja Lenz Rashid, PhD, LCSW, Assistant Professor
  • Homelessness
  • Mental health
  • Substance abuse
  • Adolescence
  • Youth aging out of foster care
  • Program evaluation
Eileen Levy, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Director
  • Lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgendered issues
  • Cross-cultural social work practice
  • Feminist social work practice
Dina Redman, MSW, MPH, Ph.D. candidate, Assistant Professor
  • Mental health and psychology
  • Trauma, Stress, coping, and resiliency
  • Substance use
  • Topics related to criminalization and incarceration
  • Program planning and evaluation
  • International social work and public health
Jerry Shapiro, Ph.D., Professor
  • Crisis intervention
  • Legal advocacy
  • Developmental theory
  • Social policy analysis