Barry N. Checkoway

Professor of Social Work, Professor of Urban & Regional Planning

Barry N. Checkoway

Degrees

  • BA, 1969, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT;
  • MA, History, 1971, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia;
  • PhD, History, 1977, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

BioSketch

Barry Checkoway is professor of social work and professor of urban planning. His research interests include increasing involvement of diverse groups in community organization, social planning, and neighborhood development, in addition to community-based research and evaluation and young people creating community change. His research projects include "Youth Dialogues on Race and Ethnicity in Metropolitan Detroit" (Skillman Foundation); "Young People Creating Community Change in the Mississippi Delta" (Highfield Foundation); "Youth Participation in Public Policy at the Municipal Level" (Michigan Municipal League); "Youth Empowerment Solutions for Peaceful Communities" (Centers for Disease Control); "Involving Young People in Community Change" (Ford and Kellogg Foundations); "Community Initiatives to Promote Health of Older People in Latin America" (HelpAge International); "Leadership and Management of Community Health in Africa" (World Health Organization); and "Community Participation in Heath Planning" (National Academy of Sciences).

He is founding director of the Edward Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning, and of the Michigan Neighborhood AmeriCorps Program involving graduate students and community-based organizations in Detroit neighborhoods. He was a visiting scholar at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Other areas of research/scholarly interest: community organization and social planning.


Personal Information
Email barrych@umich.edu
Web Sites  Youth and Community
Mailbox  7
INDI  117
 Location
Room: 3840 SSWB
Phone: (734) 763-5960
Fax: (734) 763-3372
 University of Michigan
School of Social Work
1080 S. University
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Selected Publications

Checkoway, B. N. (2009). Community change for diverse democracy. Community Development Journal, 44(1), 5-21.
Checkoway, B., Figueroa, L., & Richards-Schuster, K. (2008). Youth force in the south Bronx. In D. Brotheron & M. Flynn (Eds.), Globalizing the Streets: Cross-Cultural Perspective on Youth, Social Control and Empowerment. New York: Columbia University Press.
Checkoway, B. N. (2007). Classic texts [Review of the book Twenty years at Hull-House, with autobiographical notes]. Community Development Journal, 42(1), 131-133.
Checkoway, B. N. (2007). Engaged learning, student mental health, and civic development. Peer Review, 9(3), 6-10.
Checkoway, B., & Gutierrez, L. (Eds). (2006). Journal of Community Practice [Special issue on youth and community participation].
Checkoway, B. N., & Richards-Schuster, K. (2006). Youth participation for educational reform in low-income communities of color. In S. Ginwright, P. Noguera, & J. Cammarota (Eds.), Beyond resistance: Youth activism and community change (pp. 319-332). New York: Routledge.
Checkoway, B. N., & Gutierrez, L. (Eds). (2006). Youth participation and community change. New York: Haworth Press.
Checkoway, B. N. (2005). Community change for diverse democracy. Jerusalem: Hebrew University.
Checkoway, B. N., Rignall, K., & Ramakrishnan, A. (2005). Arab Americans arising: Case studies of community-based organizations in three American cities. Dearborn: Arab American Center for Economic and Social Services.
Checkoway, B. N., Allison, T., & Montoya, C. (2005). Youth participation in public policy at the municipal level. Children and Youth Services Review, 27(10), 1149-1162.