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Karen M. Staller

Professor of Social Work

Karen M. Staller

Karen Staller, PhD, JD, received her educational training at Cornell Law School and Columbia University School of Social Work, where her dissertation on runaway and homeless youth was awarded with distinction. Staller practiced public interest law with low-income senior citizens and at-risk adolescents in New York City. Her scholarship focuses primarily on runaway and homeless youth (and other at-risk adolescents). She is interested in the complicated interplay between social problem construction, social service delivery, and social policy. Her book published by Columbia University Press, Runaways: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped Today's Practices and Policies, entertains this interplay. Her scholarship starts from a constructionist epistemological perspective and is in the interpretivist tradition. She blends her legal and social work training in her scholarship, research methodology, and her approach to teaching. She teaches in the areas of social welfare policy, child and family policy, and qualitative research methods.

Research Interests/Focus

Runaway and homeless youth, law, social problem construction, history of social welfare, qualitative research methods.

Contact Information

PhoneEmailRoomAddress
(734) 763-5769kstaller@umich.edu2702 SSWBUniversity of Michigan
School of Social Work
1080 S. University
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Education

Year Degree   School
1999 PhD Social Policy Columbia University, New York, NY
1995 MPhil Social Policy Columbia University, New York, NY
1985 JD Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
1979 BA Art History Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

News

Year Description
2023 Doering-White, J., Mathias, J., Gonzalez-Benson, O. & Staller, K.M. (2023). Return to normal inequality? Social Work and the Anticipated aftermath of the pandemic Society for Social Work Research.
2023 Routté, I., Hong, S., Harris, E. and Staller, K.M., (2023). Advancing Ecological Systems Theory in Social Work Theory and Practice: Integrating History and Place into an Ecological Framework. Society for Social Work Research.
2023 Staller, K.M. & Laughton, C.D. (2023). Publishing Workshop for Qualitative Researchers: Tips of the Trade. 19th Annual International Congress on Qualitative Inquiry. May 2023.
2023 Staller, K.M., (2023). Spotlight on Key Issues in Qualitative Inquiry. Panel, Chair. Staller, K. M. “Surveilling Faculty: Neoliberal university alignment with for-profit corporations. “19th Annual International Congress on Qualitative Inquiry. May 2023.
2022 Drisko, J. and Staller, K. M. Qualitative Research Generalizability and Sampling. SIG Power Hour.
2022 Laughton, C. D. and Staller, K. M. (2022). Getting Successfully Published. 18th Annual International Congress on Qualitative Inquiry.
2022 Gilgun, J., Drisko, J. and Staller, K.M. (2022). What drives me to the research I do? 18th Annual International Congress on Qualitative Inquiry.
2020 Staller, K. M., Levin, N., Chen, Y., Bakko, M, Berringer, K. (2020, January). Implicit Epistemological Privileging: Structures of Knowledge (re)Production in the Social Work Academy. Society for Social Work Research: Washington, D.C.
2020 Staller K.M., & Jackson Levin, N. (2020, November). In conversation with Karen M. Staller: ‘New York’s Newsboys: Charles Loring Brace and the founding of the Children’s Aid Society.’ Online workshop, University of Michigan School of Social Work Doctoral Student Organization. Ann Arbor, MI.
2019 Staller, K. M. (2019, May). Workshop on Writing Articles of Publication. 15th Annual International Congress on Qualitative Inquiry. Urbana, IL.
2018 Staller, K. M. & Laughton, D. (2018, May). Workshop on Writing Articles for Publication. 14th Annual International Congress on Qualitative Inquiry. Urbana, IL.
2018 Fogel, S.J., Busch-Armendariz, N., Gilgun, J., Robbins, S.P., & Staller, K. M. (2018, January). Invited Journal Editors Panel II: Journal editors’ forum on publishing qualitative research. Society for Social Work Research. Washington, D.C.
2018 Gomez, A., Denzin, N.K., & Staller, K. M. (2018, May). Spotlight Panel: Contesting Accountability Metrics. 14th Annual International Congress on Qualitative Inquiry. Urbana, IL.
2018 Staller, K. M. (2018, May). Keynote Address: Stitching Tattered Cloth: Reflections on Social Justice and Qualitative Inquiry in Troubled Times. 14th Annual International Congress on Qualitative Inquiry. Urbana, IL.
2008 Staller, K. M., & Gilgun, J. (2008, May). Evidence-based practice in social work: Where are we going? How do we get there? Invited pre-conference workshop presented at the Fourth International Congress on Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois, Urbana.
2008 Staller, K. M. (2008, October). Community forum: A critical conversation about runaway youth. Presented at The Booksmith, Haight Street, San Francisco, CA
2008 Staller, K. M., & Reisch, M. (2008, November). Dissonant voices: Teaching social policy and social welfare history from a conflict perspective. Presented at the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE), 45th Annual Program Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.
2008 Wells, K., Gilgun, J., & Staller, K. M. (2008, January). Narrative means to a social work end. Presented at the SSWR, Washington, DC.
2007 Staller, K. M., & Gilgun, J. (2007, May). Evidence-based practice in social work: Where are we going? How do we get there? Invited pre-conference workshop presented at the Third International Congress on Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois, Urbana.
2006 Staller, K. M. (2006, May). Evidence-based practice in social work: Where are we going? How do we get there? Presented at the Second International Congress on Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois, Urbana.
2006 Staller, K. M., & Doyle, K. (2006, June). Ozone House past and present. Presented at the "Collaboratory" between Ozone House and University of Michigan School of Social Work, Ann Arbor, MI.
2005 Staller, K. M. (2005, January). Running away to the sixties beat. Presented at the University of Chicago, School of Social Service Administration, Chicago, IL.
2004 Staller, K. M. (2004, January). Successful runaways. Poster Presented at SSWR, New Orleans, LA.
2004 Staller, K. M., & Buch, E. (2004, January). Qualitative methods: Creating depth through case study. Paper presented as part of symposium, Using Diverse Methods to Understand Successful Child Sexual Abuse Prosecutions, at the Society for Social Work and Research, New Orleans, LA.
2004 Staller, K. M., & Wells, K. (2004, October). Biographical narrative/Interpretative method (BNIM). Presented at the UMSSW, Doctoral Workshop, Ann Arbor, MI.
2003 Staller, K. M. (2003, February). Is government funding in social programs of religious organizations a good thing? Keynote address presented at the Interfaith Roundtable of Washtenaw County, Ann Arbor, MI.
2002 Staller, K. M. (2002, January). Computer assisted qualitative software: HyperResearch workshop. Presented at SSWR, San Diego, CA.
2002 Staller, K. M. (2002, February). The art, science and politics of coding qualitative data. Presented at the Institute for Social Research, Ann Arbor, MI.
2002 Staller, K. M. (2002, March). Introduction to HyperResearch. Presented at the UM Faculty Exploratory, Ann Arbor, MI.
2001 Staller, K. M., & Nelson-Gardell (2001, January). Temporal Disclosures: The therapeutic implications of re-telling in adolescent sexual abuse survivors. Presented at QUIG, Athens, GA.
2000 Staller, K. M. (2000, January). Acknowledged development: Transition to academic social work. Presented at QUIG, Athens, GA.
1999 Staller, K. M. (1999, March). Psychedelic social workers of the sixties: Digger impact on federal runaway legislation. Presented at the Council on Social Work Education, Annual Program Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
1998 Staller, K. M. (1998, June). Acknowledging relics: Looking past the present of the CUSSW doctoral program. Presented at the CUSSW and Doctoral Education: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow, CUSSW Centennial Celebration. New York City.
1996 Staller, K. M. (1996, February). Policy-problem evaluation: Engaging practice students in the study of social policy. Presented at the Council on Social Work Education, Annual Program Meeting, Washington, DC.

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