Faculty News

Professor William Elliott III was featured on the podcast, "Straight Talk with Frank Sweeny" to discuss his book, "The Real College Debt Crisis: How Student Borrowing Threatens Financial Well-Being and Erodes the American Dream."

Director of Joint Doctoral Program and Associate Professor Daphne Watkins' Twitter account (@WatkinsResearch) was ranked the #4 must-follow social media account in Ann Arbor by Concentrate Ann Arbor. 

Associate Professors Shawna Lee and Andy Grogan-Kaylor had their article, “Spanking and adult mental health impairment: The case for the designation of spanking as an Adverse Childhood Experience” in a special issue of Child Abuse & Neglect on corporal punishment, which was published in September. Their research was featured in The Conversation article, “Why parents should never spank children.”

Assistant Professor Cristina Bares gave her Feast of Ideas talk, "Genes and the Environment: How the Environment Gets Under the Skin" on Thursday evening, as part of the Umich Bicentennial Fall Festival. 

Associate Dean for Research and Professor Joe Himle, Associate Professor Matthew Smith, and Assistant Professor Addie Weaver's Treatment, Innovation and Dissemination Lab (TIDL) was featured in The Michigan Daily article, "TIDL launches new website, continues work on mental health research."

Associate Professor Luke Shaefer's research was cited in the Slate article, "Democrats Have a Bill That Would Halve the Child Poverty Rate. It Likely Costs Less Than Trump's Tax Cut" and the Vox article, "Senate Democrats have a plan that would cut child poverty nearly in half."

Associate Dean of Faculty and Academic Affairs and Professor Ruth Dunkle, Professor Berit Ingersoll-Dayton, and Professor Emerita Letha Chadiha's article, "Forms and Meanings of Respect: Aging Mothers and Adult Daughters With Mental Illness" was published in Families in Society. 

Professor Robert Joseph Taylor gave the 2017 Carl A. Scott Lecture on October 21 at the Council on Social Work Education annual meeting in Dallas. The title of his talk was "Extended Family and Congregational Support Networks Among African Americans."

The Carl A. Scott Memorial Lecture Series was established to continue the legacy of equity and social justice in social work through building knowledge and furthering the well-being of individuals and their communities. Taylor is recognized for his prolific and highly influential research on African American families, and his leading role in mentoring and shaping a new generation of African American scholars. The School hosted a celebration for Taylor at the CSWE meeting in honor of this recognition.