Charity Hoffman Defends Dissertation, "The 21st Century Mother: How New Moms Navigate Work, Family and the Struggle to Have it All”
Charity Hoffman successfully defended her dissertation "The 21st Century Mother: How New Moms Navigate Work, Family and the Struggle to Have it All” and obtained her PhD in Social Work and Sociology. Her committee consisted of Karin Martin, Katie Richards-Schuster (co-chairs), Fatma Muge Gocek and Mary Ruffolo. Hoffman has accepted a Research Project Coordinator position at UM's Women & Infants Mental Health Program in the Department of Psychiatry.
Rachel Burrage Defends Dissertation, "Trauma, Loss, Resilience, and Resistance in the Beauval Indian Residential School”
Rachel Burrage successfully defended her dissertation "Trauma, Loss, Resilience, and Resistance in the Beauval Indian Residential School” and obtained her PhD in Social Work and Psychology. Her committee consisted of Joseph Gone, Sandra Momper (co-chairs), Donna Nagata and Karen Staller. She has accepted a tenure track faculty position with University of Hawaii at the Manoa's Myron B. Thompson School of Social Work.
Laura Yakas Defends Dissertation and Earns PhD in Social Work and Anthropology
Laura Yakas successfully defended her dissertation "Love in a Time of Madness: The Importance of Purpose and Belonging in Healing and Harnessing Madness". Her committee consisted of Karen Staller, Damani Partridge (co-chairs), Richard Tolman and Holly Peters-Golden. Yakas has accepted a summer position at a Global Leadership Forum for high school students.
Social Justice in Social Work Research PhD Poster Award Recipients
Kathryn Berringer, Alex Lu (MSW student) and Joyce Y. Lee received the Doctoral Poster Awards at the School of Social Work's Social Justice in Social Work Research Symposium. Berringer was awarded for her poster, "Examining Drivers of Health Inequities in HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Implementation in the US". Lu and Lee for their poster "Spank, Smack, & Whoop”: Stay-At-Home Parents’ Spanking Tweets".
Joyce Lee Accepted as a Student Editorial Board Member for the Journal Child Maltreatment
Joyce Lee, PhD student, was accepted as a student editorial board member for the journal Child Maltreatment for 2018-2019.
Garrett Pace (PhD Student) Published in “Handbook of Life Course Health Development”
Garrett Pace’s (PhD student) book chapter, “Using the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCWS) in Life Course Health Development Research“ was published in the “Handbook of Life Course Health Development”.
Daphne Watkins Selected to Speak at SSWR Annual Conference's Brief and Brilliant
Director of Joint PhD Program and Associate Professor Daphne Watkins is one of five social work scholars selected to be featured at the Society for Social Work and Research's (SSWR) Brief and Brilliant TEDx-style session in January. This year’s conference theme is "Achieving Equal Opportunity, Equity and Justice". Related to this theme, each speaker will be asked to complete the statement “I dream a world….”. The Brief and Brilliant session was developed last year with the goal of translating social work research to engage a broad audience and emphasize the public relevance of this work.
Daphne Watkins Cited in NBC News Article on Hip Hop and Mental Health in Black Males
Director of Joint PhD Program and Associate Professor Daphne Watkins was cited in the NBC News article, “Hip-hop works to break down mental health stigma for black men.”
Lisa Larance (PhD student) Published in Journal of Women and Social Work
Lisa Larance’s (PhD student) article, “Strategically Stealthy: Women’s Agency in Navigating Spousal Violence” was published in the Journal of Women and Social Work.
Angie Perone (PhD student) Published in PrideSource on Nursing Home Violations
Angie Perone’s (PhD student) op-ed, “Navigating Nursing Home Violations, Dwindling Protections, and Potential Solutions for LGBT Older Adults” was published in PrideSource.