Graduates
Graduates are in leadership positions in local, national, and international settings, including universities, social welfare organizations, and government. There is a growing demand for social work faculty with PhD training. The interdisciplinary focus of the PhD program and its strong research component make our graduates especially competitive for these academic positions.
Recent Dissertations
| Author | Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Kelly Mills-Dick | Voices from the Street: Exploring how Older Adults and Outreach Workers Define and Mitigate Problems Associated with Urban Elder Homelessness | 2011 |
| Jennifer Meade | Who Has the Power? Diversity and Discourse Within Domestic Violence Organizations | 2011 |
| Cesar Abarca | Laboring in the Margins: An Examination of Undocumented Latino Immigrants | 2011 |
| Sook Hyun Kim | Niches’ of Youth Empowerment: A Study of North Korean Refugee Organizations | 2011 |
| Terrence Omar Lewis | The Phenomenon of LGBT Affirming Black Churches and their Response to the HIV/AIDs Crisis in Black America | 2011 |
| Sviatlana Smashnaya | Opportunity to succeed or freedom to fail in building high-impact nonprofits: The role of internal and external factors in shaping the performance of youth-oriented non profit organizations in a transitional society like Belarus | 2010 |
| N. Diane Gout | Cultural identity and familial relationships as protective factors against intimate partner violence among American Indian and Alaska native mothers | 2010 |
| Rolanda Ward | “I Took a Break, But Now I am Back”: Foster Youths’ Perspectives on Leaving and Returning | 2009 |
| Christiana Bratiotis | Task Force Community Response to Compulsive Hoarding Cases | 2009 |
| Lisa Zerden | Acculturation and needle sharing: A Dual Site Student of Puerto Rican Injection Drug Users | 2008 |
| Jie Ha Lee | Sexual health disparities among racial/ethnic minority females: STDS and sexual risk behaviors | 2008 |
| Therese Fitzgerald | HIV/AIDS risk reduction health service utilization among injection drug using women | 2008 |
| Margaret Boyd | American Apartheid revisited: African American and West Indian Homeowners in Mattapan | 2007 |
| Michelle Strout | Evidenced-based practices for substance abuse prevention: Reports from the front line | 2006 |
| Nicole Dubus | Permission to be authentic: A qualitative study of paraprofessional providers and recipients of a home-visiting program | 2006 |
| Blanca Alvarado |
Exploitation in the shadows: Unauthorized latina migrants tell their story | 2006 |
| Silvia Dominguez | Latina immigrants in Public Housing: Race Relations, Social Networks and Access to Servcies | 2005 |
| Iris Cohen | Early professional socialization: Evaluation of multidisciplinary palliative care education for social work and medical students | 2002 |
| Cynthia Hazen | A socio-cultural analysis of the ethical standards of care for psychotherapy professions in the United States: Psychiatry, psychology and social work | 2001 |
| Ellin Reisner | Work/family spillover: A qualitative study of public transportation operators | 2001 |
| Hope Worden | The effects of race and class on women’s experience of domestic violence | 2001 |
| Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes | Workplace responsiveness to work/life issues: Focusing on the small business experience | 2000 |
| Karen Bullock | Employment and caregiving: A comparison of three ethnic groups of disabled elders and their informal caregivers | 2000 |
