Social Welfare Analysis Colloquium
Speaker Bios - Spring 2009
Kate Cooney
Assistant Professor, Boston University School of Social Work
Kate Cooney is an Assistant Professor at the Boston University School of Social Work. Dr. Cooney received her Ph.D. in 2003 and M.S.W. in 1998 from the UCLA Department of Social Welfare in the School of Public Policy and Social Research (now the School of Public Affairs). Her research focuses on commercialization in the nonprofit sector; nonprofit ventures and social purpose businesses; poverty, workforce development and labor markets; welfare reform; and policy implementation in human service organizations. Professor Cooney is currently developing a new survey study of nonprofit organizations utilizing business enterprise to provide workforce development and job creation for vulnerable populations. The survey aims to further develop the theoretical framework she developed in earlier work on the relationship between organizational field forces, organizational structure, and risk. Other research projects under development include a study of the Boston Summer Jobs program. Recent publications include: The institutional and technical structuring of nonprofit ventures: Case study of a U.S. hybrid organization caught between two fields. Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations (2006, vol. 17, p.143-161), Fields, organizations, and agency: Towards a multi-level theory of institutionalization in action. Administration & Society (2007, 39, 687-718) and The promise and pitfalls of employer-linked training for disadvantaged populations. Administration in Social Work (forthcoming, 33).
Henry Braun
Boisi Professor of Education and Public Policy at Boston College
Henry Braun is the Boisi Professor of Education and Public Policy at Boston College. From 1979 to 2006 he was employed at the Educational Testing Service where he was the Director of the Division of Statistical and Psychometric Research (1982-9), Vice-president for Research Management (1989-1999), and Distinguished Presidential Appointee (1999-2006). He was elected a fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1991. He is a co-recipient of the 1986 Palmer O. Johnson Award of the American Educational Research Association and a co-recipient of the National Council for Measurement in Education’s 1999 Award for Outstanding Technical Contribution to the Field of Educational Measurement. In recent years, he has published on a variety of topics including the Black-White achievement gap, value-added modeling, comparative school effectiveness, applications of multi-level modeling, the role of literacy in economic and social welfare, test design and standard setting. He also has served as an advisor to educational institutions in Japan and Israel, as well as the OECD. He currently chairs the Value-added consensus panel convened under the auspices of the National Research Council.
Corrie Stone-Johnson
Doctoral Candidate, Curriculum and Instruction, Lynch School of Education, Boston College
Corrie Stone-Johnson is a doctoral candidate in Curriculum and Instruction at the Lynch School of Education at Boston College. Her areas of interest include educational change, the study of teachers' and school leaders' lives and careers, generational theory, network theory, and sustainability in education. She is the author of "Regenerating Teachers," which will be published in 2010 in Teachers' Career Trajectories and Work Lives, and co-author with Dr. Andy Hargreaves of "Evidence-informed Change and the Practice of Teaching," which will be published in 2009 in The Role of Research in Educational Improvement.
Jane Waldfogel
Professor of Social Work and Public Affairs, Columbia University School of Social Work, Research Associate at the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, London School of Economics
Jane Waldfogel is a professor of social work and public affairs at Columbia University School of Social Work and a research associate at the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion at the London School of Economics. During the 2008-09 academic year, she is the Marion Cabot Putnam Memorial Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study where she is writing a book on Britain’s war on poverty. Waldfogel received her Ph.D. in public policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. She has written extensively on the impact of public policies on child and family well-being. Her books include Steady Gains and Stalled Progress: Inequality and the Black-White Test Score Gap (Russell Sage Foundation, 2008), What Children Need (Harvard University Press, 2006), Securing the Future: Investing in Children from Birth to College (Russell Sage Foundation, 2000), and The Future of Child Protection: How to Break the Cycle of Abuse and Neglect (Harvard University Press, 1998).Her current research includes studies of work-family policies, inequality in early childhood care and education, and the black-white achievement gap. She can be reached at Columbia University School of Social Work, 1255 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027. E-mail: jw205@columbia.edu.
Lisa de Saxe Zerden
Project Director, Boston University Center for Addictions Research and Services
Lisa de Saxe Zerden is a project director at the Boston University Center for Addictions Research and Services and recently completed her dissertation titled "Acculturation and Needle Sharing: A Dual-Site Study of Puerto Rican Injection Drug Users" in the Interdisciplinary Doctoral program in Sociology and Social Work at Boston University. Dr. Zerden received her M.S.W. in 2004 from the UCLA Department of Social Welfare in the School of Public Policy and Social Research (now the School of Public Affairs). Her areas of interest include HIV/AIDS, health risk behaviors and disparities, substance abuse, program evaluation, and cross-cultural prevention and treatment efforts. She is the author of "Caring for home based care workers: Understanding the needs, fears and motivations of frontline care workers in South Africa" published in 2006, and has written several manuscripts focused on Latino substance abuse and HIV/AIDS risk.
David Weil
Associate Professor of Finance & Economics and Everett W. Lord Distinguished Faculty Scholar, Boston University
Co-Director, Transparency Policy Project,Taubman Center, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
David Weil is Professor of Economics and Everett W. Lord Distinguished Faculty Scholar at Boston University School of Management. He is also co-Director of the Transparency Policy Project at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. His research spans regulatory and labor market policy, industrial and labor relations, occupational safety and health, and transparency policy. He is widely published in academic and popular journals and co-authored three books, including the recently released Full Disclosure: The Perils and Promise of Transparency (Cambridge University Press, 2007) and the award-winning Stitch in Time: Lean Retailing and the Transformation of Manufacturing (Oxford University Press, 1999). In addition to his research, he has served as an advisor to the U.S. Department of Labor and other government agencies and to labor unions in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. He also serves as the Chairman of the Dunlop Commission on Agricultural Labor as well a mediator in a variety of labor / management settings in the U.S. and abroad.
Julian Go
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Boston University.
Julian Go is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Boston University. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago (2000). He joined the faculty of Boston University's sociology department in 2004. Previously he was an Academy Scholar at the Academy for International and Area Studies of Harvard University. He is the winner of the 2007 Wisneski Teaching Award for the College of Arts and Sciences and elected member of the Council of the Comparative-Historical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association. Besides various articles, he is the author of American Empire and the Politics of Meaning: Elite Political Cultures in the Philippines and Puerto Rico during US Colonialism (Duke, 2008) and co-editor (with Anne Foster) of The American Colonial State in the Philippines: Global Perspectives (Duke, 2003). He is currently completing "Cycles of Global Power," a book monograph comparing US and British imperial formations, 1688-2003.
Thomas Sequist
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Health Care Policy
Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Thomas D. Sequist, MD MPH is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Assistant Professor of Health Care Policy at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and practices general internal medicine at Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, a multispecialty physician group practice. He received his medical degree in 1999 from Harvard Medical School, completed a residency in internal medicine and primary care at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in 2002, and received his Masters in Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health in 2004. Dr. Sequist maintains an active research agenda in quality improvement and racial disparities. His work in this area involves the use of health information technology, patient and provider education, disease management strategies, and performance reporting to improve patient care, with a focus on care for minority patients. Dr. Sequist is deputy editor for The Journal of General Internal Medicine, and a standing member of the Health Care Quality and Effectiveness study section within the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
