Directory

Jennifer Meade

Director of School Social Work

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Jenny Meade, a female-presenting person, smiles towards the camera.

jemeade@uchicago.edu

Department
School Social Work Program
Department:
School Social Work Program

Office Location: E1

Areas of Expertise
Education
Family

Darcey Merritt, PhD

Professor

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Darcey Merritt

darceym@uchicago.edu

Office Location: E16

Areas of Expertise
Child neglect and poverty
Child Protective Services: impacted, Black, financially disenfranchised mothers
Child Welfare System
Lived experiences of racially marginalized parents and children: impacted families enduring poverty
Parental decision-making in the context of low socio-economic status
Traumatic impacts related to racialized poverty and systems oversight
Prevention

Reuben Jonathan Miller, PhD

Associate Professor in the Crown Family School and Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation; Associated Faculty, Sociology

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reuben@uchicago.edu

Office Location: E8

Areas of Expertise
Criminal Justice Policy
Poverty and Income
Race, Ethnicity, and Culture
Welfare

Gina E Miranda Samuels, PhD

Professor; Faculty Director, Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture

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Gina E. Miranda Samuels, a female-presenting person, smiles towards the camera in a library.

gmsamuels@uchicago.edu

Office Location: E-4

Areas of Expertise
African Americans
Child Welfare and Child Protection
Cultural Attunement
Family
Foster Care
Homelessness
Race, Ethnicity, and Culture
Social Work

Lisa Lynelle Moore, PhD, LICSW

Senior Lecturer and Director of the Master's Program in Social Work, Social Policy, and Social Service Administration

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Lisa Moore, a female-presenting person, smiles towards the camera.

moorel@uchicago.edu

Department
Curriculum
Department:
Curriculum

Office Location: W11

Areas of Expertise
Accreditation
African Americans
Family
Housing
LGBTQIA+
Race, Ethnicity, and Culture
Social Work

Jennifer E Mosley, PhD

Professor; Editor, Social Service Review; Faculty Director, UChicago Obama Foundation Scholars Program

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mosley@uchicago.edu

Office Location: E14

Areas of Expertise
Community
Government and Policy
Homelessness
International
Non-Profit Organizations
Philanthropy
Poverty and Income
Social Work
Urban
Welfare

Carly Mychl Murray

Doctoral Student

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murraycm@uchicago.edu

Areas of Expertise
Anthropology of social work
Anti-Oppression Education and Activism
Child Welfare System
Criminal Legal Policy
Decarceration
Gender, Race, and Class
Harm Reduction
Intersectionality
Policy Implementation
Poverty and Income
Race, Gender and Class
Social Welfare Policy
Transformative Justice
Violence and Trauma
Welfare
Women with incarceration experiences

Jenny Nagaoka

Deputy Director

jkn@uchicago.edu

Department
UChicago Consortium on School Research
Department:
UChicago Consortium on School Research