Faculty Directory
Carolyn Barnes, PhD
Associate Professor
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Areas of Expertise
Administrative Burden
Policy Feedback
Racial Inequality
Social Welfare
Street Level Bureaucracy
Urban Politics
Robin Bartram, PhD
Assistant Professor
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Office Location: E007
Areas of Expertise
Environment
Frontline Policy Implementation
Gender, Race, and Class
Housing
Law and Regulations
Policy Implementation
Sociology
Urban Inequality
Sharon Berlin, PhD
Helen Ross Professor Emerita
Alida M. Bouris, PhD, MSW
Associate Professor; Co-Director, The Chicago Center for HIV Elimination
she/her/hers
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Office Location: E012
Areas of Expertise
Children and Adolescents
Family
Gender
Health
Intervention Programs
Mental Health
Prevention
Race, Ethnicity, and Culture
Social Work
Substance Abuse
Urban
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Office Location: WSSC 253
Areas of Expertise
Government and Policy
International
Non-Profit Organizations
Poverty and Income
Welfare
E. Summerson Carr, PhD
Associate Professor; Joint Appointment with the Department of Anthropology; Associated Faculty, Comparative Human Development
she/her/hers
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Office Location: BE-5A
Areas of Expertise
Animal-human interaction and animal assisted interventions
Anthropology of social work
Behavioral health and psychotherapeutic interventions
Complex institutions
Drugs, addiction, and addiction treatment
Expertise; knowledge production and dissemination
Language and culture
Pragmatism
Professional culture, training and apprenticeship
Scale
Social problems and social policy
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Office Location: E-10
Areas of Expertise
Children and Adolescents
Community
International
Non-Profit Organizations
Poverty and Income
Urban
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Office Location: E-13 / WSSC 209
Areas of Expertise
Asian Americans
Children and Adolescents
Family
Immigration
Mental Health
Race, Ethnicity, and Culture
Substance Abuse
Violence and Trauma
Mark E Courtney, PhD
Samuel Deutsch Professor Emeritus; Principal Investigator, California Youth Transitions to Adulthood Study
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Office Location: E-7
Areas of Expertise
Child Welfare and Child Protection
Children and Adolescents
Family
Foster Care
International
Program Evaluation
Social Welfare Policy
Social Work
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Office Location: BW05C
Areas of Expertise
Community Organizing and Development
Government and Policy
Human Rights
Immigration
International
Non-Profit Organizations
Refugees
Irene Elkin, PhD
Professor Emerita
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Office Location: E020; WSSC 359
Areas of Expertise
Criminal Justice Policy
Decarceration
Intervention Programs
Mass Incarceration
Mental Health
Social Work
Substance Abuse
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Office Location: E009
Areas of Expertise
Criminal Justice Policy
Criminal Legal Change
Decarceration
Gender, Race, and Class
Health
Human Rights
Intervention Programs
Mass Incarceration
Material Hardship
Mental Health
Prevention
Social Work
Violence and Trauma
Women with incarceration experiences
Philip Garboden, PhD
Associate Professor
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Areas of Expertise
Housing
Public Policy
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Office Location: W009
Areas of Expertise
Community
Government and Policy
Immigration
International
Latino-Americans
Race, Ethnicity, and Culture
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Office Location: Edith Abbott Hall
Areas of Expertise
African Americans
Mental Health
Psychology
Race, Ethnicity, and Culture
Social Work
Suicide
Deborah Gorman-Smith, PhD
Dean & Emily Klein Gidwitz Professor; Principal Investigator and Director, Chicago Center for Youth Violence Prevention (CCYVP)
she/her/hers
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Office Location: W6
Areas of Expertise
Child and Youth Development
Neighborhood Social Context
Parenting and Families
Violence Prevention
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Office Location: W13
Areas of Expertise
Criminal Justice Policy
Criminal Legal Change
Criminal Legal Policy
Decarceration
Social Welfare Policy
Social Work
Sociology
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Department
Curriculum
Graduate Program in Health Administration and Policy (GPHAP)
Department:
Curriculum, Graduate Program in Health Administration and Policy (GPHAP)
Office Location: W018; 6011 S. Ingleside, 108
Areas of Expertise
Government and Policy
Health
International
Public Health
Public Policy
Social Welfare Policy
Substance Abuse
Welfare
Sydney Hans, PhD
Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor; Associated Faculty with Department of Psychology and Department of Comparative Human Development
she/her/hers
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Office Location: E6, WSSC 257
Areas of Expertise
Children and Adolescents
Family
Gender
Human Development
Intervention Programs
Mental Health
Prevention
Substance Abuse