Faculty
Carolyn McAllister, Ph.D., MSW (Michigan State University)
Director of School of Social Work and Associate Professor
Interests: Social work practice with individuals with disabilities and their support systems, integrating disability content into social work education, transition issues for adolescents with disabilities and their families, and teaching with technology, alternate forms of instruction.
Rachel Allinson, MSW, LCSW (The Ohio State University)
Director of Field Education
Interests: Social work education, supervision of pre-licensed social workers and students, forensic issues, severe and persistent mental illness, discharge planning and community integration, and micro practice.
Armando Barragán, Ph.D., M.S.W. (University of Southern California)
Assistant Professor
Interests: Latino mental health, serious mental illnesses, treatment utilization and help-seeking, ethnic minority mental health disparities, and psychiatric epidemiology
Janet C. Chang, Ph.D. (UCLA)
Professor
Interests: Family caregiving, women's health and mental health issues, divorced women's adjustment and mental health issues, elder abuse in cross-cultural context, child abuse issues among Asian American families, ethnic specific service delivery.
Glenda 'G.G.' Crawley, MSW (Louisiana State University)
Title IV-E faculty
Interests: Child Welfare and family services, aging issues, mental health issues, social work supervision and leadership.
Susan Culbertson, MSW (San Diego State University)
Title IV-E Program Coordinator
Interests: Child abuse and neglect, domestic and intimate partner violence, public child welfare policy and procedure, safety and risk assessment in CWS, case management.
Thomas D. Davis, Ph.D. (University of Washington )
Professor
Interests: Substance abuse treatment, macro social work practice, research methods, and healthcare among Native Americans.
Shyra Harris, MSW, LCSW (CSUSB)
Pathway Distance Education M.S.W. Field Coordinator
Interests: High risk child welfare and juvenile probation, forensic issues, severe and persistent mental illness, discharge planning and community integration, medical social work, and micro practice.
Rigaud Joseph, Ph.D (Florida International University)
Assistant Professor
Interests: Poverty and social welfare policies, economic self-sufficiency among low-income families, evaluation of program effectiveness, children and youth well-being, theory and scale development, empowerment practice, and social advocacy.
Deirdre Lanesskog, Ph.D., M.P.A. (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Assistant Professor
Interests: Human service organizations & administration, human services work with immigrant clients, macro social work practice, immigration & social welfare policy, qualitative human services research
Laurie A. Smith, Ph.D. (UCLA)
Professor
Interests: AIDS prevention and services, foster youth, technology in teaching, service learning.
Teresa Morris, Ph.D. (UC Berkeley)
Professor Emerita
Interests: Research methodology and philosophy of science, community organizing, social welfare policy, social action, immigration and refugees, administration and leadership.
James Simon, Ph.D., LCSW (University of Southern California)
Assistant Professor
Interests: Child protective services interventions and recidivism, Recurrence of maltreatment, Micro social work practice, Matching needs and services after a child abuse investigation, Family Preservation, Client engagement
Herbert Shon , Ph.D., LCSW (UCLA)
Assistant Professor
Interests: Developing strategies that reduce barriers to accessing services among hard-to-reach populations, integrating technology into social work courses, caregiving and Alzheimer's disease.
Michael Edwards, MSW (CSUSB)
Title IV-E Field Faculty
Interests: Child Welfare, Juvenile Probation, Transition Age Youth (TAY), Micro practice.
Nick Watson, MSW (San Diego State University)
Title IV-E Faculty
Interests: Child welfare, high risk youth, health policy and substance abuse.
Melinda Corral, MSW (CSUSB)
Title IV-E Child Welfare Outreach Specialist
Interests: Program development, Non-Profit Management, Child Abuse prevention, Mental Health & Well-being, At-Risk Child Welfare, Community Engagement, and Grant Writing
Administrative Staff
Administrative Assistant, Title IV-E Grant Program Office (UEC)
Administrative Support Coordinator, School of Social Work
Administrative Support Assistant, Field Education Program (UEC)
Administrative Support Assistant-II, MSW Program Office
Administrative Support Assistant, Pathway Program (CEGE)
Administrative Assistant, Title IV-E Grant Program Office (UEC)
Administrative Assistant, BASW & Title IV-E Program Office (UEC)
Adjunct Faculty
- Anderson, Kevin
- Arkadie, Nicole
- Badia, Teri
- Bentley, Rachel
- Bowman, Denise
- Brown, Christine
- Estrada, Rachel
- Eskay, Carrie
- Evans, R. Marlene
- Garcia, Jared
- Harris, Alicia
- Macon-Richard, Ariel
- Manio, Kurt
- Murphy, Norina (Reis)
- Richter, Sally
- Skenderian, Ann
- Smith, Amanda
- Sylvester, Heather
- Turnbull, Kathy
Emeritus Faculty
- Nancy Mary, D.S.W., UCLA (Los Angeles)