Members
DesiréE Burns, LMSW
Doctoral Candidate
College of Social Work, Florida State University
Research interests: racial identity, implicit bias, migration, community organizing, poverty
desiree.burns@fsu.edu
Matthew Chin, Phd
assistant professor
Department of Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, University of Virginia
Research interests: race, gender, sexuality, art, community organizing, history, decolonization, transnationalism, Jamaica
mc4hz@virginia.edu
Cyleste C. Collins, MA, phd, msw
assistant professor
School of Social Work, Cleveland State University
c.c.collins44@csuohio.edu
john doering-white, msw, phd
assistant professor
College of Social Work, University of South Carolina
Research interests: migration, community organizing, violence and care, materiality, ethnography
doeringj@mailbox.sc.edu
lauren e. gulbas, phd
associate professor
Steve Hicks School of Social Work, The University of Texas at Austin
Research interests: adolescent development, culture and mental health, suicidal behaviors, Latino communities, qualitative family research
laurengulbas@austin.utexas.edu
Bethany Hedden
doctoral student
School of Social Work, Wayne State University
Research interests: white racialization, wellbeing, trauma
ay2819@wayne.edu
john mathias, phd
assistant professor
College of Social Work, Florida State University
Research interests: ethics, persuasion, environmentalism and environmental justice, community organizing, South Asia, Florida
jmathias@fsu.edu
tam perry, phd
associate professor
School of Social Work, Wayne State University
Research interests: aging, aging in place/relocation, built environment, minority aging, health disparities, housing preservation
teperry@wayne.edu
sara l Schwartz, phd, msw
senior lecturer
Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, The University of Southern California
Research interests: HIV/AIDS; Hemophilia; The Holocaust; transgenerational trauma, virtual academic communities; work alienation; storytelling; qualitative inquiry
saraschw@usc.edu
yvonne (Eevie) smith, phd
associate professor
School of Social Work, Syracuse University
Research interests: youth residential treatment; child welfare workforce; human/animal interaction; ethnography
ynsmith@syr.edu
kate wright, ma
doctoral candidate
School of Social Work, Wayne State University
Research interests: developmental disabilities, selfhood, community building, communication
gn8047@wayne.edu
laura sutherland, am
doctoral student
School of Social Work, Wayne State University
Research interests: aging, aging in place, creativity, the arts
gj6722@wayne.edu
allison bloom, phd
assistant professor
Sociology & Anthropology Department, Moravian University
Research interests: gender studies, medical anthropology, U.S. immigration and Latinx studies, applied anthropology, and inequalities in health and social services, with a focus on domestic violence/Intimate Partner Violence, aging, disability
blooma@moravian.edu
maureen dean, msw, mDiv
doctoral candidate
School for Social Work, Smith College
Research interests: religion and spirituality, environment and ecology, food justice, culture, health and wellbeing
mtdean@smith.edu
hannah obertino norwood, MA
DOCTORAL CANDIDATE
Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice, University of Chicago
Research interests: immigration policy and advocacy, the US Census, the state and trust, urban politics, anthropology of the US, ethnographic methods
honorwood@uchicago.edu