Past Workshops

4/22/26

Presenter: Dr. Katherine Gibson, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice at the University of Chicago

Paper Title: Weaving the thera-carceral safety net: Psychotropic drugs, psychiatric expertise, and state authority in the US foster care system 

3/26/26

Presenter: Binhua Chen, Doctoral Candidate, University of Auckland

Discussant: Yun Chen, Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Arlington

2/25/26

Presenter: Vitalis Im, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan—Dearborn

Paper Title: “It’s Ruff in Here”: The Ethical Insistence of Prison-Made Greeting Cards

4/10/25

Presenter: Kathryn R. Berringer, Assistant Professor, University of Kansas School of Social Work

Paper Title: Making LGBTQ+ Practice Knowledge: Between "Cold Hard Facts" & Situated Knowledges

11/22/24

Presenter: Jessica López-Espino, Assistant Professor, UC Santa Barbara

Discussant: Matilda Stubbs, Lecturer, University of Chicago

5/17/24

SASW Job Market Panel Q&A

Featuring: Deborah Padgett, Professor, NYU; Eevie Smith, Associate Professor, Syracuse University; Lauren Gulbas, Associate Professor, UT-Austin

3/8/24

Presenter: Allison Bloom, Assistant Professor, Sociology and Anthropology Department at Moravian University

Chapter Title: 'Queda Como Un Anciano'/'Left Like the Elderly' Violence and Immigration in Later Life

5/15/23

Presenter: Katherine Gibson, Teaching Fellow, University of Chicago

Paper: Bringing Abolition Home: Why Family Abolition Needs to be at the Heart of the Movement to Abolish Family Policing

3/3/23

Presenter: Kathryn Wright, PhD Candidate, Wayne State University

Paper Title: Why is special education such a bad place to be? What is missing in the disproportionality discussion. 

11/4/22

Presenter: Dr. Zhiying Ma, Assistant Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice at the University of Chicago

Paper Title: Intimate Institutions: Governance and Care Under the Mental Health Legal Reform in Contemporary China.

3/22/18

Presenters: 

  • Matthew Spitzmueller, Assistant Professor of Social Work at Syracuse University

  • Ronke Olawale, Doctoral Candidate in Social Work and Anthropology at the University of Michigan

9/27/17

Presenters:

  • Yvonne Smith, Assistant Professor of Social Work at Syracuse University

  • John Doering-White, Doctoral Candidate in Social Work and Anthropology at the University of Michigan

5/23/17

Presenters:

  • Cyleste Collins, Assistant Professor of Social Work, Cleveland State University 

  • Michael Kral, Associate Professor of Social Work, Wayne State University 

  • Sara Schwartsz, Senior Lecturer of Social Work, University of Southern California 

Presenters: 

  • Tam Perry, Assistant Professor of Social Work, Wayne State University

  • Lauren Gulbas, Assistant Professor of Social Work, University of Texas at Austin

3/20/17

10/3/16

Presenters:

  • Elana Buch, Assistant Professor of Social Work, University of Iowa

    • She discussed the process of transforming her joint social work and anthropology dissertation into an ethnography intended for multiple audiences. 

  • Alexandra Crampton, Associate Professor, Marquette University

    • She argued for a change within the evidence based practice construct as a way to work towards exposing the biases of evidence based practice as applied in social work research. This argument is folded within a call to decolonize social work. Her paper can be found here .

5/5/16

Presenters:

  • Gregory “Duff” Morton, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Bard College 

  • Matthew Chin, Assistant Professor, Fordham University