B.A. Psychology – Dickinson College
M.S.W. – California State University, Long Beach

Coordinator of Field Education
Office: 438B Waterman
Phone: 656-8409
Email: jbarna@uvm.edu

Scholarly Interests: Social justice, children/families social services, supervision as social work practice, organizational cultures

M.S.W. – University of Washington
Ph.D. – University of Stirling, Scotland

Professor
Office: 439 Waterman
Phone: 656-9661
Email: gburford@uvm.edu

Scholarly Interests: Social development, program planning and evaluation, supervision, social work practice in child and family welfare and youth justice, restorative justice, family group decision making.

M.S.W. - Fordham University
Ph.D. - Case Western Reserve University

Associate Professor
Associate Dean, College of Education and Social Services
Office: 435A Waterman
Phone: 656-2487
Email: susan.comerford@uvm.edu

Scholarly interests: Multi-cultural education, participatory action research, supporting asian refugees, global human rights, women’s issues.

B.A. – University of Wisconsin
M.Ed. – West Chester State University
M.S.W. – Adelphi University
Ph.D. – State University of New York at Albany

Associate Professor, Emerita
Office: 442B Waterman
Phone: 656-1343
Email: marty.dewees@uvm.edu

Scholarly Interests: Mental health; intersections of mental health, domestic and sexual violence, and human rights; interdisciplinary practice

M.S.W. - University of Denver
Ph.D. - University of Denver

Assistant Professor
Office: 437B Waterman
Phone: 656-5576
Email: george.leibowitz@uvm.edu

Scholarly interests: Childhood and adolescent trauma and co-occurring mental health conditions, dissociation, social work practice with sexually abusive juveniles, and international social work.

B.S. – Castleton State College
M.Ed. – University of Vermont
C.A.S. – University of Vermont
Ed.D. – Boston University

Professor - Emerita
Office: 437A Waterman
Phone: 656-8591
Email: phyllis.whitcomb@uvm.edu

Scholarly Interests: Collaboration, leadership, human rights, equity issues, strengths perspective

M.S.W. – University of Pennsylvania
D.S.W. – University of Pennsylvania

Associate Professor
Office: 438A Waterman
Phone: 656-9657
Email: fpatters@uvm.edu

Scholarly Interests: Immigrant women, multi-cultural aging, social work ethics, aging women, social work policy and history, literature of immigration, gender in social work

M.S.W. – George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington
University
C.A.S. in Administration and Planning - University of Vermont

Senior Lecturer and Faculty Field Liaison
Office: 442B Waterman
Phone: 656-8842
Email: Ann.Pugh@uvm.edu
Scholarly interests: Advocacy and social policy; children and family
social services; social change; supervision.

M.S.W. – McGill University, Canada

Senior Lecturer, Undergraduate Program Coordinator
Office: 443 Waterman
Phone: 656-3169
Email: julie.richards@uvm.edu

Scholarly Interests: School social work, emotional and behavioral disabilities, family strengths-based assessments and global citizenship

B.A. – University Without Walls Program, Northeastern Illinois University
M.S.S.W. – University of Louisville, Louisville, KY
Ph.D. – Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Associate Professor
Office: 436A Waterman
Phone: 656-1200
Email: susan.roche@uvm.edu

Scholarly Interests: Keeping human rights and social and economic justice at the center of social work practice, research, and education; special emphases on multicultural feminist and post-structural practices, peace and anti-violence work, global-local connections, social movement and grassroots organizational development, expressive methods, collaborative and co-learning

M.S.W. and Ph.D. – Syracuse University

Associate Professor, Graduate Program Coordinator
Office: 443 Waterman
Phone: 656-1337
Email: brenda.solomon@uvm.edu

Scholarly Interests: Using institutional ethnography and discourse analysis to study social institutions and the production of social difference and exclusion; research is focused on welfare, child welfare, and schools

M.S.W. and Ph.D. – State University of New York at Albany

Assistant Professor
Office: 443 Waterman
Phone: 656-2173
Email: jessica.strolin@uvm.edu

Scholarly Interests: Trans-disciplinary evaluation and intervention research in child welfare, substance abuse and school based services. Organizational change in child welfare settings; school-based health services research; adolescent substance abuse intervention research; cross-section of social work and neuroscience.

B.A. – Syracuse University
M.S.W. – SUNY at Albany
M.A. – University of Vermont
Ph.D. – University of Vermont

Chair/Director
Office: 441 Waterman
Phone: 656-8801
Email: gwidrick@uvm.edu

Scholarly Interests: Community practice, rural social work, cultural competence and native peoples, research and history of social work

B.A. – University of Minnesota
M.S.S.W. – University of Wisconsin
Ph.D. – University of Wisconsin

Professor
Office: 434 Waterman
Phone: 656-8134
Email: stanley.witkin@uvm.edu

Scholarly Interests: Social construction, international social work education, social work inquiry, postmodern expressions of social work