AT HUNTER
CHAIR Social Welfare Policy
COURSES
MSW: Program: Social Welfare Policy, PhD: Program Social Welfare Policy
PROFESSIONAL
INTERESTS
History US Welfare State,
The Impact of Neoliberalism on the US Welfare State
Contemporary Social Welfare Policy Issues
Low Income Women’s Activism
Class, Race and Gender
Race and Social Welfare Policy
Poverty in the United States
CURRENT RESEARCH
Gendered Obligations: The History of Black an dWhile Low-Income Women Activism in the United States Since 1900
The Social Determinations of Social Problems: A Mapping Project
Low-Income Women’s Access to Education
Impact Undoing Racism Workshop on Social Service Agencies.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
The Dynamics of Social Welfare Policy, NY: Oxford University Press (w/ Joel Blau)
(2nd rev ed) , 2007
Taxes Are A Women’s Issue: Reframing the Debate. New York, NY: The Feminist Press
(w/
Sandra Morgan), 2006
Under Attack, Fighting Back: Women and Welfare in the United States, NY: Monthly Review Press, (2nd rev Ed), 2009
Regulating The Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy From Colonial Times to the Present, Boston: South End Press, (2nd Rev. Ed) 1996
BOOK CHAPTERS
Gender Matters:Women, Caregiving and the Neo-Liberal Assault on the Welfare State. Gavigan and Chunn,(Eds) The Legal Tender of Gender: International Perspectives on Welfare Law, State Policies and the Regulation of Women’s Poverty, Oxford, England: Hart Publishing 2009
Women in A Bind: The Decline of Marriage, Markets and the State, in A. Joseph & C,A Broussard (eds).Family Poverty in Diverse Contexts. Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press, pp.26-47, 2009
Political Ideology and Social Welfare, Encyclopedia of Social Work, National Association of Social Workers, Washington, D.C.. 2008
Has Welfare Reform Worked? No in Controversial Issues in Social Policy, ( 3rd ed). Howard Karger, James Midgely, Peter Kindle & C Brene Brown (eds), Allyn & Bacon/Longman pp.205-216, 2006
Neither Accidental or Simply Meanspirited: The Context for Welfare Reform in Kilty & Segal (eds) In The Promise of Welfare Reform: Rhetoric or Reality? The Haworth Press, pp.23-39, 2006
ARTICLES
“Wall St Takes Welfare It Begrudges Women. “ Affilia: A Journal for Women in Social Work, (May2009),( reprinted from Women’s Enews) p.105-107.
Poverty and Economic Injustice, in Social Work Today (March/April 2007) pp 27-28
Welfare Reform in the United States: Race, Class, & Gender Matters. Critical Social Policy 26(2)( 2006), pp.336-364
The Largely Untold Story of Welfare Reform and the Human Services, Social Work, April. 50(2) (2005) pp.175-186.
Women and the Welfare State, in J. Herrick & Paul Stewart (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Welfare History. Sage Publishers (December, 2005), pp. 447-450.
Saving Capitalism From Itself: Whither The Welfare State? New England Journal of Public Policy (Fall/Winter, 2004) pp. 21-32.
Everyone Is Still On Welfare: The Role of Redistribution in Social Policy.Social Work, 46(4) (October, 2001) pp. 297-308.
Learning From The History of Poor and Working Class Women’s Activism. The
Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science(Special
Issue: Reforming Welfare< Redefining Poverty (577(September), 2001, pp 118-130
RECENT HONORS AND AWARDS
Awarded PSC--CUNY Research Award, 2009
Named Bertha Capen Reynolds Professor, 2007
Inducted into Columbia University School of Social Work Alumni Hall of Fame, April 2007
Faculty of the Year Award, NYS Social Work Educators Association. November 2006
The 2004 Distinguished Recent Contributions to Social Work Education, CSWE, February 2004
Feminist Scholarship Award, presented in honor of Mimi Abramovitz,. February 2004
Commission on the Role and Status of Women, CSWE , February 2004.. ONLINE NEWS MEDIA
Women Need to Know Their New Jobless Benefits. Women’sEnews, March 24 2009
Female Workers Can Jolt Economy; Look at Japan. Women’s Enews, February 9 2009,
Wall Street Takes Welfare It Begrudges Women. Women’sEnews September 24 , 2008
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