The Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR) Fellows are members who have served with distinction to advance the mission of the Society — to advance, disseminate, and translate research that addresses issues of social work practice and policy and promotes a diverse, equitable and just society.
The SSWR Fellowship has been established by the Society to honor and to recognize current SSWR members for their individual accomplishments, leadership and contribution to SSWR as a scientific society. It is anticipated that SSWR Fellows will serve as role models and mentors for individuals pursuing careers in social work research and will continue to actively advance the mission of SSWR.
Eligibility for the SSWR Fellow designation is determined by a point system established by the SSWR Board under which individual members are awarded points for participation in the activities listed below. Eligible years are determined based upon available, verifiable records (1994-present).
Point(s) are awarded for each activity in a given year as follows.
| Fellows Criteria | Point Value Per Year |
| I. LEADERSHIP | |
| Board officers | 5 |
| Board member-at-large | 4 |
| Committee/task force chair (non- Board member) | 3 |
| Cluster chair | 3 |
| JSSWR editor-in-chief | 5 |
| JSSWR associate editor | 4 |
| Deputy student volunteer | 2 |
| II. SCHOLARSHIP | |
| Abstract submission[1] | 1 |
| JSSWR submission | 1 |
| JSSWR article publication | 3 |
| Doctoral student policy briefs | 2 |
| III. SERVICE | |
| Committee member | 2 |
| Abstract reviewer | 2 |
| JSSWR reviewer | 2 |
| Student volunteer | 1 |
| Volunteer Session moderator | 1 |
| IV. PRESENTATION | |
| Abstract presenter[2] | 1 |
| Invited speaker | 2 |
| Preconference Training speaker | 2 |
| SIG convener | 1 |
| V. RECOGNITION | |
| Award winner | 5 |
| VI. MENTORING | |
| Coffee with Scholars Mentor | 1 |
| Meet the Scientist – Senior scientist | 1 |
[1] 1 point for each abstract submission by the presenting author of oral papers and posters; symposia organizer/chair, symposia discussant, symposia presenting author of a paper within symposia, all roundtable speakers, and all workshop speakers.
[2] 1 point for each presenter whose abstract was accepted which includes the presenting author of oral papers and posters; symposia organizer/chair, symposia discussant, presenting author of a paper within symposia, all roundtable speakers, and all workshop speakers.
SSWR staff will update records annually and provide the data to the SSWR Fellows Awards Committee which is comprised of the President, the Award Committee co-chairs, and the Membership Task Force chair, who confirm that eligibility requirements have been met. The number of inductees each year is approximately three percent of the total number of SSWR members in that year and will not exceed 10% of the total SSWR membership in any given year. The list of SSWR Fellows for a given year is approved by the SSWR Board. SSWR Fellows maintain their status as long as they are current members of the Society.
Each year’s class of SSWR Fellows will be inducted at the SSWR Annual Conference during the Annual Awards Presentation. SSWR Fellows will be recognized in the conference program book, on the SSWR website, and with a conference name badge ribbon.
SSWR Fellows and their Induction Year (2014-2024)
Laura Abrams, University of California Los Angeles (2016)
Haksoon Ahn, University of Maryland (2019)
Becci Akin, University of Kansas (2020)
Paula Allen-Meares, University of Illinois at Chicago (2020)
Inna Altschul, University of Denver (2014)
Dawn Anderson-Butcher, The Ohio State University (2017)
David Androff, Arizona State University (2023)
Beth Angell, Rutgers University (2018)
Elizabeth Anthony, Arizona State University (2016)
Elizabeth Aparicio, University of Maryland College Park (2021)
Ron Astor, University of Southern California (2019)
Charles Auerbach, Yeshiva University (2016)
Astraea Augsberger, Boston University (2024)
Wendy Auslander, Washington University at St. Louis (2016)
Cecilia Ayón, University of California Riverside (2024)
Judith Baer, Rutgers University (2016)
Anita Barbee, University of Louisville (2024)
Anamika Barman-Adhikari, University of Denver (2022)
Richard Barth, University of Maryland (2014)
David Becerra, Arizona State University (2016)
Audrey Begun, The Ohio State University (2016)
Jennifer Bellamy, The University of Chicago (2014)
Melissa Bellin, University of Maryland (2017)
Rami Benbenishty, Bar Ilan University (2017)
Kimberly Bender, University of Denver (2014)
Larry Bennett, Indiana University (2017)
Kia Bentley, Virginia Commonwealth University (2017)
Jodi Berger Cardoso, University of Houston (2021)
Jill Berrick, University of California Berkeley (2021)
Stephanie Berzin, Boston College (2016)
Rupaleem Bhuyan, University of Toronto (2021)
David Biegel, Case Western Reserve University (2016)
Julie Birkenmaier, Saint Louis University (2019)
Beverly Black, The University of Texas at Arlington (2019)
Amy Blank Wilson, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2024)
Sarah Bledsoe, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2017)
Jaime Booth, University of Pittsburgh (2024)
Elisa Borah, The University of Texas at Austin (2023)
Elizabeth Bowen, University at Buffalo (2022)
Gary Bowen, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2014)
Natasha Bowen, The University of North Carolina (2015)
John Brekke, University of Southern California (2015)
David Brennan, University of Toronto (2017)
John Bricout, The University of Texas at Arlington (2017)
Brian Bride, Georgia State University (2017)
Charlotte Bright, University of Maryland (2017)
Daniel Brisson, University of Denver (2016)
Suzanne Brown, Wayne State University (2019)
Teri Browne, University of South Carolina (2017)
Alicia Bunger, The Ohio State University (2017)
Denise Burnette, Virginia Commonwealth University (2023)
Leopoldo Cabassa, Columbia University (2015)
Tamara Cadet, University of Pennsylvania (2024)
Kelli Canada, University of Missouri-Columbia (2024)
Julie Cederbaum, University of Southern California (2017)
Amy Chanmugam, The University of Texas at San Antonio (2017)
Mimi Chapman, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2017)
Pajarita Charles, The University of Chicago (2016)
Ding-Geng Chen, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2020)
Hyunkag Cho, Michigan State University (2018)
Namkee Choi, The University of Texas at Austin (2017)
Sam Choi, Alabama A&M University (2018)
Julian Chow, University of California Berkeley (2016)
M. Candace Christensen, The University of Texas at San Antonio (2023)
Mary Collins, Boston University (2021)
Claudia Coulton, Case Western Reserve University (2017)
Mark Courtney, The University of Chicago (2014)
Shelley Craig, University of Toronto (2015)
Thomas Crea, Boston College (2017)
Renee Cunningham-Williams, Washington University at St. Louis (2020)
Angelique Day, University of Washington (2021)
Jorge Delva, University of Michigan (2015)
Diane DePanfilis, University of Maryland Baltimore (2014)
Mathieu Despard, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (2022)
Alan Dettlaff, University of Illinois at Chicago (2015)
Jordan DeVylder, Fordham University (2024)
Otima Doyle, University of Illinois at Chicago (2024)
Jeffrey Draine, Temple University (2017)
James Drisko, Smith College (2014)
Catherine Dulmus, University at Buffalo (2016)
Ruth E. Dunkle, University of Michigan (2020)
Shaun Eack, University of Pittsburgh (2016)
Tonya Edmond, Washington University at St. Louis (2016)
Alberta Ellett, University of Georgia (2014)
Guy Enosh, University of Haifa (2019)
Matthew Epperson, The University of Chicago (2017)
Lin Fang, University of Toronto (2016)
Antoinette Farmer, Rutgers University (2016)
Anna Faul, University of Louisville (2016)
Monica Faulkner, The University of Texas at Austin (2018)
Lisa Fedina, University of Michigan (2023)
Kristin Ferguson, Arizona State University (2023)
Colleen Fisher, University of Minnesota (2016)
Jerry Floersch, Rutgers University (2019)
Rowena Fong, The University of Texas at Austin (2014)
Anne Fortune, University at Albany (2016)
Kirk A. Foster, University of South Carolina (2019)
Cynthia Franklin, The University of Texas at Austin (2018)
Mark Fraser, The University of North Carolina (2014)
Stacey Freedenthal, University of Denver (2014)
Bridget Freisthler, The Ohio State University (2018)
Abbie Frost, Simmons College (2018)
Rachel Fusco, University of Pittsburgh (2018)
Eric Garland, University of Utah (2017)
Robin Gearing, University of Houston (2017)
Sarah Gehlert, Washington University at St. Louis (2014)
Zvi Gellis, University of Pennsylvania (2014)
Louisa Gilbert, Columbia University (2016)
Jane Gilgun, University of Minnesota Twin Cities (2017)
Jeremy Goldbach, University of Southern California (2020)
Sara Goodkind, University of Pittsburgh (2017)
Aaron Gottlieb, The University of Chicago (2024)
Laurie Graham, University of Maryland (2024)
Jan Greenberg, University of Wisconsin – Madison (2016)
Catherine Greeno, University of Pittsburgh (2017)
Johanna Greeson, University of Pennsylvania (2022)
Claudette Grinnell-Davis, University of Oklahoma (2023)
Michal Grinstein-Weiss, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2014)
Andrew Grogan-Kaylor, University of Michigan (2015)
Erick Guerrero, University of Southern California (2014)
Shenyang Guo, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2014)
Hyeouk Hahm, Boston University (2015)
James Hall, Indiana University (2014)
Meekyung Han, San Jose State University (2018)
Sydney Hans, The University of Chicago (2015)
Julia Hastings, University of Albany (2017)
Judith Havlicek, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2023)
J. David Hawkins, University of Washington (2017)
Mary Lehman Held, University of Tennessee (2024)
Julia Henly, The University of Chicago (2018)
Benjamin Henwood, University of Southern California (2017)
Daniel Herman, Hunter College (2016)
Todd Herrenkohl, University of Michigan (2019)
David Hodge, Arizona State University (2015)
Megan Holmes, Case Western Reserve University (2024)
Karen Hopkins, University of Maryland (2016)
Matthew Howard, The University of North Carolina (2014)
Jin Huang, Saint Louis University (2017)
Altaf Husain, Howard University (2020)
Cheryl Hyde, Temple University (2021)
Aidyn Iachini, University of South Carolina (2020)
Roberta Iversen, University of Pennsylvania (2014)
Sigrid James, Loma Linda University (2016)
Todd Jensen, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2023)
Jeffrey Jenson, University of Denver (2014)
Sean Joe, University of Michigan (2014)
Melissa Jonson-Reid, Washington University at St. Louis (2022)
Shanna Kattari, University of Michigan (2022)
Mansoor Kazi, University at Albany (2014)
Susan Kemp, University of Washington (2016)
Angie Kennedy, Michigan State University (2022)
Michael Killian, Florida State University (2024)
Youngmi Kim, Virginia Commonwealth University (2017)
Patricia Kohl, Washington University at St. Louis (2015)
Karen Kolivoski, Howard University (2021)
David Kondrat, Indiana University (2017)
Wynne Korr, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2020)
Judy Krysik, Arizona State University (2017)
Sheryl Kubiak, Michigan State University (2018)
Stephen Kulis, Arizona State University (2015)
Shanti Kulkarni, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte (2018)
Jeffrey Lacasse, Florida State University (2015)
Susan Lambert, The University of Chicago (2014)
Paul Lanier, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2019)
Bethany Lee, University of Maryland (2021)
Hee Lee, The University of Alabama (2019)
Shawna Lee, University of Michigan (2017)
Sungkyu Lee, Soongsil University (2019)
Yookyong Lee, The University of Alabama at Birmingham (2016)
Carol Lewis, The University of Texas at Austin (2023)
Elizabeth Lightfoot, University of Minnesota (2016)
Taryn Lindhorst, University of Washington (2015)
Michael Lindsey, New York University (2018)
Julia Littell, Bryn Mawr College (2017)
Carmen Logie, University of Toronto (2017)
James Lubben, University of California (2022)
Ellen Lukens, Columbia University (2017)
Rebecca Macy, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2015)
Arati Maleku, The Ohio State University (2023)
Jennifer Manuel, University of Connecticut (2024)
Jeanne Marsh, The University of Chicago (2014)
Flavio Marsiglia, Arizona State University (2014)
James Martin, New York University (2014)
Tina Maschi, Fordham University (2014)
Holly Matto, George Mason University (2017)
Brandy Maynard, Saint Louis University (2017)
Bowen McBeath, Portland State University (2016)
Susan McCarter, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte (2019)
Henrika McCoy, University of Illinois at Chicago (2022)
Stephen McMillin, Saint Louis University (2019)
Jane McPherson, University of Georgia (2022)
Ruth McRoy, Boston College (2016)
Ferol Mennen, University of Southern California (2015)
Joseph Merighi, University of Minnesota Twin Cities (2019)
Darcey Merritt, The University of Chicago (2024)
Joshua Mersky, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (2017)
Jill Messing, Arizona State University (2017)
Daniel Meyer, University of Wisconsin – Madison (2019)
Daniel Miller, Boston University (2022)
Faye Mishna, University of Toronto (2014)
Jennifer Mosley, The University of Chicago (2016)
Michelle Munson, New York University (2016)
Jordana Muroff, Boston University (2016)
Sarah Narendorf, University of Houston (2019)
Von Nebbitt, Washington University at St. Louis (2017)
Frances Nedjat-Haiem, New Mexico State University (2017)
Nalini Negi, University of Maryland (2017)
Lenna Nepomnyaschy, Rutgers University (2021)
Christina Newhill, University of Pittsburgh (2016)
Peter Newman, University of Toronto (2014)
Duy Nguyen, Temple University (2017)
Nicole Nicotera, University of Denver (2018)
William Nugent, University of Tennessee (2015)
Paula Nurius, University of Washington (2016)
Mary Ohmer, University of Pittsburgh (2016)
David Okech, University of Georgia (2017)
Julianne Oktay, University of Maryland Baltimore (2014)
John Orme, University of Tennessee (2015)
Philip Osteen, University of Utah (2021)
Deborah Padgett, New York University (2014)
Yolanda Padilla, The University of Texas at Austin (2020)
Lawrence Palinkas, University of Southern California (2017)
Shanta Pandey, Boston College (2019)
Ruth Paris, Boston University (2014)
Susan Parish, Bandeis University (2015)
Nan Park, University of South Florida (2019)
Yoosun Park, Smith College (2021)
Danielle Parrish, Baylor University (2019)
David Pate, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (2023)
Desmond Patton, Columbia University (2019)
Brian Perron, University of Michigan (2015)
Clark Peters, University of Missouri (2016)
Carrie Pettus-Davis, Florida State University (2020)
Rogerio Pinto, Columbia University (2014)
David Pollio, The University of Alabama (2014)
Judy Postmus, Rutgers University (2016)
Sarah Price, Virginia Commonwealth University (2015)
Enola Proctor, Washington University at St. Louis (2016)
Emily Putnam-Hornstein, University of Southern California (2016)
Camille Quinn, The Ohio State University (2022)
Karen Randolph, Florida State University (2016)
Lela Rankin-Williams, Arizona State University (2015)
Rebecca Rebbe, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2024)
Stella Resko, Wayne State University (2019)
Lisa Reyes Mason , University of Denver (2022)
Eric Rice, University of Southern California (2021)
Cynthia Rizo, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2022)
Nancy Rolock, Case Western Reserve University (2023)
Jennifer Romich, University of Washington (2018)
Roderick Rose, The University of North Carolina (2015)
Benjamin Roth, University of South Carolina (2019)
David Rothwell, Oregon State University (2024)
Allen Rubin, University of Houston (2014)
Mary Ruffolo, University of Michigan (2016)
Joseph Ryan, University of Michigan (2016)
Paul Sacco, University of Maryland (2019)
Christopher Salas-Wright, Boston University (2020)
Gina Miranda Samuels, The University of Chicago (2023)
Lisa Schelbe, Florida State University (2017)
Anna Scheyett, University of Georgia (2017)
Trina Shanks, University of Michigan (2021)
Valerie Shapiro, University of California Berkeley (2017)
Michael Sherraden, Washington University in St. Louis – Danforth Campus (2017)
Aron Shlonsky, University of Toronto (2014)
Jeffrey Shook, University of Pittsburgh (2016)
Darcy Siebert, Rutgers University (2015)
Cassandra Simmel, Rutgers University (2024)
Jonathan Singer, Loyola University Chicago (2024)
Brenda Smith, The University of Alabama (2014)
Douglas Smith, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2016)
Richard Smith, University at Albany (2018)
Richard Smith, Wayne State University (2015)
Alexa Smith-Osborne, The University of Texas at Arlington (2016)
Paul Smokowski, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2015)
Joanne Sobeck, Wayne State University (2018)
Phyllis Solomon, University of Pennsylvania (2015)
Cindy Sousa, Bryn Mawr College (2021)
Michael Spencer, University of Michigan (2014)
Renee Spencer, Boston University (2020)
Linda Sprague Martinez, Boston University (2023)
David Springer, The University of Texas at Austin (2018)
Victoria Stanhope, New York University (2017)
Susan Stone, University of California Berkeley (2014)
Heather Storer, University of Louisville (2024)
Fei Sun, Michigan State University (2017)
Samantha Teixeira, Boston College (2021)
Kristie Thomas, Simmons College (2022)
Sanna Thompson, The University of Texas at Austin (2014)
Bruce Thyer, Florida State University (2014)
James Topitzes, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (2023)
Elizabeth Tracy, Case Western Reserve University (2016)
Dorian Traube, Washington University at St. Louis (2024)
Penelope Trickett, University of Southern California (2016)
Edwina Uehara, University of Washington (2020)
George Unick, University of Maryland (2016)
Michael Vaughn, Saint Louis University (2014)
Dexter Voisin, Case Western Reserve University (2023)
Karina Walters, University of Washington (2021)
Quenette Walton, University of Houston (2024)
Keith Warren, The Ohio State University (2018)
Bridget Weller, Duke University (2016)
Allison Werner-Lin, University of Pennsylvania (2017)
James Herbert Williams, University of Denver (2016)
Anne Williford, Colorado State University (2023)
Michael Woodford, Wilfrid Laurier University (2016)
Michael Woolley, University of Maryland (2014)
Nikki Wooten, University of South Carolina (2024)
Qi Wu, Arizona State University (2024)
Shiyou Wu, Arizona State University (2024)
Fred Wulczyn, The University of Chicago (2016)
Yanfeng Xu, University of South Carolina (2024)
Susan Yoon, The Ohio State University (2023)
Mansoo Yu, University of Missouri-Columbia (2017)
Luis Zayas, The University of Texas at Austin (2022)
Brad Zebrack, University of Michigan (2017)
Lisa Zerden, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2022)
Andrew Zinn, University of Kansas (2014)