Doctor of Social Work Program Faculty
Anna M. Santiago, Ph.D.
Professor of Social Work and Director of Ph.D. Program
Research Interests: Social capital formation and asset building in low-income families; neighborhood effects on child and youth development; effects of housing, poverty and welfare policy on low-income or minority families; residential segregation in U.S. metropolitan areas; spirituality and social work; and clergy/faith community response to family violence. Full profile
Phone: (313) 577-8806
E-mail: ad4345@wayne.edu
Beverly Black, Ph.D.
Professor, Adjunct
Research Interests: Violence prevention; dating violence; and sexual assault prevention. Full profile
E-mail: aa2733@wayne.edu
Jerrold R. Brandell, Ph.D.
Professor, and Chair of Interpersonal Practice, MSW Program Coordinator
Research Interests: Analysis of process in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy; outcomes in psychoanalytically oriented treatments; comparative psychoanalytic theory; psychoanalysis and culture; and methods of dynamic supervision. Full profile
Phone: (313) 577-4447
E-mail: aa4537@wayne.edu
Leon W. Chestang, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Research Interests: Social work education; multicultural issues in social work; and human service. Full profile
Phone: (313) 577-4400
E-mail: ad4682@wayne.edu
Antonio Gonzalez-Prendes, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: The study of cognitive-behavioral therapies with gender, racial, and ethnic minorities; the conceptualization and treatment of anger problems. Focus specifically in exploring and identifying cognitive processes that contribute to the onset and maintenance of anger problems and developing strategies to address such problems effectively with gender, racial, and ethnic minorities. Full profile
Phone: (313) 577-5252
E-mail: aa3232@wayne.edu
Faith P. Hopp, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Formal and informal care for older adults, end of life care, and chronic disease management, with a particular focus on how these issues are impacted by gender, race, and ethnicity; the use of technology in the provision of health and social services. Full profile
Phone: (313) 577-4423
E-mail: faithhopp@wayne.edu
Royce A. Hutson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: International Social Work (human rights, armed conflict, & trauma); poverty policy and child development; and community organization/development. Full profile
Phone: (313) 577-4444
E-mail: av3604@wayne.edu
Debra Hernandez Jozefowicz-Simbeni, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: School social work practice; education prevention and intervention efforts; adolescence and the transition to adulthood for at-risk; marginalized and special needs populations; homeless adolescents; positive youth identity and mental health development in multiple contexts, multiple methods. Full profile
Phone: (313) 577-2262
E-mail: ao1615@wayne.edu
Poco Kernsmith, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Violence in families and relationships, including child abuse, sexual assault and coercion, dating and domestic violence and stalking. Includes examining gender differences in perpetration, interventions with perpetrators, and possible long-term effects on victimized children, such as eating disorders, self-injury, and perpetuation of violence in adolescence and adulthood. Full profile
Phone: (313) 577-4437
E-mail: ao1717@wayne.edu
Shawna J. Lee, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Social Work
Research Interests: Factors linked to fathers’ physical and psychological child maltreatment and use of corporal punishment; community variables related to risk for maternal child abuse and neglect; intervention to prevent child abuse and neglect; the family and work lives of low-income women. Full profile
Phone: (313) 577-4402
E-mail: shawnal@wayne.edu
Bart W. Miles, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Treatment of children and adolescents; at-risk urban youth and risk factors such as race/ethnicity, substance use, & mental health; homelessness/poverty, and qualitative methods (participatory action research, visual ethnography, discourse analysis, interpretive methods, and computer assisted data analysis). Full profile
Phone: (313) 577-4434
E-mail: ar7663@wayne.edu
Durrenda Nash Onolemhemhen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Research Interests: International social work; social development in Africa; minority aging; and women’s health. Full profile
Phone: (313) 577-0227
E-mail: ad9270@wayne.edu
Melvyn C. Raider, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Social work with families and couples; trauma and PTSD treatment for children, adolescents, and families. Full profile
Phone: (313) 577-4403
E-mail: aa1982@wayne.edu
Joanne Sobeck, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Director of Research, and Co-Chair of Community Practice and Social Action
Research Interests: Risk and protective factors in drug use and abuse, capacity-building with community-based organizations; implementation research; application of evidence based programs in community contexts and processes related to policy and program development. Full profile
Phone: (313) 577-4439
E-mail: ab1350@wayne.edu
Eileen Trzcinski, Ph.D.
Professor
Research Interests: Social and family economic policy; transition to adulthood; international comparative family and social policy; determinants of happiness and life satisfaction; assimilation and immigration policy; the economic and social effects of terrorism; socio-economic determinants of maternal and infant outcomes; and the effects of parental employment on child and adolescent development. Full profile
Phone: (313) 577-4422
E-mail: aa2705@wayne.edu
Cheryl Waites, Ed.D.
Associate Professor of Social Work and Associate Dean
Research Interests: Aging and intergenerational practice, health promotion, social justice, and best practice with African American families and communities, and social work education. Full profile
Phone: (313) 577-4401
Email: ccwaites@wayne.edu
Arlene Weisz, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Youth dating violence; sexual assault prevention; and family violence especially domestic violence. Full profile
Phone: (313) 577-4420
E-mail: aa4495@wayne.edu