Feb. 12, 2019
Chris Woodley • cwoodley@mailbox.sc.edu
The Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare (AASWSW), currently headquartered at the College of Social Work of the University of South Carolina, features more than 100 top scholars in the field. Thanks to their research, insight and professional experience, the Academy is home to advocacy, policy statements and scholarly publications that affect important societal issues.
The Academy is an honorific organization of scholars, researchers and practitioners dedicated to achieving excellence in the field of social work and social welfare through high impact work that advances social good. Founded in 2009, it sits among other professional academies such as the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Nursing. Potential Academy Fellows must undergo a rigorous process. The Nominations and Elections Committee put forth a call for nominations, vet those nominees and prepare a slate of nominees for approval by the Board of Directors. Nominees approved by a majority of AASWSW Fellows in a general election are invited to join the organization.
Each year, new Fellows are inducted during the annual scientific meeting of the Society for Social Work and Research. Twenty-one individuals were inducted on Jan. 18, 2019 in a two-hour public ceremony, followed by a reception.
“The fact that the induction ceremony was standing room only says a lot about the stature of the organization in the profession,” said Academy President Sarah Gehlert, Dean, University of South Carolina College of Social Work. “We estimated that 220 to 260 SSWR members were in attendance, a big increase from the 70 who attended a few years ago.”
Gehlert added that the large crowd speaks to the excitement created by the new initiatives resulting from the Academy’s 2017 strategic planning effort. The first Academy initiative was the Grand Challenges in Social Work, which was launched in 2016. Other initiatives have ensued.
“These initiatives include a one-on-one mentoring program in which distinguished Academy Fellows working with junior faculty to develop manuscripts for publication, funding applications and rapid response to pressing policy issues,” said Gehlert. “With regard to the latter, the Academy was a signatory on a recent Amicus brief to halt immigrant child separation that remains active in the federal courts.”
The new Fellows of the Class of 2019 were inducted at the ceremony after Luis Zayas, Ph.D., Dean, Steve Hicks School of Social Work, University of Texas at Austin, who is an Academy Board member and President-Elect of the Society for Social Work and Research, presented, "Ending Immigration Detention and Family Separation: The Role of Research and the AASWSW in Advocacy." In his address, Dean Zayas emphasized the important role of scientific input in local and federal hearings involving family separation and described his own participation in hearings.
According to Gehlert, this year’s inductees form an especially impressive cohort. Eric Garland, Ph.D., MSW, of the University of Utah College of Social Work was recently named to the 16-member expert panel to guide the $1.1 million National Institutes of Health Helping to End Addiction Long-term initiative to end the opioid crisis. He was named to the panel by NIH Director Francis Collins.
In addition, Fred Ssewamala, Ph.D., of the Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis has developed and tested economic empowerment and social protection interventions aimed at improving life chances and long-term developmental impacts for children and adolescent youth impacted by poverty and HIV/AIDS in low-resource communities. He currently has four NIH-funded longitudinal randomized studies across sub-Saharan Africa. Marlene Wong, Ph.D., MSW, is the former director of mental health, crisis teams and suicide prevention programs at the Los Angeles Unified School District. She is now the Senior Vice Dean, the Stein/Goldberg Sachs Professor of Mental Health, Director of Field Education and Executive Director of the Telehealth Clinic at the Susan Dworak Peck School of Social Work at the University of Southern California.
The Class of 2019 Fellows include Professor Sue Levkoff, who is the second Academy Fellow from the University of South Carolina College of Social Work. Her fellow inductees are:
| Name | School |
|---|---|
| Rami Benbenishty | Bar-Ilan University |
| John Clapp | University of Southern California |
| Frances Brett Drake | Washington University in St. Louis |
| Eric Garland | University of Utah |
| Michal Grinstein-Weiss | Washington University in St. Louis |
| Neil Guterman | New York University |
| Kevin P. Haggerty | University of Washington |
| Sydney L. Hans | University of Chicago |
| David R. Hodge | Arizona State University |
| Sue Levkoff | University of South Carolina |
| Rebecca J. Macy | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| Sandra M. Magana | University of Texas at Austin |
| Katherine Magnuson | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| N. Andrew Peterson | Rutgers University |
| Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes | Boston College |
| Audrey M. Shillington | Colorado State University |
| Fred Ssewamala | Washington University in St. Louis |
| Elizabeth M. Tracy | Case Western Reserve University |
| Lynn Videka | University of Michigan |
| John Wallace | University of Pittsburgh |
| Marleen Wong | University of Southern California |
The complete list of AASWSW Fellows:
| Name | School | Year Inducted |
|---|---|---|
| Mimi Abramovitz | Hunter College | 2015 |
| Paula Allen-Meares | University of Illinois at Chicago | 2009 |
| Maryann Amodeo | Boston University | 2015 |
| Ron Avi Astor | University of Southern California | 2017 |
| Wendy Auslander | Washington University in St. Louis | 2014 |
| Michael J. Austin | University of California, Berkeley | 2015 |
| Anita P. Barbee | University of Louisville | 2016 |
| Richard P. Barth | University of Maryland | 2009 |
| Lawrence M. Berger | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 2015 |
| Barbara J. Berkman | Columbia University | 2010 |
| Jill Duerr Berrick | University of California, Berkeley | 2014 |
| David Biegel | Case Western Reserve University | 2013 |
| Gary Bowen | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 2016 |
| John Brekke | University of Southern California | 2011 |
| Denise Burnette | Virginia Commonwealth University | 2013 |
| Maria Cancian | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 2016 |
| Richard F. Catalano | University of Washington | 2012 |
| Linda Chatters | University of Michigan | 2017 |
| Iris Chi | University of Southern California | 2013 |
| Namkee Choi | University of Texas at Austin | 2013 |
| Ram Cnaan | University of Pennsylvania | 2017 |
| Claudia J. Coulton | Case Western Reserve University | 2009 |
| Mark Courtney | University of Chicago | 2012 |
| Dennis Culhane | University of Pennsylvania | 2016 |
| King Davis | University of Texas at Austin | 2010 |
| Larry E. Davis | University of Pittsburgh | 2013 |
| Jorge Delva | Boston University | 2017 |
| Diane Depanfilis | Hunter College | 2014 |
| Diana N. DiNitto | University of Texas at Austin | 2012 |
| Jeffrey Draine | Temple University | 2013 |
| Ruth Edna Dunkle | University of Michigan | 2012 |
| Shaun Eack | University of Pittsburgh | 2016 |
| Jeffrey L. Edleson | University of California, Berkeley | 2011 |
| Nabila El-Bassel | Columbia University | 2011 |
| Kathleen Ell | University of Southern California | 2010 |
| Richard Estes | University of Pennsylvania | 2013 |
| Ronald Feldman | Columbia University | 2011 |
| Marilyn Flynn | University of Southern California | 2017; Honorary |
| Rowena Fong | University of Texas at Austin | 2013 |
| Cynthia Franklin | University of Texas at Austin | 2016 |
| Mark Fraser | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 2010 |
| Irwin Garfinkel | Columbia University | 2010 |
| Sarah Gehlert | University of South Carolina | 2010 |
| Neil Gilbert | University of California, Berkeley | 2013 |
| Grover Gilmore | Case Western Reserve University | 2017; Honorary |
| Charles Glisson | Children’s Mental Health Service Research Center | 2012 |
| Robyn Golden | Rush University | 2016 |
| Karen Fredriksen Goldsen | University of Washington | 2017 |
| Deborah Gorman-Smith | University of Chicago |
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| Jan Steven Greenberg | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 2014 |
| Vincent Guilamo-Ramos | New York University | 2015 |
| Shenyang Guo | Washington University in St. Louis | 2014 |
| Lorraine Gutierrez | University of Michigan | 2016 |
| Jesse Harris | University of Maryland | 2010 |
| Yeheskel Hasenfeld | University of California, Los Angeles | 2013 |
| J. David Hawkins | University of Washington | 2010 |
| Daniel Herman | Hunter College | 2012 |
| Nancy R. Hooyman | University of Washington | 2011 |
| Amy Horowitz | Fordham University | 2014 |
| Susan L. Hughes | University of Illinois at Chicago | 2014 |
| James Jaccard | New York University | 2016 |
| Jeff Jenson | University of Denver | 2011 |
| Sean Joe | Washington University in St. Louis | 2017 |
| Melissa Johnson-Reid | Washington University in St. Louis | 2017 |
| Sheila Kamerman | Columbia University | 2010 |
| Rosalie A. Kane | University of Minnesota | 2012 |
| Susan Kemp | University of Washington | 2016 |
| Shanti Khinduka | Washington University in St. Louis | 2010 |
| Stuart Kirk | University of California, Los Angeles | 2010 |
| John Landsverk | University of Southern California | 2013 |
| Craig LeCroy | Arizona State University | 2017 |
| Taryn Lindhorst | University of Washington | 2015 |
| James Lubben | Boston College | 2011 |
| Lena Lundgren | University of Denver | 2016 |
| Kevin Mahoney | Boston College | 2012 |
| Marsha R. Mailick | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 2010 |
| Gerald Mallon | Hunter College | 2014 |
| Ronald Manderscheid | National Association of County Behavioral Health and Developmental Disability Directors | 2012 |
| Jeanne Marsh | University of Chicago | 2010 |
| Flavio F. Marsiglia | Southwest Interdisciplinary Research Center | 2012 |
| Tom McDonald | University of Kansas | 2013 |
| Mary McKern McKay | Washington University in St. Louis | 2012 |
| Curtis McMillen | University of Chicago | 2013 |
| Ruth McRoy | Boston College | 2010 |
| Daniel R. Meyer | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 2012 |
| James Midgley | University of California, Berkeley | 2010 |
| Michàlle Mor Barak | University of Southern California | 2017 |
| Nancy Morrow-Howell | Washington University in St. Louis | 2012 |
| Edward J. Mullen | Columbia University | 2011 |
| Paula S. Nurius | University of Washington | 2015 |
| John G. Orme | University of Tennessee | 2015 |
| Deborah Padgett | New York University | 2011 |
| Yolanda Padilla | University of Texas at Austin | 2013 |
| Lawrence Albert Palinkas | University of Southern California | 2015 |
| Rino J. Patti | University of Southern California | 2010 |
| Peter J. Pecora | University of Washington | 2009 |
| Harold Pollack | University of Chicago | 2015 |
| Enola K. Proctor | Washington University in St. Louis | 2009 |
| Mark Rank | Washington University in St. Louis | 2012 |
| Michael Reisch | University of Maryland | 2016 |
| Stephanie Robert | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 2015 |
| Allen Rubin | University of Houston | 2010 |
| Rosemary C. Sarri | University of Michigan | 2010 |
| Andrew Scharlach | University of California, Berkeley | 2013 |
| Robert F. Schilling | University of California, Los Angeles | 2011 |
| Steven Segal | University of California, Berkeley | 2010 |
| Michael Sherraden | Washington University in St. Louis | 2010 |
| Mark Singer | Case Western Reserve University | 2014 |
| Phyllis Solomon | University of Pennsylvania | 2010 |
| Michael S. Spencer | University of Washington | 2015 |
| Gail Steketee | Boston University | 2012 |
| David Takeo Takeuchi | Boston College | 2013 |
| Robert Taylor | University of Michigan | 2017 |
| Mark Testa | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 2017 |
| Bruce A. Thyer | Florida State University | 2015 |
| Richard Tolman | University of Michigan | 2017 |
| Ronald Toseland | State University of New York at Albany | 2010 |
| John E. Tropman | University of Michigan | 2014 |
| Edwina Uehara | University of Washington | 2017 |
| Michael Vaughn | St. Louis University | 2016 |
| Mary Velasquez | University of Texas at Austin | 2016 |
| Karina Walters | University of Washington | 2014 |
| Barbara W. White | University of Texas at Austin | 2009 |
| James Herbert Williams | Arizona State University | 2016 |
| Fred Wulczyn | University of Chicago | 2014 |
| Luis Zayas | University of Texas at Austin | 2012 |
| Sheryl Zimmerman | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 2012 |
Established in 2010, the Academy now includes more than 150 Fellows from over 38 universities. The eight-member Board of Directors consists of deans from the schools of social work at Washington University in St. Louis, Boston University, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of South Carolina and a former dean of the University of Washington, and four past presidents and the President-Elect of the Society for Social Work and Research.