School of Social Work

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List of Professors

Name	Years at Michigan	Position
Robert D. Vinter	1954 - 1985	Arthur Dunham Professor of Social Work
Desmond Upton Patton	2012 - 2015	Assistant Professor
Eve Elizabeth Garrow	2010 - 2014	Assistant Professor
Michael Ross Woodford	2006 - 2014	Assistant Professor
Janet Leigh Finn	1999 - 2002	Assistant Professor of Anthropology Assistant Professor of Social Work
Jules Schrager	1962 - 1980	Assistant Professor of Psychiatry Associate Professor of Social Work Director of Social Work, University Hospital
Andrew G. Hunter	1992 - 2001	Assistant Professor of Psychology, Women's Studies Associate Professor of Social Work
Kristin S. Seefeldt	1995 - 2010	Assistant Professor of Public Policy Assistant Professor of Social Work
Betty Blythe	1983 - 1987	Assistant Professor of Social Work
Betty Lou Brown Chappell	1992 - 1996	Assistant Professor of Social Work
George Brown	1966	Assistant Professor of Social Work
David L. Burton	1996 - 2004	Assistant Professor of Social Work
Pauline J. Bushey	1958 - 1963	Assistant Professor of Social Work
Alan N. Connor	1969	Assistant Professor of Social Work
Valire Carr Copeland	1992 - 1996	Assistant Professor of Social Work
Deborah I Gioia Hasick	2001 - 2006	Assistant Professor of Social Work
Gerald Goff	1979	Assistant Professor of Social Work
Sylvia Estelle Goodman	1957 - 1962	Assistant Professor of Social Work
Martha Green	1965 - 1966	Assistant Professor of Social Work
Catalina Herrerias	1984 - 1987	Assistant Professor of Social Work
Mark Clark Holter	1997 - 2006	Assistant Professor of Social Work
Alfreda Iglehart	1979 - 1985	Assistant Professor of Social Work
Sharon Keigher	1985 - 1992	Assistant Professor of Social Work
Stanley Kim	1965 - 1973	Assistant Professor of Social Work
Kris Kissman	1987 - 1994	Assistant Professor of Social Work
Mitchel Lazarus	1965 - 1968	Assistant Professor of Social Work
Dorothy Robinson	1956 - 1978	Assistant Professor of Social Work
Helen J. Rosen	1980	Assistant Professor of Social Work
Deborah R. Schild	2006	Assistant Professor of Social Work
Sheldon Siegel	1979	Assistant Professor of Social Work
Raymond Snowden	1973 - 1976	Assistant Professor of Social Work
Zulema E. Suarez	1987 - 1995	Assistant Professor of Social Work
Martin Sundel	1968 - 1971	Assistant Professor of Social Work
Joseph G. Teresa	1976	Assistant Professor of Social Work
Mary Van Hook	1986 - 1995	Assistant Professor of Social Work
David Neal	1966 - 2004	Assistant Professor of Social Work
Dale Kent Fitch	2001 - 2009	Assistant Professor of Social Work
Marilyn Sinkewicz	2007 - 2016	Assistant Professor of Social Work
Mathieu Despard	2015 - 2017	Assistant Professor of Social Work
Michael E. Woolley	2003 - 2007	Assistant Professor of Social Work, Education
Leslie D. Hollingsworth	1996 - 2016	Associate Professor
Diane Kaplan Vinokur	1979 - 2016	Associate Professor
Sean Joe	2004 - 2014	Associate Professor of Psychiatry Associate Professor of Social Work
Jo Ann Allen	1966 - 1991	Associate Professor of Social Work Professor of Education Dean of the School of Social Work
Joyce O. Beckett	1985	Associate Professor of Social Work
Candyce S. Berger	1991 - 1998	Associate Professor of Social Work Assistant Dean of Hospital Social Work Services
William C. Birdsall	1973 - 2002	Associate Professor of Social Work
Howard V. Brabson	1969 - 1991	Associate Professor of Social Work
Beryl L. Carter	1965 - 1971	Associate Professor of Social Work
Frederick Cox	1964 - 1976	Associate Professor of Social Work
John Erlich	1965 - 1971	Associate Professor of Social Work
Marilyn L. Flynn	1985 - 1991	Associate Professor of Social Work
Madison Foster	1969 - 1984	Associate Professor of Social Work
Martha N. Gizynski	1969 - 1986	Associate Professor of Social Work
Murray Gruber	1972 - 1980	Associate Professor of Social Work
Lenore Kroman	1975 - 1981	Associate Professor of Social Work
Harry Lawrence	1967 - 1977	Associate Professor of Social Work
William C. Lawrence	1971 - 1986	Associate Professor of Social Work
Shirley Lockery	1990 - 2003	Associate Professor of Social Work
Sheldon David Rose	1965 - 1968	Associate Professor of Social Work
Brett Seabury	1975 - 2009	Associate Professor of Social Work
Robert Segal	1969 - 1978	Associate Professor of Social Work
Vivian B. Shapiro	1977 - 1987	Associate Professor of Social Work
John M. Wallace Jr.	1994 - 2003	Associate Professor of Social Work
Helen Weingarten	1981 - 2000	Associate Professor of Social Work
Eliseo Navarro	1972 - 1978	Associate Professor of Social Work
Lorraine Perry	1974 - 1983	Associate Professor of Social Work
Elizabeth Mutschler	1979 - 1997	Associate Professor of Social Work
Paul Wilson	1985 - 1991	Associate Professor of Social Work
Ron A. Astor	1993 - 2002	Associate Professor of Social Work
Elizabeth T. Gershoff	2004 - 2009	Associate Professor of Social Work Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychology Research Associate Professor, Center for Human Growth & Development
Sherrie A. Kossoudji	1985 - 2019	Associate Professor of Social Work
Sandra L. Momper	2008 - 2022	Associate Professor of Social Work
Edith A. Lewis	1985 - 2014	Associate Professor of Women's Studies Associate Professor of Social Work
Douglas D. Davies	1987 - 2005	Clinical Associate Professor of Social Work
Elizabeth Harbeck Voshel	2004 - 2017	Clinical Associate Professor of Social Work Clinical Associate Professor Emerita
Jorge Delva	2002 - 2018	Kristine A. Siefert Collegiate Professor of Social Work Professor of Social Work
William A. Meezan	1999 - 2005	Marion Elizabeth Blue Professor of Children and Families Professor of Social Work
Janice C. Paul	1995 - 2016	Professor of Art & Social Work
Wilbur J. Cohen	1956 - 1983	Professor of Education Professor of Public Welfare Administration Dean of Education
Jesse E. Gordon	1959 - 1993	Professor of Psychology and Social Work
Carol T. Mowbray	1994 - 2005	Professor of Social Work Associate Professor of Psychology
Sydney E. Bernard	1964 - 1991	Professor of Social Work
Harvey J. Bertcher	1964 - 1995	Professor of Social Work
Mary E. Burns	1959 - 1969	Professor of Social Work
Sallie Churchill	1964 - 1967 1970 - 1996	Professor of Social Work
Loraine Cook	1964 - 1987	Professor of Social Work
Jane Costabile	1962 - 1979	Professor of Social Work
Eleanor Goltz Cranefield	1936 - 1968	Professor of Social Work
Tom Croxton	1964 - 2001	Professor of Social Work
Merle L. Dinsmore	1962 - 1983	Professor of Social Work
Richard English	1971 - 1985	Professor of Social Work
Irwin Epstein	1967 - 1979	Professor of Social Work
Sheila Feld	1969 - 2000	Professor of Social Work
Phillip Fellin	1965 - 1999	Professor of Social Work Dean of Social Work
Ralph Carr Fletcher	1941 - 1966	Professor of Social Work
Clarice Freud	1942 - 1974	Professor of Social Work
Rose Campbell Gibson	1979 - 1997	Professor of Social Work
Lois Ann Hartman	1972 - 1986	Professor of Social Work
David P. Himle	1970 - 1993	Professor of Social Work
Srinika Jayaratne	1979 - 2009	Professor of Social Work Director of the Office of Global Activities
Dee Morgan Kilpatrick	1972 - 1983	Professor of Social Work
Armand Lauffer	1968 - 2002	Professor of Social Work Sol Drachler Endowed Chair in Jewish Communal Service
Eugene Litwak	1959 - 1972	Professor of Social Work
Frank F. Maple Jr.	1963 - 2003	Professor of Social Work
Michael S. Reisch	1999 - 2008	Professor of Social Work
Jack Rothman	1962 - 1984	Professor of Social Work
Rosemary C. Sarri	1959 - 1993	Professor of Social Work Senior Research Scientist
Tony Tripodi	1966 - 1987	Professor of Social Work
Wayne Vasey	1967 - 1975	Professor of Social Work
Charles S. Wolfson	1961 - 1991	Professor of Social Work
Matthew O. Howard	2004 - 2007	Professor of Social Work Professor of Psychiatry
Katherine R. Reebel	1975	Professor of Social Work
Patricia Rabinovitz	1952 - 1968	Professor of Social Work
Charles Garvin	1965 - 2002	Professor of Social Work
Mary Newland Taylor	1947 - 1978	Professor of Social Work
Paul H.  Glasser	1959 - 1978	Professor of Social Work
Dorothy C W Schroeder	1950 - 1973	Professor of Social Work
Kristine A. Siefert	1979 - 2013	Professor of Social Work Collegiate Professor of Social Work
David J. Tucker	1990 - 2013	Professor of Social Work Adjunct Professor of Sociology
Louis Burgio	2008 - 2013	Professor of Social Work Harold R. Johnson Professor of Social Work
Kathleen May Lawton Coulborn Faller	1977 - 2014	Professor of Social Work
Daniel G. Saunders	1991 - 2016	Professor of Social Work
Berit Ingersoll-Dayton	1992 - 2018	Professor of Social Work
Edith C. Kieffer	1995 - 2019	Professor of Social Work
Thomas J. Powell	1966 - 2017	Professor of Social Work
Lawrence S. Root	1978 - 2017	Professor of Social Work
John E. Tropman	1965 - 2017	Professor of Social Work
Ruth E. Dunkle	1986 - 2021	Professor of Social Work
Mary C. Ruffolo	1998 - 2021	Professor of Social Work
Beth Glover Reed	1973 - 2023	Professor of Social Work & Associate Professor of Women's & Gender Studies
Paula Allen-Meares	1993 - 2008	Professor of Social Work & Education Dean of Social Work
Laura Lein	2009 - 2019	Professor of Social Work and Anthropology Dean of Social Work
Oscar A. Barbarin III	1979 - 2001	Professor of Social Work and Psychology
Edwin J Thomas	1956 - 1994	Professor of Social Work and Psychology Fedele F Fauri Professor of Social Work
Henry Joseph Meyer	1958 - 1978	Professor of Social Work and Sociology
David Street	1961 - 1976	Professor of Social Work and Sociology
Harold Johnson	1967 - 1995	Professor of Social Work, Health Behavior and Health Education Dean of Social Work Interim VP & Secretary of the University 1994-1995
Barry N. Checkoway	1983 - 2021	Professor of Social Work, Urban and Regional Planning
Yeheskel Hasenfeld	1967 - 1988	Professor of Sociology and Social Work
Arthur E. Wood	1917 - 1952	Professor of Sociology and Social Work Professor of Epidemiology
Mayer N Zald	1977 - 2001	Professor of Sociology, Social Work, Business Administration Charles Horton Colley Distinguished University Professor of Social Science Chair of Sociology 1981-84, 90-92
Frank D. Zinn	1997 - 2010	Research Assistant Professor of Social Work
Susan C. McDonough	1992 - 2009	Research Associate Professor of Social Work Adjunct Associate Professor of Social Work Associate Research Scientist, Center for Human Growth & Development
Karen S. Harlow-Rosentraub	2010 - 2020	Research Associate Professor of Social Work Research Associate Professor Emerita
Mary Lou Davis-Sacks	1991	Research Associate Survey Research Center
Sandra Klein Danziger	1987 - 2016	Research Professor of Public Policy Professor of Social Work
Fedele F. Fauri	1951 - 1975	Vice President of State Relations and Planning Professor of Public Welfare Administration Dean of the School of Social Work

School of Social Work

List of Professors

Robert D. Vinter

Desmond Upton Patton

Eve Elizabeth Garrow

Michael Ross Woodford

Janet Leigh Finn

Jules Schrager

Andrew G. Hunter

Kristin S. Seefeldt

Betty Blythe

Betty Lou Brown Chappell

George Brown

David L. Burton

Pauline J. Bushey

Alan N. Connor

Valire Carr Copeland

Deborah I Gioia Hasick

Gerald Goff

Sylvia Estelle Goodman

Martha Green

Catalina Herrerias

Mark Clark Holter

Alfreda Iglehart

Sharon Keigher

Stanley Kim

Kris Kissman

Mitchel Lazarus

Dorothy Robinson

Helen J. Rosen

Deborah R. Schild

Sheldon Siegel

Raymond Snowden

Zulema E. Suarez

Martin Sundel

Joseph G. Teresa

Mary Van Hook

David Neal

Dale Kent Fitch

Marilyn Sinkewicz

Mathieu Despard

Michael E. Woolley

Leslie D. Hollingsworth

Diane Kaplan Vinokur

Sean Joe

Jo Ann Allen

Joyce O. Beckett

Candyce S. Berger

William C. Birdsall

Howard V. Brabson

Beryl L. Carter

Frederick Cox

John Erlich

Marilyn L. Flynn

Madison Foster

Martha N. Gizynski

Murray Gruber

Lenore Kroman

Harry Lawrence

William C. Lawrence

Shirley Lockery

Sheldon David Rose

Brett Seabury

Robert Segal

Vivian B. Shapiro

John M. Wallace Jr.

Helen Weingarten

Eliseo Navarro

Lorraine Perry

Elizabeth Mutschler

Paul Wilson

Ron A. Astor

Elizabeth T. Gershoff

Sherrie A. Kossoudji

Sandra L. Momper

Edith A. Lewis

Douglas D. Davies

Elizabeth Harbeck Voshel

Jorge Delva

William A. Meezan

Paul H.  Glasser