School of Social Work

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List of Professors

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

School of Social Work

List of Professors

Arthur E. Wood

Eleanor Goltz Cranefield

Ralph Carr Fletcher

Clarice Freud

Mary Newland Taylor

Dorothy C W Schroeder

Fedele F. Fauri

Patricia Rabinovitz

Robert D. Vinter

Dorothy Robinson

Wilbur J. Cohen

Edwin J Thomas

Sylvia Estelle Goodman

Pauline J. Bushey

Henry Joseph Meyer

Jesse E. Gordon

Mary E. Burns

Eugene Litwak

Rosemary C. Sarri

Paul H. Glasser

David Street

Charles S. Wolfson

Jane Costabile

Merle L. Dinsmore

Jack Rothman

Jules Schrager

Frank F. Maple Jr.

Sydney E. Bernard

Harvey J. Bertcher

Sallie Churchill

Loraine Cook

Frederick Cox

Tom Croxton

Beryl L. Carter

John Erlich

Phillip Fellin

Martha Green

Stanley Kim

Mitchel Lazarus

Sheldon David Rose

Charles Garvin

John E. Tropman

Jo Ann Allen

George Brown

Tony Tripodi

David Neal

Thomas J. Powell

Yeheskel Hasenfeld

Irwin Epstein

Harold Johnson

Harry Lawrence

Wayne Vasey

Armand Lauffer

Martin Sundel

Howard V. Brabson

Alan N. Connor

Sheila Feld

Madison Foster

Martha N. Gizynski

Robert Segal

David P. Himle

Richard English

William C. Lawrence

Murray Gruber

Lois Ann Hartman

Dee Morgan Kilpatrick

Eliseo Navarro

William C. Birdsall

Raymond Snowden

Beth Glover Reed

Lorraine Perry

Lenore Kroman

Brett Seabury

Katherine R. Reebel

Joseph G. Teresa

Mayer N Zald

Vivian B. Shapiro

Kathleen May Lawton Coulborn Faller

Paul H.  Glasser