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ALZATE, MONICA MARIA, Ph.D.,
Email: mmalzate@ou.edu
Sexual and reproductive health and rights; social policy that affects women and children; delivery of social services in developing countries.

BAKER, DONALD R., Ph.D. Director
Email: drralph@ou.edu
Mental health; substance abuse prevention and treatment; community organization practice; cognitive behavioral methods; grant writing.

BYERS, LISA, Ph.D.,
Email: lbyers@ou.edu
American Indian mental health with an emphasis on depression, discrimination, and trauma.

CASELMENT, TONIA, Ph.D.,
Email: tcaselman@ou.edu
Cross-cultural/international; mental health and child development; school social work; impulse control programs.

CHERRY, ANDREW. L, DSW, ACSW,
Email: alcherry@ou.edu
Mental health issues that impact people who have a serious mental illness; who are addicted; at-risk of suicide; incarcerated women and their children; children’s mental health (mental health development, early detection of onset, bullying, and teenage pregnancy); those at risk for PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder in both adults and children); the provision of mental health services during and after a disaster.

CURIEL, HERMAN, Ph.D.
Email: hcuriel@ou.edu
Aging; cultural considerations in delivery of social services; ethnicity with emphasis on Hispanic populations in the context of social service issues.

DAVIDSON, JEANETTE, Ph.D.
Email: jrdavidson@ou.edu
Black-white interracial marriage; racial identity attitudes; cross-cultural clinical practice; social work education; issues of diversity; aging, health and culturally-competent practice; managed care; legal and ethical issues; child welfare; white privilege and social work practice; white privilege and higher education; academic success in students from under-represented minority groups.

GRAY, KAREN, Ph.D.,
Email: karen.gray@ou.edu
Poverty, single mother families, grassroots community organizing, affordable housing, and predatory lending.

MILLER-CRIBBS, JULIE, Ph.D.,
Email: jmcribbs@ou.edu
Urban and rural poverty; welfare reform; family formation/structure and poverty; domestic violence; development of social and human capital among vulnerable populations; social support networks.

MOXLEY, DAVID, Ph.D.,
Email: david.moxley@ou.edu
Organization and effectiveness of social services for people with disabilities; homelessness; community support of people coping with serious mental illness; vocational development.

NATALE, ANTHONY, Ph.D.
Email: anatale@ou.edu
HIV/AIDS, gay and lesbian communities; community organizing; public health; social policy.

PELLEBON, DWAIN, Ph.D.
Email: dpellebon@ou.edu
Cultural diversity; client perception of social workers.

ROSENTHAL, JAMES, Ph.D., Graduate Program Coordinator
Email: jimar@ou.edu
Child welfare issues; program evaluation; research methodology.

WEDEL, KENNETH, Ph.D., Retired
Email: kwedel@ou.edu
Social policy issues; social program evaluations.

WELLS, STEVEN, Ph.D.,
Email: spwells@ou.edu
Child welfare training; foster parents and the education of foster children; families and disabilities.

WISDOM, ELLEN, Ph.D.,
Email: ewisdom@ou.edu
Maternal and child health; school social work; field education.  

WRIGHT, ROOSEVELT JR., Ph.D., Undergraduate Program Coordinator
Email: rwright@ou.edu
Social gerentology, specifically the utilization of health care and social services by older people but especially older people of color; substance use and abuse by and among people of color with special foci on poly-drug use/abuse and alcohol use/abuse; culture and cultural context, cultural assimilation and acculturation, especially among people of color.

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