School of Social Work
536 George Street
The State University of New Jersey
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Telephone: 732-932-8003, ext. 10
jlonghofer@ssw.rutgers.edu
EDUCATION
2002-2007 Psychoanalyst Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center
2001-2005 Child Training Cleveland Center for Research in Child Development (HPC)
2002 MSW. Smith College School for Social Work
1986 Ph.D. University of Kansas, Department of Anthropology.
1980 M.A. University of Kansas, Anthropology (honors).
1977 B.A. Washburn University, Sociology and Anthropology (honors)
1976 University of Copenhagen, Denmark
CERTIFICATES AND LICENSES HELD
Licensed Independent Social Worker, Ohio (2002-2010).
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, New Jersey (2010- Current).
Adult Psychoanalysis, American Psychoanalytic Association, 2007.
BOOKS
Longhofer, J., Floersch, J., Kubek, P. (2010). On Being and Having a Case Manager: A Relational Approach to Recovery in Mental Health. New York: Columbia University Press.
Floersch, J., Longhofer, J. & Hoy, J. (under contract). Qualitative Methods for Practice: A Pocket Guide. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
JOURNAL ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
Floersch, J. Longhofer, J., Kranke, D., & Townsend, L. (online first). Integrating thematic, grounded theory, and narrative analysis: A case study of adolescent psychotropic treatment. Qualitative Social Work, doi:10.1177/1473325010362330, published online 4, March 2010.
Longhofer, J. & Floersch, J. (in press). Desire and disappointment: Adolescent psychotropic treatment and adherence. Anthropology and Medicine.
Buchbinder, M., J. Longhofer, & K. McCue. (2009). Family routines and rituals when a parent has cancer. Families, Systems, & Health, 27(3), 213-227.
Floersch, J, Townsend, L., Longhofer, J., Munson, M., Kranke, D., Faber, R., Thomas, J., Jenkins, J. & Findling, R.L. (2009). Adolescent experience of psychotropic treatment. Transcultural Psychiatry, 46(1), 157-179.
Floersch, J., Longhofer, J., & Nordquest-Schwallie, M. (2009). Ethnography, (Eds.), Mel Gray & Stephen A. Webb, in Social work: Theories and methods. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, Inc. pp. 152-160.
Longhofer, J., Carpenter, E. & Nordquist, M. (2007). Cultural competence re-examined: Critique and directions for the future. Psychiatric Services, 58(10), 1362-1365.
Longhofer, J. , Carpenter, E. & Nordquist, M. (2007). Using care with culture. In, Diversity Issues in the Diagnosis, Treatment, and Research of Mood Disorders, Editors: Sana Loue, Sajatovic, M. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Longhofer, J. (2006). Analytic identity formation: A ritual process. The Candidate, 1 (1), 115-117.
Buchbinder, M., Longhofer, J., Barrett, T., Lawson, P., & Floersch, J. (2006). Ethnographic approaches to child care research: A review of the literature. Journal of Early Childhood Research, 4 (1), 45-63.
Longhofer, J., Floersch, J. & Jenkins, J. (2004). Medication effect interpretation and the social grid of management." (Ed.) Kia J. Bentley, in Psychiatric medication issues for social workers, counselors, and psychologists. Pp. 71-89. Binghamton, NY: Haworth Social Work Practice Press.
Longhofer, J. & Floersch, J. (2004). The phenomenological practice gap: practice guidelines, evaluation, and clinical judgment. Qualitative Social Work: Research and Practice, 3 (4), 483-506.
Longhofer, J. & Floersch, J. (2004). Psychodynamic case management. In, Psychodynamic Social Work: A Transactional Approach, Jerrold Brandell, Columbia University Press.
Longhofer, J., Floersch, J. & Jenkins, J. (2003). Medication effect interpretation and the social grid of management. Social Work in Mental Health, 1 (4), 71-89.
Longhofer, J., Floersch, J., & Jenkins, J. (2003). The social grid of community medication management. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 73(1), 24-34.
Esterberg, K. & Longhofer, J. (1998). Researching the radical right: Responses to anti- lesbian/gay initiatives.” In, Inside the academy and out: lesbian/gay/queer studies and social action. Eds., Janice L. Ristock and Catherine G. Taylor Toronto: University of Toronto Press, Pp. 183-198.
Floersch, J., Longhofer, J., & Latta, K. (1997). Writing culture into genes: Biological reductionism in a study of manic depression. Culture, Medicine & Psychiatry, 21(2), 137-159.
Floersch, J. & Longhofer J. (1997). The imagined death: Looking to the past for relief from the present. Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, 35(3), 243-260.
Longhofer, J. (1997). Mennonites. In, American Immigrant Cultures: Builders of a nation. Edited by David Levinson. Simon & Schuster, Macmillan.
Latta, K., Longhofer, J., Kusnetsky, L., & Floersch. J. (1995). Domestic education and the politics of positivism: Rethinking the history of home economics. Culture and Agriculture, 51/52, 23-27.
Kusnetsky, L., Longhofer, J., Latta, K., & Floersch, J. (1994). In search of the climax community: The amish and sustainability. Culture and Agriculture, 50, 12-15.
Longhofer, J. (1994). Nursing home utilization: A comparative study of the hutterian brethren, the old order amish, and the mennonites. Journal of Aging Studies, 8(1), 95-120.
Longhofer, J. (1993). Specifying the commons: Mennonites, intensive agriculture, and landlessness in 19th century russia. Ethnohistory, 40 (3), 384-409.
Longhofer, J. (1993). All things in common?: The contingent nature of communalism among the hutterites." Journal of Mennonite Studies, 11, 174-193.
Longhofer, J. (1993). Toward a political economy of inheritance: Community and Household among the Mennonites. Theory and Society, 22(3), 337-362.
Longhofer, J. (1993) Household and community: The mennonites and two counterfactuals, the amish and hutterite. Research in Economic Anthropology, 14, 153-188.
Longhofer, J., & Floersch, J. (1993). African drumming and psychiatric rehabilitation. Psychosocial Rehabilitation Journal, 16(4), 3-10.
Longhofer, J., & Floersch, J. (1992). Old age and inheritance in two social formations: The alexanderwohl mennonites in Russia and the united States. Journal of Aging Studies, 6 (2), 93-112.
Longhofer, J. (1990). Mennonites. In Timothy J. O'Leary and David Levinson, eds., Encyclopedia of World Cultures. Vol I. North America. Boston: G.K. Hall, 216-220.
Longhofer, J. (1980). Dying or living?: The double bind. Culture, Medicine, & Psychiatry, 4(2), 119-136.
UNDER REVIEW AND WORK IN PROCESS
Longhofer, J. Okpych, N., & Floersch, J. (2010) The practice gap in psychotropic treatment for foster youth: Clinical and knowledge arbitrage. Submitted, Social Service Review, June 2010.
Longhofer, J. (2010). Shame across the divides of practice: From Engagement to Termination.
Longhofer, J. (2010). Foster youth and practitioner use of memory.
Longhofer, J., Okpych, N. & Floersch, J. Evidence-based practice and American pragmatism.
CONSULTATION
Jewish Family Services, Akron, Ohio, 2008.
Lucent Technologies, Human Resources, Evaluation, 2003.
Pathways to Adolescent Mental Health Services. Principal Investigator, Dr. Barbara Comer, Case Western Reserve University, School of Medicine, 2003. Consulted with PI on design of methodology.
Ewing and Marian Kaufmann Foundation, Kansas City Missouri, Evaluation Study of Project Choice, 1997.
University of Colorado, Denver, NIDA (National Institute of Drug Abuse, R01) Stephen Koester, PI, Department of Anthropology. HIV Intervention, IDU Population, 1998-1999.
Dallas, Texas, Department of Public Health, HIV Intervention, 1998.
Upward Bound, University of North Texas, 1998-1999.
POST GRADUATE TRAINING
2002-2007 Post-MSW training, Cleveland Center for Psychoanalysis.
2001-2004 MSW and Post-MSW Training, Cleveland Center for Research in Child Development (Hanna Perkins Center)
EDITORSHIPS AND EDITORIAL BOARDS
2006-2008 The International Journal of Psychoanalysis. Editorial Board.
1998-2006 Human Organization, Associate Editor (Society for Applied Anthropology).
2003-2006 Human Organization, Editorial Board.
1995-1997 Culture and Agriculture, Editor (refereed publication, American Anthropological Association Section on Culture and Agriculture).
1997-Current Culture and Agriculture, American Anthropological Association, Editorial Board Member.
EXPERIENCE
2009- Current Associate Professor of Social Work, Rutgers University, The State University of New Jersey.
2006-2009 Associate Professor of Social Work, Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences and Adjunct Associate Professor of Anthropology, Case Western Reserve University.
2007-2008 Chair, Mental Health Concentration, Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, Case Western Reserve University.
2007-Current Faculty, Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center.
2001-2006 Visiting Associate Professor of Social Work, Mandel School of
Applied Social Sciences, Case Western Reserve University.
2006 -Current Clinical Instructor, Psychiatry. Case Western Reserve School of Medicine.
2002-Current Visiting Associate Professor, Executive Doctor of Management Program, Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University.
1997-1999 Associate Professor and Chair. Anthropology, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas.
1995-1997 Associate Professor of Anthropology and Sociology and Chair. Department of Sociology and Administration of Justice, University of Missouri-Kansas City.
1988-1994 Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Sociology. Department of Sociology and Administration of Justice, University of Missouri-Kansas City.
1986-1990 Lecturer, Behavioral Science in Medicine, University of Missouri‑Kansas City, School of Medicine.
1985-1988 Director and Lecturer, Program for Adult College Education. University of Missouri-Kansas City.
BOARD MEMBERSHIPS AND NATIONAL COMMITTEES
2010-current Education Committee, American Psychoanalytic Association and the American Association of Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work.
2010-current American Association of Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work Children and Adolescence Initiative/Committee.
2009-current Public Policy Committee, Board of the Mental Health Association of New Jersey.
2005-2009 Dobama Theatre, Cleveland Ohio.
1998-1999 Chair, Society for Applied Anthropology, Internet Committee.
1996-2000 Executive Board, Culture and Agriculture.
1998-2001 Nominations Committee, Culture and Agriculture, American Anthropological Association, Editorial Board, Culture and Agriculture.
1993-1996 Education Advisory Board, Harmony in a World of Difference, Kansas City, MO.
1995-1997 Missouri Rural Crisis, Board of Directors.
BOOK REVIEWS AND COMMENTARIES
Longhofer, J. (2006). Freud and American Sociology, by Philip Manning. Cleveland Psychoanalytic Newsletter.
Longhofer, J. (2001). Whose public is it, anyway?: Applied social science and the public intellectual. Society for Applied Anthropology Newsletter, Report from the HO Editor.
Longhofer, J. (1999). The internet and applied anthropology. Society for Applied Anthropology Newsletter, Report from the HO Editor.
Longhofer, J. (1997). Holding the line: The telephone in old order mennonite and amish life. By Diane Zimmerman Umble. Journal of Mennonite Studies.The Johns Hopkins University Press.
Longhofer, J. (1995). Amish society (4th edition). By John A. Hostetler. Mennonite Life, 50 (2), 30-31.
Longhofer, J. (1994). Family, church, and market: A mennonite community in the old and new worlds, 1850-1930. By Royden Loewen. Sociological Inquiry, 64, (4) 469-472.
REPORTS
Longhofer, J. (with Thomas Barrett, Barbara Streeter and Marlo Micelli) (2004). I contracted to draft this report, The Hanna Perkins Report on Child Care and Consultation.
Longhofer, J. (1998). University of North Texas, School of Community Service. “On the Feasibility of Applied Anthropology and Graduate Education at UNT.” (approved by the State of Texas Board of Regents)
Longhofer, J. (1997). University of Missouri-Kansas City, College of Arts and Sciences, "Report on the Feasibility and Design of the Graduate Degree in Social Work." (approved by the State of Missouri Board of Regents)
Longhofer, J. (1996). "Hog Wars: Corporate Grab for Control of the Hog Industry." Missouri Rural Crisis Center.
Longhofer, J. (1995.). “A Qualitative Evaluation Concerning Project Choice.” Ewing and Marian Kauffman Foundation.
GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, CONTRACTS, AWARDS
(P=pending, A=awarded, D=declined)
2009 National Academies of Practice, Distinguished Scholar (A)
2003 Excellence in Teaching Award, Doctoral Program. Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University (A)
2002 Pathways to Adolescent Mental Health Services. (Co-investigator). Prinicipal Investigator, Dr. Barbara Comer, Case Western Reserve University, School of Medicine. (D)
1998 Contract, Upward Bound, African Drumming, Listening and Anthropology. University of North Texas, 7400.00, (A)
1996 Salzburg Fellowship, (A)
1995 University of Missouri Research Board. Common Property and Conflict Among the Hutterian Brethren, $11,500, (A)
1994 Wenner-Gren Foundation. Common Property Rights among the Hutterian Brethren: Conflict and Change, $4,450, (A)
1994 University of Missouri-Kansas City Faculty Research Grant. The Amish in the American Imagination, $4,500.00, (A)
1993 University of Missouri-Kansas City, Dean's Outstanding Arts and Sciences Teaching Award, $1,000.00, (A)
1991 University of Missouri-Kansas City, Research Incentive Fund (K-2-10714). $810.00, (A)
1990 Chancellor's Teaching Enhancement Fund, University of Missouri, Kansas City. $1,000, (A)
1989 University of Missouri, Faculty Research Grant, $4,000, (A)
1989 National Endowment to the Humanities Travel to Collections Grant, $750, (A)
1979 Research Assistant, Kansas Commission on the Humanities. This project resulted in the production of a film on the Kansas Pottawatomie Indians. Film title: NESHNABEK. (A)
TEACHING AWARDS AND SPECIAL RECOGNITION
2010 National Academy of Practice, Distinguished Scholar.
2003 Excellence in Teaching Award, Doctoral Program. Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University.
1998 Upward Bound Service Award, University of North Texas.
1998 McNair Service Award, University of North Texas.
1993 University of Missouri-Kansas City, Dean's Outstanding Arts and Sciences Teaching Award.
1991 University of Missouri-Kansas City, University News, Outstanding Arts and Sciences Teacher.
FIELDWORK
2005 Observational Research, Gathering Place, Cleveland, OH.
2004-2005 Ethnographic and observational research in Cleveland, OH, childcare centers.
1995, 1994, 1989 Hutterite colonies in South Dakota, and Manitoba, Canada.
1990 Old Colony Mennonites, Belize.
1990 Kansas and Missouri Mennonite and Old Order Amish communities.
1985-1979 Alexanderwohl Mennonites, Goessel, Kansas.
1980 Holdeman (Church of God in Christ Mennonite), Hesston, Kansas.
1978 Ethnography of a cancer treatment and research hospital, Seattle, Washington.
PAPERS PRESENTED AT CONFERENCES
2010 Seicean, S., Seicean, A., Neuhauser, D. & Longhofer, J. “Open-System Immigrant Health Conceptual Model. American Public Health Association, Annual Meeting. November, Denver, Co.
2010 Hyatt, David & Longhofer, J. “Stakeholder influence strategies: Mobilizing for collaboration.” Divisional Roundtable Paper Session at the 2010 Academy of Management Annual Meeting, August 6-10, in Montreal, Canada.
2010 Townsend, L. Floersch, J. & Longhofer, J. “Coordinating Mental Health and Child Welfare Services: Psychiatric Diagnoses and Use of Psychotropic Medications among Youth in Foster Care.” New Jersey Alliance for Children, Youth and Families: The Child as a Whole: Piecing Together the Partnership Puzzle, May 21. Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.
2008 Longhofer J. “On Being and Having a Case Manager.” Denver Institute for Psychoanalysis and the Denver Psychoanalytic Society.
2006 Longhofer, J. & Buchbinder, M. “Performing Play, Constructing Cancer: Children's Knowledge as Embodied Experience.” Annual Meetings, Society for Medical Anthropology. Vancouver, BC.
2006 Longhofer, J. (Invited) “Working with the Countertransference: Gay Parent, Gay Husband, Gay Analyst.” American Psychoanalytic Association, Annual Meetings, Denver.
2005 Longhofer, J. & Buchbinder, M. “Role Rehearsal and Role Reversal: Children's Play as Anti-Structural Drama.” Annual Meeting, American Anthropology Association. Washington, DC. November.
2005 Buchbinder, M. & Longhofer, J. “Anthropological Perspectives on the Therapeutic Potential of Play.” The Association for the Study of Play, Society for Cultural Research (SCCR) and the Society for Anthropological Sciences (SASci). Santa Fe, New Mexico , February 23-27.
2003 Longhofer, J. & Jenkins, J. “Social Grid of Community Medication Management.” The First National Internet Conference on Social Work & Psychopharmacology, Sponsored by the Ittleson Foundation and Virginia Commonwealth University School of Social work in association with Psy Broadcasting Company, go to http://www.psybc.com., then click on "Seminars" (February 3-24).
2002 Longhofer, J, Floersch, J. & Jenkins, J. “Medication and Case Management in a Community Support Service Program.” Society for Social Work Research, San Diego, California.
1998 Longhofer, J. "Anti-State Extremists and Fundamentalisms of Every Sort." Federal Executive Board Annual Meetings, Kansas City, MO.
1998 Longhofer, J. "Whiteness at the "Extremes" of Environmentalism and Anti- Environmentalism." American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.
1996 Longhofer, J. (with Leonard Zeskind, Jerry Floersch, and Kristin Esterberg) “The Resurgence of Right Wing Extremism in the Rural Midwest”, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Invited Session, San Francisco, CA.
1996 Longhofer, J. "Agrarian Populism." Organized Roundtable for the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Culture and Agriculture Section, San Francisco, CA.
1996 Longhofer, J. “ Militarism, Masculinity, and the American Right.” Invited Presentation, Cornell University, September, Conference on Demilitarization, Remilitarization after the Cold War: Germany, Japan, Peru, and the Untied States. (Invited)
1996 Longhofer, J. & Esterberg, K. “The Resurgence of Right Wing Extremism in the Rural Midwest. 59th Annual Meeting of the Rural Sociological Society, Des Moines, Iowa.
1995 Longhofer, J. “When the Christian Right Comes to Town. Canadian Learned Society Meetings, Montreal, Canada., (Invited)
1994 Longhofer, J. "Researching the Radical Right." Organized Roundtable for the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia.
1994 Longhofer, J. "In and of the World: The Amish and Sustainability". Paper presented at the Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting, St. Louis, MO.
1994 Longhofer, J. "Simple Commodity Production and the Alexanderwohl Mennonites." Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia.
1994 Longhofer, J. "In and of the World: The Amish and Sustainability." Paper presented at the Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting, St. Louis, MO.
1993 Longhofer, J. "Bury Our Dead: A Comparative and Ethnohistorical Study of Mortuary Tradition among the Mennonite, Amish, and Hutterite." Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.
1993 Longhofer, J. & Floersch, J. "The Social Construction of Suicide: Meaning, Discourse, and Resistance." Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.
1993 Longhofer, J. "Articulating Social Totalities of Differing Scope: Mennonites in Local and Social Formations." Paper presented at the Society for Economic Anthropology, Durham, New Hampshire.
1993 Longhofer, J. & Latta, K. "Household, Class, and Gender: Problems in the Study of the Domestic Science Movement." Paper presented at the South Central Women's Studies Association, Fayetteville, Arkansas.
1989 Longhofer, J. "Mennonites, Amish and Hutterites: Community and Household Formation." Paper presented at the 88th annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C.
1989 Longhofer, J. "Mennonites, Amish, Hutterites: A Comparative Study of Community Persistence and Disintegration." An invited paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Association of Physical Anthropology. San Diego, CA. (Invited).
1988 Longhofer, J. Robert Blanc, Stuart, Munro, Marjorie Sirridge, Mary Spratt, Hans Uffelman. "Behavioral Science in Medicine: An Interdisciplinary Case-Oriented Approach." Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Association of American Medical Colleges. Washington, D.C.
1987 Longhofer, J. "Partible Inheritance Practices and the Commercialization of Agriculture: The Alexanderwohl Mennonites." Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association. Chicago, Illinois.
1985 Longhofer, J. "Farm Size and Property Devolution Among Alexanderwohl Mennonites." Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Washington D.C.
1983 Longhofer, J. "Mennonites and the Articulation of Modes Controversy." Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society For Economic Anthropology, Iowa City, Iowa.
1983 Longhofer, J. "The Articulation of Modes: A Mennonite Case Study." Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Allied Social Science Association, San Francisco, CA.
1981 Longhofer, J. "Household Structure and Dependent Elderly Among Kansas Mennonites." An invited paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Los Angeles, CA., (Invited).
1979 Longhofer, J. "Dying or Living?: The Double Bind." Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society For Applied Anthropology. Philadelphia, PA.
CLINCICAL WORKSHOPS
2010 Longhofer, J. “The Social and Psychological Dynamics of Shame: From Engagement to Termination.” Workshop for the Rutgers University, School of Social Work, Division of Continuing Education. April 16.
2010 Longhofer, J. & Floersch, J. “On Being and Having a Case Manager.” Workshop for the Rutgers University, School of Social Work, Division of Continuing Education. May 10.
2009 Longhofer, J. & Goldstone, M. “Gender and Sexuality: Clinical Understandings.” Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center.
OTHER INVITED PRESENTATIONS
1995 Longhofer, J. “In and of the World: The Hutterian Brethren and the Crisis of Common Property.” National Catholic University of America. The Cooper-Herzfeld Society Lecture.
1995 Longhofer, J. “The Hutterian Brethren in Crisis.” St. Andrews College, University of Manitoba. Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
1995 Longhofer, J. "A Crisis of Common Property.” Natural Resources Institute, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
1995 Longhofer, J. "When the Christian Right Comes to Town.” University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Canada.
1994 Longhofer, J. "Anthropological Perspectives on Death and Dying." University of Kansas School of Medicine Conference on Medicine and Religion.
1990 Longhofer, J. "Community and Capitalism." Invited presentation. Conrad Grebel College, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Conference on the Economics of Anabaptism.
1988 Longhofer, J. "The Mennonites: An Ethnohistory." Invited presentation to the Faculty of the Department of Anthropology at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri.
1987 Longhofer, J. "Northern European Agricultural History: Anthropological Problems and Perspectives." University of Kansas, Department of Anthropology Colloquium Series.
1988 Longhofer, J. "Sigmund Freud and a Realist Philosophy of Social Science." Invited presentation to the psychiatric staff of Western Missouri Mental Health Center, Kansas City, Missouri.
1987 Longhofer, J. "Anthropological Perspectives on Death and Grief." Invited presentation. University of Missouri‑Kansas City, School of Medicine‑Geriatric Program.
1986 Longhofer, J. "The Physiology of an Illness: A Parent Facing Death in a Commodity Delivery System". RIME Seminar Series, University of Missouri‑Kansas City School of Medicine.
CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION
1996 American Studies Association, 1996 Annual Meetings, Kansas City, Missouri, Organizing Committee.
1994 Central States Anthropological Association and the National Association of Ethnic Studies, Kansas City, Missouri.
1990 12th Annual Flint Hills Archaeology Conference. Convener and co-organizer, University of Missouri- Kansas City.
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS
Associations:
National Association of Social Workers
National Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work
American Psychoanalytic Association
Fellow, Society for Applied Anthropology, 2003
Fellow, American Anthropological Association, 1999
National Association of Practicing Anthropologists
Honor Societies:
Phi Kappa Phi
Alpha Kappa Delta
COURSES TAUGHT IN LAST 9 Years
G-Graduate, U-Undergraduate
Case Western Reserve University Teaching 2000-2009
World Culture and Politics (G) (Weatherhead School of Management, CWRU)
Mental Health Practice with Adults G)(MSASS, CWRU)
Mental Health Practice with Children and Adolescents (G)(MSASS, CWRU)
Human Development I: Child and Adolescent (G)(MSASS, CWRU)
Diversity, Discrimination, Oppression (G)(MSASS, CWRU)
Sages: Sexuality, Citizenship, and Social Action (U) (CWRU)
Sages: National, Ethnic, Religious, and “Other” Identities. (U) (CWRU)
ABLE (Ability Based Learning) (G)(MSASS, CWRU)
Models of Qualitative Research (G, doctoral) (MSASS, CWRU)
Race and Class: Implications for Social Work Practice (G)(MSASS, CWRU)
Child and Adolescent Development and Dysfunction (G) (MSASS, CWRU)
Psychological Anthropology (G) (CWRU)
Qualitative Research Methods (G) (CWRU, Weatherhead School of Management, Doctoral Program)
Social Policy (CWRU, Weatherhead School of Management, Doctoral Program)
Human Development over the Lifespan (G) (MSASS, CWRU)
Theories of Groups, Organizations, Communities and Social Class. (G)(MSASS, CWRU)
Participant Observation & Ethnographic Methods (CWRU, Weatherhead School of Management)
Anthropology of Food and Environment (G)(CWRU, Anthropology)
Anthropology of Religion (G) (CWRU, Anthropology)
Gender and Sexuality (G)(CWRU, Anthropology)
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Rutgers University 2009-2010
Lead Teacher, Social Work Perspectives on AIDS
Lead Teacher, Human Behavior in the Social Environment
DSW Task Force
Case Western Reserve University
Chair, Mental Health Concentration
Chair, Harris Library Committee, Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, Case Western Reserve University
Admissions Committee, EDM Program, Weatherhead School of Management
University Hospitals, Residency Program, Psychiatry, weekly rounds
University of North Texas
University Senate, 1998
University Senate, Nominations Committee
Office of Sponsored Projects, Research Committee, 1997-98
McNair Advisory Council, 1998-
Women’s Studies, Advisory Council, 1998-
Provost’s Committee on Ethnic Studies, 1998
Delta Lambda Phi, Faculty Advisor, 1998-
University of Missouri-Kansas City
African American Culture and History House, Advisory Board
College of Arts and Sciences Steering Committee
School of Medicine Selection Council
Ph.D. Executive Committee
Women’s Center Advisory Board
Executive Committee, Social Sciences Ph.D. Consortium Committee
AAUP Chapter President
South Africa Exchange Committee
Athletics Advisory Board, Chancellor’s Committee
President’s Committee on Admissions