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Dr. Andrews is co-founder of USC’s Institute for Families in Society and, from 1999 to 2006, was Director of the Institute. Based on her long term interests, she developed and taught an elective on victimization and survivor services. Dr. Andrews coordinates the research sequence of the Curriculum Committee and serves on the Learning Outcomes subcommittee. Research interests include child abuse and neglect, victimization, non-profit management, and family policy. Her literary works reflect this as she has written several books highlighting rights of children and victimization, in addition to the numerous articles published. She has been with the College of Social Work at USC since 1986. |
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Dr. Laura E. Boudon is currently Director of Student Affairs/Instructor at the College of Social Work. She earned her Ph.D. in International Relations from Florida International University with a dissertation entitled World Coffee Markets and National Coffee Parastatals: A Comparative Analysis of Colombia and Côte d’Ivoire and recently earned her Master of Social Work from the University of South Carolina. Dr. Boudon has seven years of prior program management and academic advising experience in higher education, having worked with programs and students at both Georgetown University and American University in Washington, DC.
Dr. Boudon has a number of diverse academic interests: community social work, higher education, international education, cross-cultural understanding, international political economy, Central and South America, Francophone West Africa, Hispanics in South Carolina, gender, coffee, adoption and grief. She is bilingual in English and French and has intermediate proficiency in Spanish.
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Dr. Brown’s area of expertise is women and addictions. She is our in-house technology expert; she chairs the Education Technology Committee and covers technology issues on the Curriculum Committee. Dr. Brown has been working with the Southeast Addictions Technology Center to develop a web-based course. She has been with USC’s College of Social Work since 1998.
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Since 1994, Dr. Choi has been a key figure in the College’s Korean program and he is an advisor to the USC Korean Student Association. He was selected “Professor of the Year” by the 2005 MSW graduating class. Research interest include mental health, cross-cultural studies, and family interactions. |
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Dr. Chou joined the College’s faculty in the fall of 2006. She is Director of the South Carolina Center for Gerontology and Coordinator of the Certificate Program in Gerontology. Research Interests: Aging; Health Disparities; Long-Term Care; Quality of Life; Job Satisfaction; Older Workers; Older Asian-Americans; Aging in China and Taiwan; International Social Work.
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Dr. Cooper-Lewter teaches micro practice and psychopathology. He is developing a new elective on children’s mental health. Among other issues, his special area of interest is mental health in the African American community. He is the only regular faculty member, other than Dr. Huisman Jezowski, who teaches any undergraduate courses. Dr. Nicholas Cooper-Lewter's column "Beyond better: A social work instructor helps students understand performance and potential." is in the Spring 2007 issue of the Carolinian. Originally Dr. Cooper- Lewter was hired as Visiting Professor for 9 months starting August 16, 2003 with reappointments for each following academic year. On August 16, 2006, his status was changed to Lecturer with subsequent reappointment now from August 16, 2007 to May 15, 2008.
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Dr. Espadas joined the faculty in the fall of 2006. His special interests include Latino and immigration issues. Further, he served on the International Task Force of the College and is exploring an international study-abroad partnership in Mexico. In addition Dr. Espadas is establishing a research project on clinical treatment of adolescents in the city of Cancun. He is also currently participating in the Latino Consortium of USC.
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Dr. Farber has chaired the College’s doctoral program since 2004 and has been with the University since 1998. She has studied adolescent pregnancy and written a book on that topic. Recent funded research efforts have focused on poor white single mothers in the South and kinship networks among rural African Americans. Additional areas of research interest include: single motherhood, women in work, urban poverty, as well as, adolescent pregnancy. |
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Dr. Forthofer divides her time between her role as Associate Dean for Research at the College and her role as Director of the Institute for Families in Society. Her background is in health behavior/health education. Research interests include: health disparities, social determinants of health, community-based prevention research, applied research methodology and evaluation research, and diffusion of innovation. She has been with the College since 2006. |
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Dr. Fram’s research and service interests include early childhood, parenting, and women and poverty in the South. More specifically, Dr. Fram concentrates her research interests on maternal and child poverty, child care and early education, poverty policy and women's workforce participation and inequality, stratification and social capital theory. She is currently coordinator for the Capstone Sequence on the Curriculum Committee and is also active in both the policy and research sequences. Dr. Fram has been with USC’s College of Social Work since 2003. |
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Dr. Freeman is coordinator for the Advanced Practice with Individuals, Families, and Groups concentration. Based on her expertise she has developed and taught an elective on the Satir Growh Model and another on Narrative therapy. Dr. Freeman chairs the College’s Tenure and Promotion Committee. Other research interests include: Feminist Theory, feminist pedagogy, social work education, gender, women's studies, and images of social workers in movies. Dr. Freeman has been with the College since 1986.
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Dr. Gray teaches community practice and the capstone course. Until this year she was the capstone coordinator and now chairs the electives subcommittee of the Curriculum Committee. She recently received a $30,000 research grant from the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy to study land trusts in Durham, NC, becoming the first social worker and first qualitative researcher to secure a grant from this Institute. She has filled leadership roles on the boards of ACOSA (the Association for Community Organization and Social Administration) and SC Fair Share. Since Dr. Gray joined the College in 1999, her research interests have included poverty, single mother families, interventions, grassroots community organizing and community land trusts. |
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Dr. Johnson chairs the Curriculum Committee, the Learning Outcomes Subcommittee, and the Self-study Committee. On June 8, 2007 she was named interim Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. Dr. Johnson is co-author of Human Behavior in the Social Environment: A New Synthesis. Her research interests are consumerism/indebtedness and instrument design. She has been with the College since 1994. |
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Dr. Jones was named Interim Director of the Center for Child and Family studies in January of 2007. His area of interest is organization and management of human service organizations, as well as, child welfare policy and programs. He has been a member of the faculty since 2002. |
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Dr. Kim joined the COSW faculty in 2005. His research area is mainly child abuse. In addition Dr. Kim has engaged in the following research subjects: child welfare/ child maltreatment prevention; neighborhood effects on children’s & adolescent’s health outcome; children & adolescents’ health & health related behaviors (e.g., STD, early pregnancy, alcohol & other drug abuse); welfare reform; domestic violence; social work program evaluation; and application of technology & quantitative research methodology |
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Dr. Logan holds the I. Dequincey Newman Institute for Peace and Social Change endowed chair in the College of Social work. In that role she organizes the College’s annual Social Justice Day. She also chairs the College’s International Development Task Force and the Student Grievance, Standards, Petitions, and Ethics Committee. Dr. Logan led study-abroad tours in Ghana in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005. Dr. Logan coordinates the Social and Economic Justice and Populations-at risk content for the Curriculum Committee. Among her research interests are: social and justice issues impacting families and children; culturally specific services for children and families of color; psycho-spiritual dimension of practice and education; addictive behaviors; and racial identity development She has been with the College since 1999. |
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Dr. Pooler’s research interest is professional and organizational health. Other areas of interest include professional ethics and professional development of social workers and social workers experiencing impairment. He chairs the foundation practice sequence for the Curriculum Committee and also serves on the Learning Outcomes Subcommittee. He is currently faculty advisor to the Social Work Student Association and has been with the college since 2005. |
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Dr. Rhodes coordinates the HBSE sequence for the Curriculum Committee. She is co-author of Human Behavior in the Social Environment: A New Synthesis. Her research interests include women and addictions. Dr. Rhodes leads a weekly group for female parents incarcerated at the Camille Graham Correctional Institution in Columbia. She has been a member of the faculty since 1990. |
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Dr. Selmi chairs the policy sequence for the Curriculum Committee. His interest is social welfare history. Other research areas Dr. Selmi is concerned with include community organization and development, affordable housing and health care, poverty and inequality, civil rights and liberties, and human service organizations. He has been with the college since 2003. |
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Dr. Tirrito served as the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs for the past two years. In that role, she chaired the Professional Linkage Committee. Her area of research and expertise is gerontology and spirituality, as well as, social work education. She has written several books and many articles reflecting these interests. She has been part of the faculty since 1991. |
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Mr. Ward had been Director of Field Education at the College since 1993. He has been an active researcher, presenter, and writer on issues of social work field education. Some of these issues include: social worker turnover and retention; training issues in public social services; video conferencing in field work; and international social work issues. Mr. Ward represents field on the Curriculum Committee and also serves on the Learning Outcomes Subcommittee. |
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Dr. Wolfer is coordinator for the values and ethics content in the MSW curriculum and serves on the Learning Outcomes Subcommittee. He has been very active in the development of the capstone course; he has written many decision cases and articles about the decision case method of instruction and has co-edited three books of decision cases. He also chairs the Executive Committee of the College. Faith-based social services and violence and trauma are among Dr. Wolfer’s research interests. He has been with the COSW since 1996. |
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