PhD Program: Faculty
Our faculty are nationally and internationally recognized leaders and scholars in social work. Each student has an opportunity to work closely with faculty in the School of Social Work and through out the University at Buffalo to develop their interests and research expertise across a wide variety of areas of interest. These include, but are not limited to:
- Aging and end of life practice (Kim, Nam, Robinson, Waldrop)
- Alcohol and other drugs (Nochajski, D. Patterson, Smyth)
- Child welfare (Bay-Cheng, Doueck, Critelli, Rittner)
- Cultural identify and social impact (Critelli, K Patterson, Weaver)
- Domestic and school violence (Dulmus, Rittner)
- Evaluation research (Dulmus, Kazi, Kost, Nochajski, K. Patterson)
- Feminism (Bay-Cheng, Elze)
- Gender and sexuality (Bay-Cheng, Elze)
- Poverty and community policy (Keefe, Kost, Nam, K. Patterson)
- Qualitative research, ethnographic methods (Robinson, Weaver)
- Quantitative research modeling (Butler, Dulmus, Nochajski, Smyth)
- Rural medical and mental health practice (Keefe, Weaver)
- Trauma studies (Butler, Rittner, Smyth, Waldrop)
