Faculty Members and their Areas of Research

Faculty members in the Social Work graduate program are involved in cutting-edge research that contributes to the production of critical theory in the social work field.

Faculty Members’ Substantive Areas of Research and Assignment to Fields

Name & Title	Extension & E-mail	Fields	Research Focus
Anucha, Uzo Associate Professor	x. 23080 anucha@yorku.ca	- social policy - globalization and international issues - systemic oppression - community and direct practice	Homelessness, under-housing, and poverty; social work practice with immigrants and refugees; international social work; program evaluation; community-university research partnerships.
Badwall, Harjeet	x. 33271 hbadwall@yorku.ca	- race, ethnicity and culture - community and direct practice - systemic oppression	Racial and colonial discourses in social work and implications for practice; social construction of social work identities; critical race theory; connections between critical theory and practice; critical narrative practice; working with survivors of violence (intimate partner violence, sexual violence, systemic violence); social justice; community based research.
Chapman, Chris	x. 23082 chap@yorku.ca	- systemic oppression - community and direct practice - race, ethnicity, and culture - globalization and international issues	Alternatives to liberal individualism, ethical narrations of meaning-making, perpetration of injustice, historical accounts of systemic oppression, stories about social work told by groups overrepresented as involuntary clients, accountability, reflexivity, ethical practice. Practices of disablement and colonization.
Daley, Andrea Assistant Professor	x. 22847 adaley@yorku.ca	- systemic oppression - gender, sexuality and race - community and direct practice.	LGBT heath services access and experiences; home care service access for LGBT communities; the intersection between gender, sexuality, and madness within psychiatric contexts; health equity frameworks and organizational policy.
Good-Gingrich, Luann Associate Professor	x. 20028 luanngg@yorku.ca	- social policy - globalization and international issues - race, ethnicity, and culture - community and direct practice	Social exclusion and the intersections between the ideology, material realities, and subjective experience of policy systems and social programs; voluntary and transnational social exclusion and transnational social inclusion; social work practice across cultures.
Hayden, Wilburn Professor	x. 20467 whayden@yorku.ca	- race, ethnicity, and culture - community and direct practice - social welfare history and policy	Race and racism, disadvantaged communities, Appalachia and Black Appalachians, and race in Canada.
Heron, Barbara Associate Professor	x. 20521 bheron@yorku.ca	- globalization and international issues - systemic oppression - race, ethnicity, and culture	Social construction of helping identities; critical race theory; interlocking systems of oppression; North-South relations of power; international social work.
Liegghio, Maria	x. 66324 maben@yorku.ca	- community and direct practice - systemic oppression - globalization and international issues	Social work epistemology in child and youth mental health, the stigma of mental illness and epistemic violence, community development and organizing through social innovation and social enterprise, community-engaged scholarship and community-university alliances, international social work through Latin America, and critical social work practice and education.
Macdonald, Grant Associate Professor	x. 33385 grantm@yorku.ca	- social policy - community and direct practice	Research methodology; chemical dependence and social support; computer technology and social welfare.
Maiter, Sarah Associate Professor	x. 20567 smaiter@yorku.ca	- race, ethnicity, and culture - community and direct practice	Child welfare policies and practice; child welfare and race, culture and ethnicity; mental health services for diverse ethno-racial families; critical and anti racist social work practice, services to refugees and immigrants.
Matsuoka, Atsuko Associate Professor	x. 33271 atsukom@yorku.ca	- globalization and international issues - race, ethnicity, and culture - community and direct practice	Gerontological social work; ethics and aging; strengths-based critical social work; ethnicity and social work; immigrants, refugees and diaspora populations; mental health recovery; animals and social work.
McGrath, Susan Associate Professor	x. 66662 smcgrath@yorku.ca	- social policy - globalization and international issues - community and direct practice	Community organizing; social development; social movements; critical social work practice; role and function of third sector/civil society; social support processes for survivors of torture; refugee and forced migration issues.
McGuire, Wendy	x. 20567 wmcguire@yorku.ca
McKeen, Wendy Associate Professor	x. 23081 wmckeen@yorku.ca	- social policy - systemic oppression	Critical approaches to Canadian social welfare policy; social problem analysis; struggles for social change and social justice.
Mulé, Nick Associate Professor	x. 66325 nickmule@yorku.ca	- social policy - globalization and international issues - systemic oppression - race, ethnicity, and culture	Social inclusion/exclusion of gender and sexually diverse (LGBTQ) populations in social policy and service provision and the degree of their recognition as distinct communities in cultural, systemic and structural contexts as well as a critical analysis of the LGBTQ social movement and queer liberation theory.
O’Connell, Anne Associate Professor	x. 23082 aoconnel@yorku.ca	- social policy - globalization and international issues - race, ethnicity, and culture	Colonial and racial history of social policy/social welfare and its contemporary effects; critical race theory; theories of whiteness; empire and globalization; community based research.
Poon, Maurice Assistant Professor	x. 20087 mklpoon@yorku.ca	- systemic oppression - race, ethnicity, and culture - community and direct practice	HIV/AIDS issues related to ethno-racial communities; violence in intimate gay relationships; diaspora and identity, particularly related to gay Asian men; issues about diversity and social justice; queer and critical race theory; discourse analysis; community based-action research.
Razack, Narda Associate Professor	x. 70625 nrazack@yorku.ca	- globalization and international issues - race, ethnicity, and culture - community and direct practice	Critical international social work; North-South relations; race, space and postcolonialism; identity and diversity; Caribbean diaspora; anti-oppressive practice.
Rossiter, Amy Professor	x. 66673 rossiter@yorku.ca	- systemic oppression - community and direct practice	Application of critical theory to social work theory and practice; critical social work ethics; marginalized youth.
Ska, Bente	x. 33645 bente@yorku.ca
Swift, Karen Professor	x. 66328 kswift@yorku.ca	- social policy - systemic oppression	Application of critical theory to social work; feminism and women's issues; child welfare policy and practice; risk and risk assessment; poverty; organizational analysis.
Wong, Renita Associate Professor	x. 66322 rylwong@yorku.ca	- globalization and international issues - systemic oppression - race, ethnicity, and culture - community and direct practice	Critical social work; spirituality and social justice; mindfulness and contemplative critical social work pedagogy; postcolonial analysis in social work; mental health determinants of East and Southeast Asian immigrant women; social work in China.

Graduate Program in Social Work

Faculty Members and their Areas of Research