Ph.D. Alumni
Imho Bae (Ph.D. '91) is Dean of the College of Social Sciences at Soongsil University in Seoul, Korea. He formerly served as Dean of the School of Social Work at the same institution. He has been awarded the University of Minnesota's 2011 Distinguished Leadership Award for Internationals. Read the University of Minnesota's biography of Dean Bae.
Amy Hewitt (Ph.D. '98) has been appointed the new Director of the Research and Training Center for Community Living, Institute for Community Integration at the University of Minnesota. Congratulations Amy! Amy serves as Principal Investigator and/or Co-Principal Investigator or Director on several research, evaluation and/or demonstration grants. Current projects totaling $2,948,253 include (1) RTC on Community Living - NIDDR, DOE, (2) College of Direct Support/Frontline Supervision and Management- external contract, (3) National Resource Center on the Direct Support Workforce-DHHS/CMS, (4)University of California Berkeley CDSN technical assistance grant, and (5) Alaska DD Council and UCEDD technical assistance training project.
Amy is an international leader in the field of developmental disabilities and is one of the country’s foremost experts in disability workforce issues. She is a guest /contributing/consulting editor for the Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, ANCOR Links (An ANCOR publication of private provider practice and federal policy issues, the President’s Committee on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, and the Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities journal. She is a longstanding Board Member for the Arc Greater Twin Cities, Inc. Read more about Dr. Hewitt.
Congratulations to Matthew Bogenschutz (Ph.D. '10) for his new position as Assistant Professor of Social Work at Adelphi University in New York.
Jessica Toft, Ph.D. ('05) is an Assistant Professor at the University of St. Thomas School of Social Work. She published in the December 2010 issue of Social Service Review an article titled "The Political Act of Public Talk: How Legislators Justified Welfare Reform."
Marilyn Peterson Armour, Ph.D. ('00) associate professor, University of Texas School of Social Work, has been appointed to her university's Academy of Distinguished Teachers.
Congratulations to Tory Hansen, recent SSW PhD, who has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Conflict Analysis and Resolution in the Department of Conflict Analysis and Resolution in the School for Humanities and Social Sciences at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, FL.
Einat Peled, Ph.D. ('93), has been promoted to Associate Professor (the American equivalent of Full Professor) at the Bob Shapell School of Social Work, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
Eonju Park, Ph.D. ('09), has been appointed to a Research Professor position at the Korean Women's Institute at one of Korea's leading universities, Ewha Women's University in Seoul.
Ngoh-Tiong Tan, Ph.D. ('88), has
been named the Dean, School of Human Development and Social Services at
the Singapore Institute of Management, better known as UniSIM. He will
oversee graduate programs in social work and counseling as well as
undergraduate programs in social work, counseling, human resources, and
child education. Prof. Tan was a tenured Professor at Augsburg College before he joined UniSIM. He spent 17 years at the
National University of Singapore's Department of Social Work. Over the years, he has been a visiting scholar at Harvard University, Cambridge University, UC Berkeley, Oslo
University and Sydney University. He has extensive
experience and research in social work, social enterprise,
dispute and conflict resolution, parenting and community
mediation, dynamics of change and crisis and disaster
management. Tan received the 2010 University of
Minnesota Distinguished Leadership Award for Internationals.
Read more
about Dean Tan.
Muhammad M. Haj-Yahia, Ph.D. ('91),
has been promoted to Full Professor. He was also awarded the
University of Minnesota's 2009 Distinguished Leadership for
Internationals Award. Prof. Haj-Yahia holds the Gordon Brown Chair in
Social Work at the Paul Baerwald School of Social Work at The Hebrew
University in Jerusalem. He is the world's leading scholar on family
violence in the Arab communities of Israel and Palestine.
Read more about Prof. Haj-Yahia.
Rosemary Link, Ph.D. ('86), has accepted
the position of Associate Vice President of Academic Affairs at Simpson
College in Des Moines, Iowa. Previously, Rosemary was a professor in the
Social Work Department and Dean of the Graduate School at Augsburg
College. E-mail Rosemary.