DeBrenna L. Agbényiga, Ph.D, LMSW
Title: Assistant Professor; Assistant to the Dean for Diversity and Multicultural Programs in the College of Social Science
Professional Interests: Diversity & higher education, international social work practice (focus on women, children, family development and health), international social work education & field training, cross-cultural comparative organizational analysis, organizational culture, kinship/foster care (policy & service delivery)
E-mail: agbenyi1@msu.edu

Ama Agyemang, MSW
Title: Kinship Care Project Coordinator
Professional Interests: Psychosocial issues of kinship families, legal and legislative polices affecting kinship care in Michigan
E-mail: kinship@msu.edu

Brian K. Ahmedani, MSW
Title: Graduate Advisor, Clinical Instructor
Professional Interests: Substance abuse/drug dependence/addictions, mental health, families/youth, international/cross-cultural analysis
E-mail: ahmedan2@msu.edu

Gary R. Anderson, Ph.D, LMSW
Title: Professor and Director of the School of Social Work
Professional Interests: Child welfare, child abuse and neglect. ethics and values
E-mail: gary.anderson@ssc.msu.edu

Gretchen Archer, MSW
Title: Graduate Assistant
Professional Interests: Program design, research, and evaluation using qualitative and quantitative methodology, empowerment and organizations that utilize an empowerment-based focus with their clients, young adults aging out of foster care, diversity, parenting in the LBGT community
E-mail: archerg1@msu.edu

Louanne Bakk, MSW
Title: Clinical Instructor
Professional Interests: Health care policy for older adults; Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act; Racial disparities in access to prescription medications; Racial disparities in preventative services among older persons
E-mail: bakkloua@msu.edu

Mary B. Barron, Ph.D, LMSW
Title: Clinical Assistant Professor
Professional Interests: Clinical treatment and intervention with children, adolescents, adults, couples, families, and groups, mental health and neurobiology, attachment theory, solution focused therapy, staff training and agency consultation, divorce adjustment and families in transition, mediation/conflict resolution
E-mail: barronm@msu.edu

Martha A. Beuerle, DSW, LMSW
Title: Clinical Assistant Professor
Professional Interests: Clinical work with families, couples and individuals, issues related to development in all family types, evidence-based practice.
E-mail: beuerle@msu.edu

Tina Blaschke, MSW, LLMSW
Title: Assistant Coordinator, Distance Education Program; Research Specialist; Clinical Instructor
Professional Interests: Distance education; Blended learning; Social work with older adults; Technology and aging
E-mail: blaschke@msu.edu

Susan Bowden, MSW, LMSW
Title: Clinical Instructor; Undergraduate Program Coordinator
Professional Interests: Gerontology, chronic pain and chronic illnesses, social work practice, diversity, undergraduate education
E-mail: susan.bowden@ssc.msu.edu

Michele A. Brock, MSW, LMSW
Title: Clinical Instructor; Continuing Education Program Coordinator
Professional Interests: Survivors of child abuse and sexual assault, reflective supervision, sexuality education throughout the lifespan
E-mail: brockm@msu.edu

Linda A. Campbell, MSW, LMSW
Title: Clinical Instructor; Field Education Coordinator, Flint Program
Professional Interests: Issues of sexual orientation and gender identity, civil rights issues, community organizing, social policy
E-mail: campb436@msu.edu

Hyunkag Cho, Ph.D
Title: Assistant Professor
Professional Interests: Social Policy in the Intersection of Domestic Violence and Criminal Justice System; Cross-National Comparisons of Social Policy; Community Development; Community Organization
E-mail: chohyu12@msu.edu

Suzanne L. Cross, Ph.D, LMSW
Title: Associate Professor
Professional Interests: Gerontology issues with a special interest in kinship care, elder maltreatment and neglect, bereavement therapy with a special interest in historical trauma, collaboration with communities to address concerns, issues related to Child Welfare and the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978
E-mail: suzanne.cross@ssc.msu.edu

Angelique G. Day, LLMSW
Title: Research Specialist
Professional Interests: Child welfare; Issues impacting youth in transition; Kinship care; Legislative advocacy; Issues that impact American Indian children and families
E-mail: dayangel@msu.edu

Margaret Dimond, MSW, LMSW
Title: Clinical Instructor
Professional Interests: Health behaviors, treatment compliance, end-of-life issues
E-mail: dimond@msu.edu

Monaca Eaton, MSW, LBSW
Title: Clinical Instructor; Continuing Education Assistant Coordinator
Professional Interests: Macro practice, community development, administration, program development, implementation and evaluation, research methods, recruitment and retention of child welfare workers, social work education, art and music therapy
E-mail: eatonmon@msu.edu

Julie K. Farman, MSW, LMSW
Title: Flint/Oakland MSW Program Coordinator; Clinical Instructor
Professional Interests: Children and adolescents, older adults, grief and loss, death and dying, group work
E-mail: farmanju@msu.edu

Victoria A. Fitton, Ph.D., LMSW
Title: Ruth Koehler Endowed Clinical Professor in Children Services
Professional Interests: Private practice; Sexual abuse, trauma, play therapy, depression, complicated grief and loss; Development of therapeutic tools for practice settings; Clinical supervision; Distance and blended social work education; Attachment; Child development
E-mail: fitton@msu.edu

Paul P. Freddolino, Ph.D
Title: Professor; Distance Education Program Coordinator
Professional Interests: Technology and social work practice, distance education, technology in social work education, program evaluation, mental health services research
E-mail: freddoli@msu.edu

Arnold L. Greenfield, Ph.D
Title: Adjunct Assistant Professor
Professional Interests: Statistical analysis, public mental health policy, evidence-based practices for persons with severe and persistent mental illness, outcome measurement and management
E-mail: greenfi4@msu.edu

Ronald E. Hall, Ph.D
Title: Associate Professor
Professional Interests: Mental health (individual/group psychotherapy); Cutaneo-chroma; Intraracial racism; Bleaching Syndrome; Black/White conflict; Organizational issues; Race relations/diversity
E-mail: hallr@msu.edu

Rena D. Harold, Ph.D, LMSW
Title: Professor; Associate Director of the School of Social Work; Coordinator of Graduate Programs
Professional Interests: Family development including socialization practices of parents and lesbian parenting, assessing needs and examining the impact of macro social issues on individuals and families, and those factors that can mediate the effects, practice research including program evaluation and using qualitative methodology, socialization influences of schooling and schools as a context for social work practice
E-mail: haroldr@msu.edu

John M. Herrick, Ph.D
Title: Professor Emeritus
Professional Interests: Social welfare policy and services, social welfare and social work history, international social work, aging policy and services
E-mail: herrick@msu.edu

Joan Ilardo, MSW, LMSW
Title: Clinical Instructor
Professional Interests: Aging and family systems, community-based systems of care, community initiatives, health care for at-risk populations, program design and evaluation
E-mail: ilardo@msu.edu

Muthoni G. Imungi, MSW, LMSW
Title: Clinical Instructor; Field Education Assistant
Professional Interests: Refugees, resettlement, acculturation, and empowerment, especially as it relates to African women
E-mail: imungimu@msu.edu

Cynthia Jackson-Elmoore, Ph.D
Title: Associate Professor; Dean, MSU Honors College
Professional Interests: Role of nonprofit organizations in urban political processes, intersections of public policy, community design, physical activity and health, urban politics and policy, state and local government
E-mail: jacks174@msu.edu

David Katz, Ph.D
Title: Associate Professor; Associate Director, Canadian Studies Centre
Professional Interests: "Globalization" i.e. political and social effects of integration of the world economy, impact of globalization on social welfare programs particularly in Canada, the course and reasons for decline of Canada's single payer health care system and implications for the US
E-mail: katz@msu.edu

Angie Kennedy, Ph.D, LMSW
Title: Assistant Professor
Professional Interests: Poverty and welfare policy; Community, family, and partner violence among adolescents, particularly adolescent mothers; Relationships between cumulative violence exposure and mental health and school outcomes; Homelessness and social support among adolescent mothers; Risk and resilience
E-mail: kenne258@msu.edu

David G. Knaggs, MSW, LMSW
Title: Clinical Instructor
Professional Interests: Promotion of asset-based social change through integration of scholarship with best practices in the field, practice of social workers as macro level change agents in areas involving the application of asset-based social change through university/community connections in child welfare and through human services administration
E-mail: knaggsd@msu.edu

Rie (Leeay) Kobayashi, MSW, LMSW
Title: Clinical Instructor
Professional Interests: End of life issues and interdisciplinary/interprofessional collaboration
E-mail: kobayas6@msu.edu

Joe Kozakiewicz, JD, LMSW
Title: Clinical Assistant Professor; Director, Chance at Childhood; Director, Kinship Care Resource Center
Professional Interests: Child advocacy, focusing on children involved in the family court system for cases involving child maltreatment, child custody, guardianship, juvenile delinquency, and parenting time matters, interdisciplinary education, specifically joint social work and legal child welfare education, clinical education, specifically child welfare, conducting family court hearings in matters involving child maltreatment, adoption, and delinquency matters
E-mail: kozakiew@msu.edu

Sheryl Pimlott Kubiak, Ph.D, LMSW
Title: Associate Professor
Professional Interests: Intersections of mental health, substance abuse and criminal justice at individual and systems levels; women in the criminal justice system; cumulative trauma exposure and PTSD; clinical and organizational processes associated with treatment.
E-mail: spk@msu.edu

Marcia Lampen, Ph.D, LMSW
Title: Clinical Assistant Professor
Professional Interests: Older adult issues, including health care policy and end of life issues; Social welfare concerns of developing countries, particularly the medical and social struggles of coping with both AIDS and malaria
E-mail: lampenma@msu.edu

Linda L. Lawrence, MSW, LMSW
Title: Clinical Instructor; Undergraduate Advisor
Professional Interests: Crisis intervention, grief and loss, death and dying, art therapy, animal assisted therapy
E-mail: lawren45@msu.edu

Kyunghee Lee, Ed.D
Title: Assistant Professor
Professional Interests: Child and family policy analysis, poverty and human development, child care and early childhood education, work and family well-being for low income families, and cross-cultural issues
E-mail: choiky@msu.edu

Jo Ann P. McFall, MSW, LMSW
Title: Senior Academic Specialist; Associate Director for Field Education
Professional Interests: Social work field education, currently curriculum development and educational outcome assessment, young adult mental health, substance abuse clinical intervention, spirituality and clinical intervention
E-mail: mcfallj@msu.edu

John K. Mooradian, Ph.D, LMSW
Title: Assistant Professor; Clinical Social Work with Families Certificate Program Coordinator
Professional Interests: Couple and family therapy, adolescent therapy, trauma and resilience, clinical supervision, innovative social work education
E-mail: mooradi1@msu.edu

Julie A. Navarre, MSW, LMSW
Title: Continuing Specialist; Field Education Coordinator, East Lansing Program
Professional Interests: Developing and implementing an excellent field education program, holistic health and social work education
E-mail: julie.navarre@ssc.msu.edu

Karen Newman, LMSW, CAAC
Title: Graduate Advisor, Clinical Instructor
Professional Interests: Social work clinical & generalist practice, Substance abuse/drug dependence/addiction & co-occurring disorders
E-mail: karen.newman@ssc.msu.edu

Margaret Nielsen, Ph.D, LMSW
Title:Assistant Professor Emeritus
Professional Interests: Social welfare policy and services, disability issues, peace and social justice, diversity
E-mail: nielsen@msu.edu

Delanie P. Pope, JD
Title: Clinical Assistant Professor; Staff Attorney, Chance at Childhood
Professional Interests: Child advocacy, focusing on children involved in the family court system for cases involving child maltreatment, child custody, guardianship, juvenile delinquency, and parenting time matters, interdisciplinary education, specifically joint social work and legal child welfare education, clinical education, specifically child welfare, conducting referee hearings in circuit and probate courts for cases involving child abuse and neglect, termination of parental rights, consent to adoption, juvenile delinquency, parenting time and child support.
E-mail: poped@msu.edu

Joanne Riebschleger, Ph.D, LMSW
Title: Assistant Professor, joint appointment with Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station
Professional Interests: Rural social work practice, families of people with psychiatric disabilities, outcome assessment, children and families, health and mental health, micro and macro practice
E-mail: riebsch1@msu.edu

Margie Rodriguez LeSage, Ph.D, LMSW
Title: Assistant Professor
Professional Interests: Physical health and emotional distress among couples, personal experiences, knowledge, and attitudes regarding end-of-life care issues of social work students and faculty, perceptions of symptom experience of hospice latino patients, perception and experience of depressive symptoms in older latino couples.
E-mail: margie.rodriguezlesage@ssc.msu.edu

Danielle L. Rudder, LLMSW
Title: Research Specialist
Professional Interests: Neuropsychology; Neurochemistry; Psychopharmacology; Personality; Sleep research; Positive psychology; Cognitive science; DSM-V
E-mail: rudderda@msu.edu

Sally A. Rypkema, Ph.D, LMSW
Title: Clinical Associate Professor, Blended State-wide MSW Program Coordinator
Professional Interests: Adult development and aging, social gerontology, aging policy, using technology to enhance learning
E-mail: rypkemas@msu.edu

Linda Schmidt, MSW
Title: Clinical Instructor
Professional Interests: Value-based small group decision-making, impact of social programs and cultural definitions on "problems"
E-mail: schmidtL3@Michigan.gov

John R. Seita, Ed.D
Title: Associate Professor, joint appointment with Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station and MSU Extension
Professional Interests: Aging out of foster care, foster care alumni leadership
E-mail: seita@msu.edu

Robert Sheehan, LMSW, MBA
Title: Clinical Instructor
Professional Interests: Social change, organizational change, human services management, coalition building, policy development, program/service development, and mental health and substance abuse
E-mail: sheehanr@msu.edu

Erica D. Shifflet Gibson, MSW, LMSW
Title: Coordinator of Field Education, Flint and Oakland MSW Programs, Clinical Instructor
Professional Interests: Public policy; Homelessness; Technology and social work
E-mail: shiffle6@msu.edu

Marya R. Sosulski, Ph.D, LMSW
Title: Assistant Professor
Professional Interests: Anti-poverty, labor, and welfare policy and programs, post-secondary education, critical analysis of race, class, gender, and sexual orientation in social welfare policy and social work practice, mixed qualitative and quantitative research methodology
E-mail: sosulski@msu.edu

John R. Sougstad, Ed.S, LMSW
Title: Clinical Instructor; School Social Worker Certificate Program Coordinator
Professional Interests: Effects and dynamics of home-school relationships on academic and behavioral success, technology applications for training and professional development purposes (e.g. Internet-based course design, distance education, interactive television, hybrid courses, etc.), social, emotional & behavioral assessment and intervention with preschool and school-age youth, their families, schools and communities, diagnostic and treatment issues relative to autism spectrum disorders
E-mail: sougsta2@msu.edu

Kimberly Steed, MSW, LMSW
Title: Clinical Instructor; Program Coordinator, Chance at Childhood
Professional Interests: Child advocacy, focusing on children involved in the family court system for cases involving child maltreatment, child custody, guardianship, juvenile delinquency, and parenting time matters, interdisciplinary education, specifically joint social work and legal child welfare education, clinical education, specifically child welfare, kinship care policy/legislation for subsidized guardianship in Michigan, safe exchange/visitation for victims of domestic violence (children and custodial parents)
E-mail: kimberly.steed@ssc.msu.edu

John Timothy Stocks, Ph.D
Title: Associate Professor
Professional Interests: Child/adolescent mental health, children's rights, ethics, international social work, secular social work, evaluation and measurement, microcomputer and network applications in social work practice.
E-mail: stocks@msu.edu

Glenn R. Stutzky, MSW, LMSW
Title: Clinical Instructor
Professional Interests: Bullying: development of violence in schools; Cyber bullying: use of modern communications technologies; hazing: harmless initiations or abuse? Girl bullies: why so cruel? Workplace bullying; Indian boarding schools: Impact on Indian children and parents.
E-mail: stutzky1@msu.edu

Tina M. Timm, Ph.D, LMSW
Title: Assistant Professor, joint appointment with Department of Family and Child Ecology Marriage and Family Therapy Program
Professional Interests: Sexuality across the lifespan, relationship and sexual satisfaction, adult attachment, women’s issues, clinical specialties include couple and family therapy, sex therapy, feminist family therapy/women’s issues, internal family systems therapy, play therapy with children, sexual trauma
E-mail: timmt@msu.edu

Abigail Waller, LMSW
Title: Field Liaison and Partnership Coordinator
Professional Interests: Psychotherapy to children, adults and families and diagnosis and treatment of Autism Spectrum Disorders
E-mail: wallera@msu.edu

Margaret (Peg) Whalen, Ph.D
Title: Clinical Assistant Professor; Research and Evaluation Specialist
Professional Interests: research and evaluation design and implementation, Animal assisted therapy
E-mail: Peg.Whalen@ssc.msu.edu

Ellen E. Whipple, Ph.D, LMSW
Title: Associate Professor; Interdepartmental Graduate Specialization in Infancy and Early Childhood Development Chair
Professional Interests: Child welfare, improving treatment strategies for physically abusive families with preschool-aged children, better understanding the role of subtle parent-child interactions in the escalation of child abuse and neglect, community-based program evaluations, identifying effectiveness of various early intervention models for at-risk families, infant mental health, clinical and research perspectives, improving social work education and evaluating teaching methods
E-mail: whipple@msu.edu

Victor L. Whiteman, Ph.D, LMSW
Title: Professor Emeritus
Professional Interests: Evaluation of social work practice, social policy, the social security program
E-mail: victor.whiteman@ssc.msu.edu

Cheryl Williams-Hecksel, MSSW, LMSW
Title: Coordinator of Field Education, Blended Statewide MSW Program
Professional Interests: Field education, Mental health, Child welfare, Quality and accreditation in human services
E-mail: will1534@msu.edu

Amanda T. Woodward, Ph.D
Title: Assistant Professor
Professional Interests: Gerontology; Mental Illness; Mental Health Service Use; Informal Support; Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Mental Health Service Use
E-mail: awoodwar@msu.edu