Full Social Welfare Faculty List

Laura Abrams
Doc. Program Chair & Associate Professor
Email:abrams@spa.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-206-0693
Office Location:Public Affairs 5323
Research Expertise: Incarcerated youth and identity transitions; the transition to adulthood among formerly incarcerated youth; low-income mothers and postpartum depression; qualitative and mixed methods research; social welfare history; critical race theory and social work pedagogy. Juvenile Justice and Reentry Project Web site

Helmut Anheier
Professor
Email:anheier@spa.ucla.edu
Phone: (310) 825-2318
Campus Extension: x52318
Office Location:Public Affairs 5325
Research Expertise: Civil society, nonprofit organization, philanthropic foundations, NGOs, globalization and civil society, comparative social and cultural policy, research methodology, social movements and networks.

A.E. (Ted) Benjamin
Professor
Email:tedbenj@ucla.edu
Phone: (310) 206-6044
Campus Extension: x66044
Office Location:Public Affairs 5232
Research Expertise: Patterns of public response to the needs of people with disabilities; access, quality and organizational models of home- and community-based services; politics of long-term care and inter-generational issues.

Laura Alongi Brinderson
Field Faculty
Email:alongi@spa.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-206-9201

Steven Clark
Director of Field Education
Email:clark@spa.ucla.edu
Phone: (310) 825-7840
Research Expertise: Clinical practice theory as it relates to work with couples and families.

Joycelyn McKay Crumpton
Field Faculty
Email:Crumpton@spa.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-206-6048
Office Location:Public Affairs 3250

JoAnn Damron-Rodriguez
Adjunct Professor
Email:jdamron@ucla.edu
Phone: (310) 206-3233
Campus Extension: x63233
Research Expertise: Community-based long-term care; gerontology/geriatric education; minority aging.

Todd Franke
Associate Professor
Email:tfranke@ucla.edu
Phone: (310) 206-6102
Campus Extension: x66102
Office Location:Public Affairs Building 5317
Research Expertise: Child welfare and adolescent violence; Evaluation and evaluative research; school readiness; health and social service integration and school reform;

Bridget Freisthler
Assistant Professor
Email:freisthler@spa.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-206-1602
Office Location:Public Affairs 5242

Yeheskel (Zeke) Hasenfeld
Professor
Email:zekeh@ucla.edu
Phone: (310) 825-2194
Campus Extension: x52194
Office Location:Public Affairs Building 5333
Research Expertise: Social welfare policy and service delivery systems; implementation of social service systems; management of human services; poverty and welfare reform; program evaluation.

W. Toby Hur
Email:thur@spa.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-9736
Office Location:Public Affairs 5334
Research Expertise: Organizational, community and policy practice.

Alfreda Iglehart
Vice Chair & Associate Professor
Email:iglehart@ucla.edu
Phone: (310) 825-7377
Campus Extension: x57377
Office Location:Public Affairs Bldg. 5240
Research Expertise: Social service delivery systems; public child welfare; foster care; community self-help.

Aurora Jackson
Professor
Email:ajacks@ucla.edu
Phone: (310) 825-4198
Campus Extension: x54198
Office Location:Public Affairs 
Research Expertise: Risk and resiliency among poor and near-poor single mothers and their young children; low-wage maternal employment, maternal psychological well-being, parenting, family processes, and child development; welfare reform.

Michelle Johnson
Assistant Professor
Email:maj@ucla.edu
Phone: (310) 825-9661
Campus Extension: x59661
Office Location:Public Affairs 

Stuart Kirk
Professor
Email:kirk@ucla.edu
Phone: (310) 206-2698
Campus Extension: x62698
Office Location:Public Affairs 5218
Research Expertise: Mental health services and politics; intervention research; clinical decision-making; development of psychiatric diagnoses; deviant behavior; research utilization.

Gerardo Lavina
Field Education Faculty
Email:glavina@ucla.edu
Phone: (310) 206-1405
Campus Extension: x61405
Office Location:Public Affairs 5235
Research Expertise: Public child welfare; school social work; multicultural issues

Jorja Leap
Adjunct Associate Professor
Email:jleap@ucla.edu
Phone: 310-206-6170
Office Location:Public Affairs 5339
Research Expertise: Gang Violence and Youth Development; Program Planning, Implementation and Evaluation of Gang Prevention and Intervention; Crisis Intervention; Attachment, Separation and Loss.

Karen Lee
Field Education Faculty
Email:klee@spa.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-794-4441
Office Location:Public Affairs 5342
Research Expertise: Geriatric Social Work; Mental Health; Case Management; End of Life; Older Adult issues.

Lené Levy-Storms
Associate Professor
Email:llstorms@ucla.edu
Phone: (310) 825-7388
Campus Extension: x57388
Office Location:Public Affairs 5226
Research Expertise: Aging, Communication, Social support, program evaluation, mixed methods

Ailee Moon
Associate Professor
Email:aileem@ucla.edu
Phone: (310) 825-6219
Campus Extension: x56219
Research Expertise: Social welfare finance and policy; social service program evaluation; gerontology; welfare reform.

Barbara Nelson
Professor
Email:nelson@spa.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-206-7979
Office Location:Public Affairs 6292
Research Expertise: Conflict mediation in civil society, leadership, social policy, nonprofits, philanthropy, social movements, and women and politics.

Mary Kay Oliveri
Field Education Faculty
Email:mko@ucla.edu
Phone: (310) 206-6282
Campus Extension: x66282
Office Location:Public Affairs 5332

Paul Ong
Professor
Email:pmong@ucla.edu
Phone: 310 614-2458
Office Location:Public Affairs 5287
Research Expertise: Institutional appointment with Asian-American Studies. Race, ethnicity and environmentalism; social inequality; urban labor markets; immigrants in the urban economy; welfare and work; geographic information systems and transportation planning.

Robert Schilling
Professor, Department Chair
Email:rfs@ucla.edu
Phone: (310) 794-7665
Campus Extension: x47665
Research Expertise: Substance abuse and related problems including HIV transmission and child welfare.

Michelle Talley
Field Education Faculty
Email:talley@spa.ucla.edu
Phone: (310) 206-2697
Campus Extension: x62697
Office Location:Public Affairs 3250
Research Expertise: Youth and families, Education issues, Domestic violence, Substance Abuse/Dependence, Attachment/Early Bonding issues, and abuse and neglect issues

Fernando Torres-Gil
Professor and Associate Dean
Email:torres@spa.ucla.edu
Phone: (310) 206-1994
Research Expertise: Gerontology; the politics of aging; long-term care and services to the elderly; social policy; health care, Social Security and welfare reform; urban planning issues.