Mary Jane Taylor

mjtaylor@socwk.utah.edu

Phone: 801-581-8828

Curriculam Vitae

College of Social Work
395 South 1500 East
Room 108
Salt Lake City, UT 84112

Education

Ph.D.   University of Utah (Social Work)   1993
M.S.W.   University of Utah (Social Work)   1979
B.A.   University of the Pacific (Social Science)   1976
 
 

Areas of professional interest/teaching/research

. Public Assistance Policy: Welfare Reform
. Social Work Practice: Community and Administration
. Sampling and Survey Methods
. Research Methods

 

Classes Taught

  . SW 6301 Basic Research Methods
  . SW 7111: Quantitative Research Methods
  . SW 6002 Community Practice
  . SW 631 Social Work Administration
  . SW 658 Evaluative Research Methods
  . SW 730 Dynamics of Administration
  . SW 733 Planning Institutional and Organizational Change
  . SW 734 Administrative Groups and the Political Process
  . SW 665 Social Work Practice: Introduction to Human Services Administration
  . SW 6002 Community Organization Practice: Strategies for Social Justice and Change
  . SW 6004 Social Work Practice in Organizations
  . SW 6402 Integrative Seminar
 
Click here to see the College of Social Work Course Catalog

 

Selected Publications

Refereed Journal Articles
 
. Taylor, M.J. & Stauss, K. (2006). Native American women who lead. Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social Work. 15 (1/2), 123-146.
 
. Taylor, M.J., Barusch, A.S., Vogel-Ferguson, M.B. (2006). Heterogeneity at the bottom: TANF closure and long-term welfare recipients. Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment. 13(2), 1-15.
 
. Taylor, M.J. & Barusch, A. S. (2004). Personal, family and multiple barriers of long-term welfare recipients. Social Work. 49(2), 175-184.
 
. Derr, M. & Taylor, M.J. (2003). The link between childhood and adult abuse among long-term welfare recipients. Children and Youth Services Review, 25(9), 747-760.
 
. Taylor, M.J.. (1999). Race and regional unemployment as predictors of exit from AFDC. Journal of Social Service Research, 25(2), 1-18.
 
. Taylor, M.J. (1996). Effects of a two-parent welfare program: Factors associated with time to employment. Research on Social Work Practice, 6(3), 277-291.
 
. Fraser, M., Taylor, M.J., Jackson, R., and O'Jack, J. (1991). Social work and science: Many ways of knowing? Social Work Research and Abstracts. 27(4), 5-15.
 
Other Journal Articles
 
. Taylor, M.J., Farley, O.W., and House, R. (1994). A comprehensive service approach to drug elimination in public housing. Journal of Housing. 51(1), 6-10.
 
Papers and Reports
 
. Marriage attitudes and behaviors of poor women in the United States (2008). The College of Social Work and Community Development, University of Otago.
 
. Taylor, M.J., Barusch, A.S.& Vogel, M.B. (2002). The dynamics of leaving welfare: A study of long-term welfare recipients in Utah. Social Research Institute, College of Social Work, University of Utah.
 
. Taylor, M.J., Barusch, A.S., & Vogel, M.B. (2000). Multiple impacts of welfare reform in Utah: Experiences of former long-term recipients. Social Research Institute, Graduate School of Social Work, University of Utah.
 
. Barusch, A.S., Taylor,M.J., & Abu Bader, S. (February, 1999). Final Report to the Utah Department of Workforce Services: Understanding families with multiple barriers to self-sufficiency.
 
. Barusch, A. & Taylor, M.J. (1998). Understanding families with multiple barriers to self-sufficiency -- Preliminary report to the Workforce Services Interim Committee. (Prepared for presentation to interim Utah legislature sub-committee, Salt Lake City, UT.)
 
. Taylor, M.J. (1995). Review of 27 State 1115 Waiver Program Evaluations. (Prepared for seminar of state welfare program evaluators, 35th Annual Conference of the National Association of Welfare Research and Statistics, Jackson, WY).
 
. Taylor, M.J., & Farley, O.W. (1992). Final Report: Housing Authority of Salt Lake County Drug Prevention Project. (Report to the Housing Authority of Salt Lake County.)
 
. Janzen, F. V., & Taylor, M.J. (1991). Participant Outcome Evaluation: An Independent Evaluation of Utah's Emergency Work Program. (Report to the Utah Department of Human Services.)
 
. Taylor, M.J. (1990). Utah's Emergency Work Program: Proposal for Waiver of Sanction for Nonperformance. (Working paper for Utah Department of Human Services.)
 
. Janzen, F.V. & Taylor, M.J. (1989). Emergency Welfare Work and Employment: An Independent Evaluation of Utah's Emergency Work Program: Fifth Year Executive Summary. (Report to the Utah Department of Human Services.)
 
. Janzen, F.V. & Taylor, M.J. (1988). Utah's Emergency Work Program: The Spouse Initiative. (Report to the Utah Department of Human Services.)
 
Editorial Boards
 
. Consulting Editor for Social Work Research
 
Book Reviews
 
. Mangum, G. et al., On being poor in Utah. Reviewed in 1997 for the University of Utah press.
 
. Hoefer, R. & Jordan, C., Program Evaluation: Integrating Research and Practice. Reviewed in 1998 for Peacock Press.
 
Grants and Evaluation Contracts
 
. Principal Investigator, 1999-2002, Understanding Families with Multiple Barriers to Self-Sufficiency. Utah Department of Workforce Services. (1997-2000 funding = $356,416.00; 2000-2002 funding = $535,348).
 
. Project Director, 1997-99. Understanding Families with Multiple Barriers to Self-Sufficiency Utah Department of Workforce Services.
 
. Project Coordinator, 1993-97. Evaluation of "Single Parent Employment Demonstration". Utah Department of Human Services.
 
. Project Coordinator, 1989-1993. Evaluation of "Work Emergency Program". Utah Department of Human Services.