Faculty

Troy Andersen
Professor/Lecturer

(801) 587-5354
troy.andersen@hsc.utah.edu

Research/Teaching Interests:
Alzheimer’s Disease, Progressive Neurologic Disease, Aging, Health, Rural Health Care

Sumiko Anderson
Assistant Professor/Clinical

(801) 581-4259
sumiko.anderson@utah.edu

Research/Teaching Interests:
Homelessness, Health and Wellness, Best Practices in Field Education, and Self-care

Tiffany Baffour
Associate Professor

(801) 581-7585
tiffany.baffour@utah.edu

Research/Teaching Interests:
Community-based Participatory Research, Health Care Delivery, Violence Prevention, Evidence-based Mental Health, Professional Development in Social Work

Stephanie Bank
Associate Professor/Lecturer; BSW Director

(801) 585-3311
stephanie.bank@utah.edu

Research/Teaching Interests:
Trauma, Anxiety, Depression, Loss, Grief, Parenting, Family/Relationship Issues, Health and Wellness

Joanna Bettmann Schaefer
Professor

(801) 587-7600
joanna.schaefer@socwk.utah.edu

Research/Teaching Interests:
Attachment, Treatment Outcomes, Wilderness Therapy, Residential Treatment

Emily Bleyl
Associate Professor/Clinical; Director, MSW Field Education

(801) 585-9017
emily.bleyl@utah.edu

Research/Teaching Interests:
Ethics in Social Work Practice, Child and Adolescent Well-Being and Social Policy, Professional Social Work Socialization and Identity

Julia Burns
Assistant Professor/Lecturer

julia.burns@utah.edu 

Research/Teaching Interests:
Human Behavior in the Social Environment, Social Work Groups, Social Work Practice, and Advanced Clinical Practice

Christopher Cambron
Associate Professor

(801) 581-8691
chris.cambron@utah.edu

Research/Teaching Interests:
Health Disparities, Substance Abuse/Addiction, Cancer Prevention, Quantitative Research, Ecological Momentary Assessment

Regina Campbell
Assistant Professor/Clinical; Director, Neighbors Helping Neighbors

(801) 585-9156
regina.campbell@socwk.utah.edu

Research/Teaching Interests:
Social Work with older adults; Aging in place; Aging and Mental Health; Community-Based Care; Cultural Competence in Aging; Geriatric Case Management; Elder Advocacy; Intergenerational Engagement; Aging Policy and Services

Sarah Canham
Professor; Associate Director, Interprofessional Education Program

(801) 581-8738
sarah.canham@utah.edu

Research/Teaching Interests:
Social Determinants of Health; Health and Social Services; Environments and Aging; Homelessness; Substance Use and Dependence; Mental Health; Qualitative Research Methods; Community-based Participatory Research; Life Course Perspective; Social Construction of Knowledge; Culture of Medicine; Knowledge Translation

Jason Castillo
Professor; Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs

(801) 585-9592
jason.castillo@socwk.utah.edu

Research/Teaching Interests:
Disadvantaged Children and Families with an Emphasis on Fathers, Social Work Education, Substance Use Disorder Counselor Education and Training, Social Welfare Policy, Macro Social Work Practice

Carson De Fries
Assistant Professor

carson.defries@utah.edu

Research/Teaching Interests:
Gerontology, Intergenerational Relationships, Social Isolation and Loneliness, Minority Aging Issues,
and End-of-Life Care

Katherine Drechsler
Assistant Professor/Lecturer

kathy.drechsler@utah.edu

Research/Teaching Interests:
Field education, evidence-based practice in social work education, teaching pedagogy of diversity in social work education, substance use disorder practice, self-care in social work practice, social work practice courses, substance use courses, policy, and field education

Caren J. Frost
Research Professor; U Associate Vice President for Research Integrity & Compliance; Associate Dean for Research

(801) 581-5287
caren.frost@socwk.utah.edu

Research/Teaching Interests:
Women’s Health, Global Health, Breast Cancer, Research Ethics

Jennifer Gervais
Associate Professor/Lecturer

jennifer.gervais@utah.edu

Research/Teaching Interests:
Competency-based Education, Social Emotional Learning, Best Practices in Field Education, Child and Adolescent Mental Health

Lindsay Gezinski
Associate Professor

(801) 581-7585
lindsay.gezinski@utah.edu

Research/Teaching Interests:
Gender-based Violence, Human Trafficking, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, Social Policy, Global Social Work

Ellie Goldberg
Assistant Professor/Clinical

(801) 581-4351
ellie.goldberg@utah.edu

Research/Teaching Interests:
Trauma and Healing, Sexual and Relationship Violence, College Student Wellness, Program Development and Administration

Tonie Michelle Hanáázbaa'
Director, BSW Field Education | MSW Advanced Standing Field Education; Practicum Professor; Assistant Professor/Clinical

(801) 581-4309
tonie-michelle.hanaazbaa@utah.edu

Research/Teaching Interests:
Social Justice, Indigenous Education, Substance Use Disorders, (Dis)Ability

Bacall Hincks
Associate Professor (Clinical)

 bacall.hincks@utah.edu 

Research/Teaching Interests:
Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Parenting, Child Welfare, Kinship, Human Trafficking, Social Policy, Program Development and Adminstration, Macro Social Work

Jeremiah Jaggers
Associate Professor; Director, PhD Program

(801) 581-7644
jeremiah.jaggers@utah.edu

Research/Teaching Interests:
Intersection of Multi-system Youth, Mental Illness, and Mental Health Services; Long Term Effects of Child Maltreatment; Family Dynamics and Juvenile Justice System Involvement; Latent Variable Modeling; Analysis of Big Data; Research and Evaluation; Statistics; Psychopathology; Child Welfare; Social Welfare Policy

Leroy Curtis Johnson
Assistant Professor/Clinical

(801) 581-8560
l.curtis.johnson@utah.edu

Research Interests:
Disproportionate Minority Contact, Disproportionality in Child Welfare, Child Protection Services-Safety Organized Practice, Racial Discrimination in the Criminal Justice System

Josh Kivlovitz
Assistant Professor/Lecturer

josh.kivlovitz@utah.edu 

Research Interests:
Behavioral and Mindfulness-based Interventions, Suicidality and Non-Suicidal Self-Injury, Complex and Single Episode Trauma, Community Organizing and Advocacy

Danielle Littman
Assistant Professor

danielle.littman@utah.edu 

Research/Teaching Interests:
Wellbeing of Youth Experiencing Homelessness & Intersecting Marginalization; Third Places (Community Settings); Permanent Supportive Housing; Mutual Aid & Peer Support; Place-based Work; Qualitative, Participatory, & Arts-based Research Methods

Alysse Loomis
Associate Professor; Interim Director, MSW Program

(801) 581-8679
alysse.loomis@utah.edu

Research/Teaching Interests:
Early Childhood Trauma; Child Maltreatment Prevention; Early Care and Education, Attachment; Trauma-informed Care; Social Work Practice

Brad Lundahl
Associate Professor

(801) 581-4570
brad.lundahl@socwk.utah.edu

Research/Teaching Interests:
Motivational Interviewing, Meta-analyses, Parent Training

Erika Marks
Research Assistant Professor

(801) 581-5217
erika.marks@utah.edu

Research/Teaching Interests:
Child Welfare Workforce Development 

Chad McDonald
Research Associate Professor; Director, Social Research Institute

(801) 581-6155
chad.mcdonald@utah.edu

Research/Teaching Interests:
Trauma-Informed Systems in Child Welfare, Cross-section of Supervisory Support, Transfer of Learning, and Implementation Science Drivers, Child Welfare Training Curricula, Evidence-based Practice in Child Welfare, Professional and Organizational Competence of Child Welfare Agencies

Misty McIntyre Goodsell
Research Assistant Professor

(801) 581-8830
misty.mcintyre@utah.edu 

Research/Teaching Interests:
Women's Health; Substance Use; Environmental Justice; Technology

Meeyoung Min
Associate Professor; Belle S. Spafford Endowed Chair

(801) 581-8796
meeyoung.min@utah.edu

Research/Teaching Interests:
Prenatal Drug Exposure; Trauma; Maternal Mental Health; Child Development; Adolescence Substance Use

Robert C. (R.C.) Morris
Assistant Professor/Clinical

rob.morris@utah.edu

Research/Teaching Interests:
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Criminology and Juvenile Justice, Developmental Social Psychology, Existential Psychotherapy, Mindfulness/Meditation, Quantitative Statistical Methods

Dena Ned
Professor/Lecturer

(801) 581-8902
dena.ned@socwk.utah.edu

Research/Teaching Interests:
American Indian/Tribal Nations/Indigenous Issues and Policy (Indian Child Welfare; Indian Health Care; Intergenerational and Historical Trauma; Urban Indian Systems of Care; Research Regulation in Indian Country; Sovereignty of Native Nations in Higher Education [Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Methodologies, American Indian Student Success]); Macro Social Work and Policy Practice; Generalist Practice; Public Service

Allison O'Connor
Associate Professor/Lecturer

(801) 581-3641
allison.oconnor@socwk.utah.edu

Research/Teaching Interests:
Child welfare, Animal-Assisted Mental Health Intervention, Bayesian Modeling, Program Evaluation, Evidence-Informed Practice/Practice-Informed Evidence

Julia O'Connor
Assistant Professor

julia.oconnor@utah.edu

Research/Teaching Interests:
Domestic/dating and sexual violence; violence prevention;  bystander interventions; men and masculinities; sexual and reproductive health and rights; evaluation research

Philip Osteen
Professor; Dean; Chief Behavioral Health Officer for Academic Affairs

(801) 581-8861
philip.osteen@utah.edu

Research/Teaching Interests:
Suicide Intervention and Prevention, Mental Health, Psychometrics, Advanced Statistical Analyses

Lindsey Palmer
Assistant Professor

lindsey.n.palmer@utah.edu 

Research/Teaching Interests:
The Child Welfare System; Child Maltreatment Prevention; Intersection of Neglect and Poverty; Mental Illness and Service Utilization  

Patrick Panos
Associate Professor

(801) 581-8914
patrick.panos@socwk.utah.edu

Research/Teaching Interests:
Distance Learning, International Social Work, Participatory Community-Based Research, Refugee Trauma, Cross-Cultural Mental Health

Kort Prince
Research Associate Professor

(801) 587-9947
kort.prince@socwk.utah.edu

Research/Teaching Interests:
Criminal and Juvenile Justice; Longitudinal and Multilevel Models, Generalized Linear Models, Generalized Additive Models, Survival Analysis, Experimental Methodology

Ariel Richer
Assistant Professor

ariel.richer@utah.edu 

Research/Teaching Interests:
Decolonial Thought; Community-based Research; Culturally Tailored Interventions; Black, Indigenous and Queer Communities; Substance Use; Intimate Partner Violence 

Yvette Romero Coronado
Associate Professor/Clinical

(801) 581-4711
yvette.romero@utah.edu

Research/Teaching Interests:
Trauma-Informed and Healing-Centered Engagement, Feminist Multicultural Therapy, Curanderismo/Traditional Medicine, Latinxs Epistemologies

Emily Salisbury
Associate Professor; Director, Utah Criminal Justice Center

(801) 581-4379
emily.salisbury@utah.edu

Research/Teaching Interests:
Criminological Behavior, Correctional Philosophy and Rehabilitation, Justice-Involved Women and Girls, Correctional Risk/Need/Strength Assessment, Gender- and Trauma-Responsive Policy and Practice

Cynthia Sanders
Associate Professor; Associate Dean for Academic Affairs

(801) 581-3199
cynthia.sanders@utah.edu

Research/Teaching Interests:
Social Welfare Policy, Asset Based Welfare, Financial Capability and Inclusion,  Financial Factors in Intimate Partner Violence, Digital Divide, Mixed Research Methods

Christian Sarver
Research Assistant Professor; Associate Director, Utah Criminal Justice Center

(801) 587-9437
christian.sarver@utah.edu

Research/Teaching Interests:
Correctional Rehabilitation and Programming, Reentry, Offender Pathways and Desistance, Behavioral Health and Criminal Justice, Qualitative Research Methods

Elizabeth Siantz
Assistant Professor

(801) 585-0975
e.siantz@utah.edu

Research/Teaching Interests:
Promotion of Health Equity for Persons with Mental Illness, Using Qualitative Methods, Social Network Analysis, and Mixed Methods to Study the Development and Implementation of Integrated Behavioral Health Care, Peer Mental Health Providers, and Trauma-informed Communities

Maria Skedros
Assistant Professor/Lecturer

maria.skedros@utah.edu

Research/Teaching Interests:
Sexual Trauma and Healing, Sexual Empowerment, utilizing Mindfulness-based skills and Feminist Multicultural Therapy.

Tamber Snarr-Beesley
Associate Professor/Clinical

(801) 581-8901
tamber.snarr@utah.edu

Research/Teaching Interests:
Grief and Loss Therapy, Children Therapy, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

Meghan Takahashi
Research Assistant Professor; Associate Director, Social Research Institute

(801) 585-0736
meghan.takahashi@utah.edu

Research/Teaching Interests:
Biostatistical methods, Child welfare, Disproportionality in Child Welfare, Machine learning, Program Evaluation, Suicide Intervention and Prevention, Qualitative Research Methods

Martell Teasley
Professor; U Associate Provost for Strategic Academic Initiatives

martell.teasley@utah.edu

Research/Teaching Interests:
African American Adolescent Development, Diversity in Cultural Competence, Black Studies, School Social Work Practice

Veronica Timbers
Assistant Professor/Lecturer

veronica.timbers@utah.edu 

Research/Teaching Interests:
Clinical Practice with LGBTQ+ Clients; Experiences of Rurally-located LGBTQ+ People; Advocacy and Policy for Trans and Gender Expansive People; Impact of Faith and Spirituality On LGBT+ Individuals; Innovations and Efficacy in Social Work Education; Human Behavior and Practice Theory; Clinical Mental Health Assessment and Treatment; Equity and Justice Topics for Practice

Laura Van Hook

Assistant Professor/Clinical

laura.vanhook@utah.edu 

Research/Teaching Interests:
Field Education, Women and Children's Health, Social Determinants of Health, Systems Theory, Crisis Intervention, Experiential Therapy, Neurodiversity, Social Work in Schools

Yitong Xin
Assistant Professor

yitong.xin@utah.edu 

Research/Teaching Interests:
Substance Use and Addiction; Mental and Behavioral Health; Trauma and Minority Stress; Resilience and Strengths-Based Methodologies; Harm Reduction Approaches; Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy; Mixed-Methods and Advanced Quantitative Research