Current PhD Students
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Jasmine Aaenson-FletcherResearch Interests: Email: u1529301@utah.edu |
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Abigail AndersonResearch Interests: LGBTQ youth level of functioning, self-harm, mood disorders, policies on national and state level that affect LGBTQ youth, macro influences. Email: u1213328@utah.edu |
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Courtney BushnellResearch Interests: Email: u1591607@utah.edu |
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Jamie CaminoResearch Interests: Email: u1591607@utah.edu |
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Morgan Cruz ErismanResearch Interests: Homelessness, housing, housing interventions, social justice issues, poverty and inequality, substance use, mental health, macro social work. Email: Morgan.Cruzerisman@utah.edu |
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Denae CookResearch Interests: Academic attainment barriers, bridging gaps in educational attainment, increasing educational outcomes in underprivileged communities, educational justice. Email: Denae.Cook@utah.edu |
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Finau Rabuka-ConklinResearch Interests: Trauma-informed approaches, integration, implementation, and impact in Early Head Start, Head Start, and Migrant Head Start systems. |
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Mariah CowellResearch Interests: Diversion and divestment from the criminal legal system, hyperincarceration, law enforcement use of force, community-based interventions to structural violence, macro social work education, anti-oppressive social work practice. Email: Mariah.Cowell@utah.edu |
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Megan FosterResearch Interests: Email: megan.foster@utah.edu |
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Myra GarciaResearch Interests: Mental health implications of racial trauma, intragroup discrimination, acculturation gap among communities of color. Email: Myra.Garcia@utah.edu |
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Sarah Elizabeth Garza-LevittResearch Interests: Health and Health Disparities, College Student Basic Needs Insecurity,
Trauma-Informed Systems, Grief and Loss, Integrative Health, Implementation Science. |
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Hailey JohnsonResearch Interests: Email: u1587770@utah.edu |
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Rachel JohnsonResearch Interests: Email: u1130223@utah.edu |
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Amy KenneyResearch Interests: Substance use, addiction, and mental health in individuals and families. Prevention, treatment, and recovery at micro, mezzo, and macro level. Email: Amy.Kenney@utah.edu |
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Rosa KimResearch Interests: Mental health issues among immigrant and refugee populations. Acculturation. Social Network Analysis. Email: Rosa.Kim@utah.edu |
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Caitlin LauResearch Interests: Child welfare system; youth perspectives; family perspectives; mental health outcomes; intervention access. Email: Caitlin.Lau@utah.edu |
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Malissa MorrellResearch Interests: Mental health interventions and outcomes, Art therapy, Trauma treatment, including PTSD and subthreshold PTSD, Non-manualized treatments, Treatment-resistant mental health issues. Email: u0595439@utah.edu |
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Mackaully ParadaResearch Interests: Social work in healthcare, social determinants of health, pediatric oncology and chronic illness, religion and spirituality. Email: Mackaully Parada |
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Kara PatinResearch Interests: Trauma, macro level implementataion of trauma-informed practices, policy and practice, social justice. Email: Kara.Patin@utah.edu |
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William RussellResearch Interests: Veterans and veteran mental health and transitional issues, military mental health issues. Email: william.russell@utah.edu |
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Cyrus Mace WarrenResearch Interests: Email: u0126061@utah.edu |
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Bobby YounceResearch Interests: Intimate partner violence (IPV), violence prevention, intimate parter violences in the LGBTQ+ community. Email: Bobby.Younce@utah.edu |





















