GWB honors five distinguished faculty members; Recognition ceremony lauds
chair-holders
By Ann Nicholson
November 9, 2001
Dean Shanti K. Khinduka, Ph.D. (center), the George
Warren Brown Distinguished University Professor, celebrates with five social
work faculty members who hold chaired professorships after a recognition
ceremony in their honor Nov. 6 in Brown Hall. From left are Enola K. Proctor,
Ph.D., the Frank J. Bruno Professor of Social Work Research; James Herbert
Williams, Ph.D., the E. Desmond Lee Professor of Racial and Ethnic Diversity;
Martha N. Ozawa, Ph.D., the Bettie Bofinger Brown Professor of Social Policy;
Khinduka; Michael Sherraden, Ph.D., the Benjamin E. Youngdahl Professor
of Social Development; and Arlene Rubin Stiffman, Ph.D., the Barbara A.
Bailey Professor of Social Work. |
The George Warren Brown School of Social Work (GWB) honored five distinguished
faculty members who hold chaired professorships at a recognition ceremony Nov.
6 in Brown Lounge in Brown Hall.
In addition to the school's newest chair-holder, James Herbert Williams, Ph.D.,
the E. Desmond Lee Professor of Racial and Ethnic Diversity, the school paid
tribute to three faculty members who are long-standing chair-holders and to
Arlene Rubin Stiffman, Ph.D., who was named the Barbara A. Bailey Professor
of Social Work in July.
The other distinguished chair-holders are Martha N. Ozawa, Ph.D., the Bettie
Bofinger Brown Professor of Social Policy; Enola K. Proctor, Ph.D., the Frank
J. Bruno Professor of Social Work Research, director of the Center for Mental
Health Services Research and associate dean for research; and Michael Sherraden,
Ph.D., the Benjamin E. Youngdahl Professor of Social Development and director
of the school's Center for Social Development (CSD).
"This recognition ceremony is a wonderful opportunity to pay tribute to the
outstanding work of five of our most distinguished faculty members," said Shanti
K. Khinduka, Ph.D., dean of the social work school and the George Warren Brown
Distinguished University Professor. "We are truly proud of their exemplary careers,
teaching and scholarship, including the contributions they have made to GWB,
the University, the St. Louis community and the profession of social work in
general."
Ozawa's chair is named in honor of Brown, who provided the funding to build
Brown Hall, which was named in honor of her husband, George Warren Brown. Proctor's
professorship recognizes Bruno, the first director of the Department of Social
Work at the University; Sherraden's professorship pays tribute to Youngdahl,
GWB's first dean; and Stiffman's professorship recognizes the gener-osity of
Bailey, a GWB alumna.
Ozawa, who was born in Ashikaga, Japan, has spent three decades studying America's
public assistance network, including research on Social Security, Medicaid,
welfare and other social welfare programs for all age groups of Americans. She
has published her work in leading academic journals and has written three books
on social issues in the United States and Japan. Ozawa, who joined the GWB faculty
in 1976, also served as a member of the Board of Editors for the 17th and 19th
volumes of the "Encyclopedia of Social Work."
She previously was on the faculty at Portland State University for seven years,
three of which were spent researching Social Security at the Center for Studies
in Income Maintenance Policy at New York University. The Rockefeller Foundation
and the Rockefeller Brothers' Foundation funded her groundbreaking work.
Ozawa earned a bachelor's degree in economics at Aoyama Gakuin University
in Tokyo, and a master's degree in social work and a doctorate in social welfare,
both from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Proctor directs the doctoral training program in mental health services research,
which, along with the Center for Mental Health Services Research, is funded
by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). In addition to her other
NIMH-funded research, she has received grants from the Agency for Health Care
Policy and Research, the American Association of Retired Persons Andrus Foundation,
and the American Heart Association.
Her current work addresses methods to enhance evidence-based care in social
work and mental health, and to further the development of practice guidelines
for social work.
Editor in chief of the journal "Social Work Research," Proctor has served
as president of the Group for the Advancement of Doctoral Education in Social
Work, and currently chairs the Scientific Advisory Committee for the Institute
for the Advancement of Social Work Research. She has delivered invitational
and keynote speeches for research conferences and has frequently served as a
grant reviewer for National Institutes of Health committees.
Proctor earned a bachelor's degree from Butler University in Indianapolis,
a master of social work degree from the University of Texas at Arlington and
a doctorate in social work from Washington University.
Sherraden has developed a reputation as a visionary scholar in reshaping how
America addresses domestic policy, particularly for low-income residents.
His 1991 book "Assets and the Poor: A New American Welfare Policy" proposed
government-assisted savings accounts for the poor, known as Individual Development
Accounts (IDAs). His program calls for the government and private sector to
match the poor's individual contributions to IDAs, as a means of encouraging
savings and breaking the cycle of poverty. In 1998, Congress passed legislation,
which Sherraden helped draft, establishing a five-year, $125 million IDA Demonstration
Project.
CSD is conducting comprehensive research on IDAs in pilot programs at 14 locations
across the nation. Eleven private found-ations, including the Ford Found-ation,
are funding the project, which runs from 1997-2007.
Additionally, Sherraden has advised governments in the United Kingdom, Canada,
Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore on progressive savings policy. He also recently
initiated the Global Service Institute at Washington University, designed to
promote research and develop a global information network on civic service.
Sherraden earned a bachelor's degree from Harvard University, and both a master's
degree and doctorate in social work from the University of Michigan.
Stiffman directs the Comorbity and Addictions Center, which is the first social
work research center funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).
The center supports groundbreaking research on addictions interventions for
underserved populations.
She is one of the few social workers ever to receive the prestigious Research
Scientist Career Award from the NIMH. Her NIDA- and NIMH-funded research includes
studies on the services used by high-risk adolescents in St. Louis and American
Indian youths in Phoenix.
Throughout her career, her research has focused on the service needs of children
and adolescents, associated risk or protective factors, and mental-health service
use in nonspecialty service sectors. Her work has been published widely in leading
academic journals, and she is the co-editor of seven books.
Stiffman earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Cincinnati, and
both a master's degree and doctorate in social work from Washington University
