Faculty and Staff

Staff

Larry E. Davis, PhD, director

Ralph Bangs, PhD, associate director

Michael Newman, administrative assistant

Megan Soltesz, finance and business manager, School of Social Work

Hide Yamatani, PhD, MBA, associate dean for research, School of Social Work

Solveig Spjeldnes, postdoctoral fellow

Faculty Associates

Betty Braxter, Nursing

Charlotte Brown, Psychiatry

Valire Carr-Copeland, Social Work

Willa Doswell, Nursing

Sara Goodkind, Social Work

Nancy Grote, Social Work

Ray Jones, Business

Gary Koeske, Social Work

Aaron Mann, Social Work

George McClomb, Social Work

Audrey Murrell, Business

Christian Newhill, Social Work

Helen Petracchi, Social Work

David Porter, Howard University and UCLA

Daniel Rosen, Social Work

Janet Schofield, Psychology and Learning Research and Development Center

Jeffery Shook, Social Work

Fengyan Tang, Social Work

Jerome Taylor, Africana Studies

Michael Vaughn, Social Work

John Wallace, Social Work

Research Assistants

Kyaien Conner, Social Work doctoral student

Monique Constance-Huggins, MPA, Social Work doctoral student

Latika Davis-Jones, Social Work doctoral student

So'Nia Gilkey, Social Work doctoral student

Jayashree Mohanty, Social Work doctoral student

Rajit Patel , Public and International Affairs graduate student

Kobie Pruitt, Business Administration bachelor’s degree student

Jervonne Singletary, Public and International Affairs graduate student

Lindsey Smith, Social Work doctoral student

Matthew Stepnick, Business Administration bachelor’s degree student

Jennifer Thornton, BA

Academic Advisory Committee

The center is guided by an Academic Advisory Committee with members drawn from across disciplines at the university and elsewhere.

Members from the University of Pittsburgh are:

Kathy Blee, committee chair, Sociology

Willa Doswell, Nursing

Sara Goodkind, Social Work

Audrey Murrell, Business

Edmund Ricci, Public Health

Janet Schofield, Psychology and Learning Research and Development Center

Richard Schulz, University Center for Social and Urban Research

Stephen Thomas, Public Health

John Wallace, Social Work

Lu-in Wang, Law

Hide Yamatani, Social Work

Committee members from outside the University of Pittsburgh are:

Alfred Blumstein, Carnegie Mellon University School of Public Policy and Management

Joe Feagin, Texas A&M University Department of Sociology

Patricia Gurin, University of Michigan Program on Intergroup Relations

James Jackson, University of Michigan Institute for Social Research

Ruth McRoy, University of Texas Center for Social Work Research

Michael Sherraden, Washington University School of Social Work

Robert Taylor, University of Michigan School of Social Work