College of Education and Human Development

School of Social Work

Emeriti Faculty

Lisa Albrecht Lisa Albrecht

Lisa Albrecht, an activist educator and writer, is professor emeritus in the School of Social Work at the University of Minnesota, where she founded an undergraduate program in Social Justice.

Lisa Albrecht

Michael Baizerman Michael Baizerman

Michael Baizerman, PhD, is professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota School of Social Work.

Michael Baizerman

Jeffrey Edleson Jeffrey Edleson

Edleson is a professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota School of Social Work, served as its director of research. Edleson founded the Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse.

Jeffrey Edleson

Priscilla Gibson Priscilla Gibson

  • Professor Emeritus
    Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker
  • 612-624-3678
  • pgibson@umn.edu

Cultural Competence, Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Qualitative Research Methods, Social Justice

Jane Gilgun Jane Gilgun

  • Professor Emerita
    Principal Investigator, The Meanings of Violence to Perpetrators, funded by the Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station, 1985 to 2021, and other funders
  • 612-625-1220
  • jgilgun@umn.edu

Jane Gilgun is a professor emerita, School of Social Work, where she was a professor from 1984 to 2021.

Jane Gilgun

Wendy Haight Wendy Haight

  • Professor and Gamble-Skogmo Chair in Child Welfare and Youth Policy
  • 612-624-4721
  • whaight@umn.edu

Professor Haight completed her undergraduate degree in Psychology at Reed College, and her PhD at University of Chicago, where she studied developmental, cultural psychology.

Wendy Haight

C.David Hollister C.David Hollister

Study of immigrants, homelessness, and child welfare Study of impacts on immigrants of welfare-to-work transitions under the Minnesota Family Investment Program (MFIP) Ongoing follow-up studies of MSW child welfare graduates career experiences 1991 -…

C.David Hollister

Linda Jones Linda Jones

"The Kids Capacity Initiative Pilot Project." The purpose of this project is to develop, implement, and evaluate a strengths-based approach to treatment foster care.

Linda Jones

Elizabeth Lightfoot Elizabeth Lightfoot

Elizabeth Lightfoot is Distinguished Global Professor Emeritus at the University of Minnesota’s School of Social Work. She was on faculty at the University of Minnesota from 1999 to 2021, and was the doctoral program director from 2006 to 2021.

Elizabeth Lightfoot

Jean Quam Jean Quam

Over the years my research has included work on serious and persistent mentally ill older adults, including founding two group homes for this population with other faculty at the School of Social Work.

Jean Quam

James Reinardy James Reinardy

Dr. Reinardy has been a faculty member at SSW-UMN since 1993 where he has served in administrative positions and well as teaching and research.

James Reinardy

Ronald Rooney Ronald Rooney

Professor Rooney's special areas of scholarship and research relate to work with reluctant and involuntary clients in a variety of settings including public child welfare.

Ronald Rooney

Mark Umbreit Mark Umbreit

Professor Umbreit is an internationally recognized practitioner and scholar with more than 40 years of experience as a mediator, peacemaker, trainer, teacher, and researcher.

Mark Umbreit

Oliver Williams Oliver Williams

Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR), Cultural Competence, Family Violence, Social Services, Specific Cultures (African American)

Oliver Williams