Research Interests: 

• History of social work, social welfare, philanthropy, and public health
• Women's and gender studies
• Postcolonial contexts of social work practice
• Gay, lesbian, and queer populations
• Disability studies

Current Projects:

• History of faith-based social services
• The fresh-air movement in the U.S., 1849-present
  

Recent Publications:

"Building on the Romance of Women's Innate Strengths: Social Feminism and Its Influence at the Henry Street Settlement, 1893-1993." In K. J. Peterson & Alice Lieberman, eds. Building on Women's Strengths, 2nd ed, pp. 22-44. NY: Haworth, 2001.

"The Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, 1843-1939" in the forthcoming Encyclopedia of the History of Social Welfare. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2004.

"Scientific Philanthopy" in the forthcoming Encyclopedia of the History of Social Welfare. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2004.

Last updated December 03, 2007.