- Office of Academic Affairs and Faculty Development Center Award Competitive Grants, October 2018. Dr. Katharine Hill is a recipient of the Distinguished Early Career Grant, which she will use to conduct research in nonpartisan voter engagement
- St. Thomas’ Hill Awarded Fellow Support to Get Out the Vote, October 2018. The Campus Election Engagement Project (CEEP) selected School of Social Work associate professor Katharine Hill to receive funding to host a CEEP fellow this year to help encourage young people to get out and vote.
- St. Thomas Community Members Receive 2018 Campus Compact Awards,February 2018. BSW Program Director Katharine Hill is recognized for the President’s Civic Engagement Stewardship Award as a UST faculty member who has “significantly advanced their campus’ distinctive civic mission by forming strong partnerships, supporting others’ civic engagement and working to institutionalize a culture and practice of engagement"
Hill, K., Lane, S., Powers J., & Smith, T. (2018). From the Empire State to the North Star State: Implementing and evaluating voter engagement in the undergraduate classroom. Accepted for publication in the Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare.
Hill, K. & Lightfoot, E. (2018) In Trejos-Castillo, E. & Trevino-Schafer, N. (ed). Youth with disabilities in foster care. Handbook of Foster Care. London: Routledge/Taylor & Francis.
Semanchin-Jones, A., Kim, J.R., Hill, K., & Diebold, J. (2018) Voluntary Placements in Child Welfare: A Comparative Analysis of State Statutes. Children and Youth Services Review. 88 (May), 387-395. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2018.03.038
Hill, K. Abramovitz, M., Lewis, B., McClendon, G., Mizrahi, T., Okuda, K., & Smith, T. (2018, November). Voting is Social Work: The National Social Work Voter Mobilization Campaign (Hot Topic Presentation; Panel participant). 2018 Annual Program Meeting of the Council on Social Work Education. Orlando, Florida.
Donaldson, L., Hill, K., & Fogel, S. (2018, November). Working together: Micro and macro social workers for social justice. 2018 Annual Program Meeting of the Council on Social Work Education. Orlando, Florida.
Hill, K., Lane, S., Hubley, D., & Smith, T. (2018, June). Notes from the Field: Social Work’s Important Role in Voter Turnout (Roundtable). Policy Conference 2.0: The Next Twenty Years. St. Louis, Missouri.
Hill, K. (2018, June). Using specification grading to foster student engagement and empowerment in policy practice. Policy Conference 2.0: The Next Twenty Years. St. Louis, Mo.