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2023 DSW Banded Dissertation Defenses

About DSW Banded Dissertations

Join Cohort 7 of the Doctor of Social Work program as they present and defend their banded dissertations, a culmination of three products created while enrolled in the DSW program with the School of Social Work.

Please note that there is only one Zoom link for all presentations. Use the same link to attend a session at its noted time. Click the "Join Virtually" button to attend.

Please review best practices for attending a virtual banded dissertation defense. 

Contact

Hiyana Yang

DSW Program Manager
Email
hiyana@stthomas.edu

Week 1

  • 12:30 p.m.: Tiffany Pinckney, ND | Child Maltreatment Facilities: The Challenge for Social Work
  • 1:40 p.m.: Latisha Simmons, TN | Black Women and Mental Health: Overcoming Cultural Stigma and Redefining Strength
  • 2:50 p.m.: Mallori Sheik, MN | Navigating the Path to Independence: An Exploratory Study of Transitional Factors for Autistic Individuals
  • 12:30 p.m.: Dalila John, MI | Building the Beloved Community: Examining the Job Satisfaction and Retention of African American Social Work Faculty
  • 1:40 p.m.: Angela Baerwolf, WI | LGBTQ Youth Experiences of Home Confinement during the COVID-19 Pandemic
  • 2:50 p.m.: Dawn Diehl, PA | Retention of Bachelor Level Social Work Degree Holders

Week 2

  • 12:30 p.m.: Brittany Guisintanner, GA | Integrating a Responsive Trauma-Informed Pedagogy in Social Work Education: Events, Experience, and Effect
  • 1:40 p.m.: Jodi Whitted, OH | Social Work, Politics, and Power
  • 2:50 p.m.: Meg Dejong-Shier, TX | Small Towns, Texas-Sized Problem: Examining Poverty and Homelessness in the Panhandle of Texas
  • 12:30 p.m.: Allison Buzard, TN | Anti-Racism in Social Work Pedagogy: A Critique of our Past, A Study of our Present, and a Framework for our Future
  • 1:40 p.m.: Wonjen Bagley, TN | Making Space: Teaching Social Justice at Minority Serving Institutions
  • 2:50 p.m.: Kym Codallos, WY | Methods for Teaching Practice in Undergraduate Social Work Programs

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