Doctoral Program Faculty

Dr. Sharon Bowland || Dr. Gerard Barber

Dr. Wanda Lott Collins || Dr. Anna Faul

Dr. Tom Lawson

Dr. Bibhuti K. Sar ||Dr. Riaan van Zyl

• Professor of Social Work
• Education:  Ph.D. Brandeis University

•  Research interests:  Health and aging policy, Program design and evolution, Needs assessment, Training assessment

Anna Faul, PhD Email Dr. Faul

• Associate Dean for Academic Affairs

• Education:  Ph.D. from Rand Afrikaans University, South Africa, with specialization in scale development and scale validation in social work.

•  Research interests include scale development within a multicultural context, program and training evaluations, organizational climate studies, welfare policy analysis and ADD children.

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Thomas R. Lawson, PhD tEmail Dr. Lawson

• Professor of Social Work

• Education:  PhD, University of Washington, Seattle

• Research interests: International Social Work and Social Policy, Delivery of social work and health care in the global community, Application of statistics to social work research

Wanda Lott Collins, PhD Email Dr. Collins

• Associate Professor of Social Work
• Education:  Ph.D. at University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
• Research interests include: Spirituality and Social Work, The African American church and family supports, psychosocial aspects of Alzheimer's and care-giving issues.

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Riaan van Zyl, PhD Email Dr. van Zyl

• Associate Dean, Research

•  Education: Ph.D. - University of Natal 

• Research Interests:  Evaluation in social work and of adult learners, development of assessment measures and protocols, assessment of prisoners, program evaluation, and social policy in developing countries.

Bibhuti K. Sar, PhD Email Dr. Sar

• Director, Doctoral Program

• Education: Ph.D. in Social Work and Public Policy, Virginia Commonwealth University

• Research interests: adoption/special needs adoption, family development, family violence, evaluating service delivery systems and programs, cultural impact on practice research

 Sharon Bowland,  PhD  Email Dr. Bowland

•  Assistant Professor
•  Education:   Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis
• Research interests include Violence against women, spirituality/religion and mental health, mental health and aging, mental health interventions, and dissemination of research into practice