Humanities, Arts + Social Sciences

Tyrone C. Hamler, a doctoral student in the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences’ PhD in Social Welfare program, was named a recipient of the Distinguished Alumni award from his alma mater, University of Cincinnati. Hamler will receive the honor from University of…

Dr. Adrianne M. Fletcher, assistant professor and assistant dean of diversity and inclusion, will be taking a leave of absence from Case Western Reserve University to assume a government role with the Supreme Court of Ohio. Effective May 1, she will become the court’s first director of diversity,…

Programs: JD, MSW Zora Raglow-DeFranco From an early age, Zora Raglow-DeFranco has wanted to help others—and she’s focused on doing so through social justice. She recalls attending protests with her father and learning about social services from her mother, the chief executive officer of a…

Alex Dorman, a doctoral student at the Mandel School and a research and policy analyst at The Center for Community Solutions, wrote a blog about the digital divide in Ohio. This story appeared in The Daily on April 15, 2022.

Chicago Crusader: Amy T. Khare, research assistant professor and research director at the National Initiative on Mixed-Income Communities, discussed her new study documenting more than a decade of investment in Chicago’s Woodlawn neighborhood by Preservation of Affordable Housing. Read the article

The Department of Sociology will host Beth Richie, distinguished professor of Black studies and head of the Department of Criminology, Law and Justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago, for a presentation Friday, April 8, from 10:30 a.m. to noon. The event will take place in room 115 of the…

The Marie Haug Award is presented annually to a graduate student who has shown exemplary performance in their gerontological studies. The award was established in 1990 to honor Dr. Haug’s pioneering work in aging at Case Western Reserve University, who co-founded the Frances Payne Bolton School of…

Kwame Botchway, MSSA/MNO '19, was recently featured on episode six of Global Cleveland's Landed: Stories of Newcomers podcast, "The Cleveland Optimist." Known as "The Cleveland Optimist," he was born in Ghana and calls Cleveland his "home in the U.S." He has written for the Huffington Post and…

March is National Social Work Month, a time to honor those in the profession who promote social change and development each and every day. This year’s theme is “The Time is Right,” which embodies how social workers rose to meet one of the most pressing challenges of our lifetimes, the COVID-19…

Devon Jones, MSW/MNO '22, is the new student organizer for the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Ohio Chapter. He is leading a project to raise awareness about the issue of unpaid field practicums. NASW Ohio writes: Social work students across the country entering the profession often…