The American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare (abbreviated AASWSW) is an
honor society of American scholars and practitioners in the field of
social work and social welfare. The academy was established in 2009, and its office is located at the
Washington University in St. Louis
Washington University in St. Louis (WashU or WUSTL) is a private research university with its main campus in St. Louis County, and Clayton, Missouri. Founded in 1853, the university is named after George Washington. Washington University is r ...
, though the organization itself is incorporated as a
501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization
A nonprofit organization (NPO) or non-profit organisation, also known as a non-business entity, not-for-profit organization, or nonprofit institution, is a legal entity organized and operated for a collective, public or social benefit, in co ...
in
Ohio
Ohio () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Of the fifty U.S. states, it is the 34th-largest by area, and with a population of nearly 11.8 million, is the seventh-most populous and tenth-most densely populated. The sta ...
. Its first major initiative is the
Grand Challenges for Social Work
The Grand Challenges for Social Work is an initiative originally spearheaded by the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare. The challenges are modeled after a similar undertaking led by the National Academy of Engineering. Edwina Ueha ...
Initiative, the purpose of which is, according to Barth et al. (2014), to "help transform social work science, education, and practice around visionary and achievable challenges."
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Fellows
* Mimi Abramovitz, DSW (inducted in 2015)
Amy Ai
PhD (inducted in 2021)
David L. Albright
PhD, (inducted in 2021)
Catherine Cubbin
PhD, (inducted in 2021)
Renee Cunningham-Williams
PhD (inducted in 2021)
Elizabeth M.Z. Farmer
(inducted in 2021)
Colleen Galambos
PhD (inducted in 2021)
Barbara L. Jones
PhD (inducted in 2021)
Charles E. Lewis, Jr.
PhD (inducted in 2021)
Michael A. Lindsey
PhD, MSW, MPH (inducted in 2021)
Kurt Organista
PhD (inducted in 2021)
Deborah K. Padgett
PhD (inducted in 2011)
Kristen Slack
PhD (inducted in 2021)
Dexter Voisin
PhD (inducted in 2021)Jerome Wakefield
Jerome C. Wakefield is a professor of social work in the Silver School of Social Work at New York University. Much of his work is in the history and philosophy of psychiatry. He is noted for his "harmful dysfunction" analysis of mental illness, ...
, PhD (inducted in 2020)
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Social work organizations in the United States
Organizations established in 2009
Honor societies