Faculty and Staff
The social work faculty at Ole Miss is quite diverse
in terms of educational background and work experience. Prior to joining
the faculty, the instructors worked in such areas as public welfare,
child welfare, mental health, gerontology, and marital and family counseling.
Chair
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Dr. Carol Minor Boyd |
Chair, Social Work
Professor of Social Work
MSW Program Director
Ed.D., ACSW, LCSW
Email:
Phone: +1-662-915-7389
Office: 208 Longstreet Hall
Areas of Interest
- School Social Work Services
- Social Work Accreditation
- Teen pregnancy
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Faculty
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Dr. Susan Allen |
Associate Professor of Social Work
Ph.D., LCSW
Email:
Phone: +1-662-915-6711
Office: 213 Longstreet Hall
Areas of Interest
- Community development
- Social justice
- Teaching effectiveness and critical thinking
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Dr. Pete Campbell |
Assistant Professor of Social Work
Email:
Phone: +1-662-915-7336
Office: Tupelo Center
Areas of Interest
- Family and Children Mental Health
- Social Work in Education
- Jungian Theory of Psychological Type Applied to Micro, Mezzo, and Macro Social Work Practice
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Susan Eftink |
Associate Professor of Social Work
Email:
Phone: +1-662-915-7391
Office: 201 Longstreet Hall
Areas of Interest
- Interest 1
- Interest 2
- Interest 3
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Sherry Williams-Jenkins, MSW |
Instructor of Social Work
LCSW (Louisiana)
LCSW (Mississippi)
BA – Southeastern La. University, 1982
MSW – Florida State University, 1984
Email:
Phone: +1-662-915-7336
Offices:
- Oxford – Longstreet, Room 101
- Tupelo Advanced Education Center- Room 337-A
- UM-Desoto Center - Room 339
Areas of Interest
- Generalist social work
- Social welfare policy
- Teaching through experiential learning
- Gerontology
- Chronic and severe mental illness
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Dr. Debra Moore-Shannon |
Associate Professor of Social Work
Field Education Director
ACSW, LCSW
Email:
Phone: +1-662-915-5736
Office: 203 Longstreet Hall
Areas of Interest
- Teen pregnancy prevention
- Assessing hope in adolescents
- Social Justice
- Women’s Issues
- At-risk adolescents
- HIV research
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Dr. Kristi O'Dell |
Associate Professor of Social Work
Email:
Phone: +1-662-915-7374
Office: 215 Longstreet Hall
Areas of Interest
- Health Promotion
- Education Technology
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Dr. Jo Ann O'Quin |
Professor of Social Work
Email:
Phone: +1-662-915-7199
Office: 204 Longstreet Hall
Areas of Interest
- Gerontology
- Alzheimer's and related diseases
- Caregiving
- Service-learning
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Dr. Kim Shackelford |
Associate Professor of Social Work
BSW Program Director
Email:
Phone: +1-662-915-1563
Office: 214 Longstreet Hall
Areas of Interest
- Child Welfare
- Traumatic Stress
- Clinical Supervision
- Working with Soldiers, Veterans and their families
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Jill Shaw |
Instructor of Social Work
Email:
Phone: +1-662-915-7336
Office: Tupelo Center
Areas of Interest
- Interest 1
- Interest 2
- Interest 3
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Dr. Jim Stafford |
Associate Professor of Social Work
Email: swjames@olemiss.edu
Phone: +1-662-915-7900
Office: 303 Longstreet Hall
Areas of Interest
- The Impact of social work students’ and practitioners’ religious faith on practice and policy decisions
- The relationship between animal abuse and child abuse/domestic violence, as well as other aspects of veterinary social work
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Dr. Desiree Stepteau-Watson |
Assistant Professor of Social Work
Email:
Phone: +1-662-915-1344
Office: 205 Longstreet Hall
Areas of Interest
- Implications of social support for infant mortality reduction efforts
- Caregiving with African American elders
- Support for families of incarcerated individuals
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Dr. Jerry Watson |
Assistant Professor of Social Work
Email:
Phone: +1-662-915-7336
Office: Desoto Center
Areas of Interest
- University-community partnerships
- University civic engagement
- Community organizing
- Community development
- Juvenile delinquency
- Offender Re-entry
- African American Men and Higher Education
- African American Men’s Health and Social Welfare
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Staff
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Ms. Yvonne Newman |
Senior Secretary
Email:
Phone: +1-662-915-7336
Office: Longstreet Hall
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