Dr. Carol Minor Boyd

Chair, Social Work
Professor of Social Work
MSW Program Director
Ed.D., ACSW, LCSW

Curriculum Vita

Email:
Phone: +1-662-915-7389
Office: 208 Longstreet Hall

Areas of Interest

• School Social Work Services
• Social Work Accreditation
• Teen pregnancy

Dr. Susan Allen

Associate Professor of Social Work
Ph.D., LCSW

Curriculum Vita

Email:
Phone: +1-662-915-6711
Office: 213 Longstreet Hall

Areas of Interest

• Community development
• Social justice
• Teaching effectiveness and critical thinking

Dr. Pete Campbell

Assistant Professor of Social Work

Curriculum Vita

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

Susan Eftink

Associate Professor of Social Work

Curriculum Vita

Email:
Phone: +1-662-915-7391
Office: 201 Longstreet Hall

Areas of Interest

• Interest 1
• Interest 2
• Interest 3

Sherry Williams-Jenkins, MSW

Instructor of Social Work
LCSW (Louisiana)
LCSW (Mississippi)
BA – Southeastern La. University, 1982
MSW – Florida State University, 1984

Curriculum Vita

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

Dr. Debra Moore-Shannon

Associate Professor of Social Work
Field Education Director
ACSW, LCSW

Curriculum Vita

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

Dr. Kristi O'Dell

Associate Professor of Social Work

Curriculum Vita

Email:
Phone: +1-662-915-7374
Office: 215 Longstreet Hall

Areas of Interest

• Health Promotion
• Education Technology

Dr. Jo Ann O'Quin

Professor of Social Work

Curriculum Vita

Email:
Phone: +1-662-915-7199
Office: 204 Longstreet Hall

Areas of Interest

• Gerontology
• Alzheimer's and related diseases
• Caregiving
• Service-learning

Dr. Kim Shackelford

Associate Professor of Social Work
BSW Program Director

Curriculum Vita

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

Jill Shaw

Instructor of Social Work

Curriculum Vita

Email:
Phone: +1-662-915-7336
Office: Tupelo Center

Areas of Interest

• Interest 1
• Interest 2
• Interest 3

Dr. Jim Stafford

Associate Professor of Social Work

Curriculum Vita

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

Dr. Desiree Stepteau-Watson

Assistant Professor of Social Work

Curriculum Vita

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

Dr. Jerry Watson

Assistant Professor of Social Work

Curriculum Vita

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

Ms. Yvonne Newman

Senior Secretary

Email:
Phone: +1-662-915-7336
Office: Longstreet Hall