Janet L. Finn, Ph. D. School of Social Work The University of Montana Missoula, MT 59812-4392 406-243-5583 e-mail: janet.finn.umontana.edu
EDUCATION
Ph.D., University of Michigan, Anthropology and Social Work 1995 Master of Arts, Anthropology, University of Michigan 1992 Master of Social Work, Eastern Washington University 1982 B.A., Psychology, University of Montana 1978 Undergraduate Studies, Seattle University 1974-76
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Professor, School of Social Work, University of Montana (2005-present, Acting Chair, fall, 2007, spring, 2011): Instructor for MSW foundation and advanced practice, policy, and HBSE courses, BSW practice courses, and electives in social work, women and gender studies, and international development studies, including: Women and Social Action in the Americas, Gender and the Politics of Welfare, and Social Work in a Global Context. Teaching interests: gender in cultural context; social work theory; history of social welfare policy; integrative intervention with families, groups, and communities, international social work. Current research includes: gender and globalization; social work and rights of the child; theory and practice of social justice work; social justice on U.S. Mexico border; childhood, class, and ethnicity in Butte, Montana.
MSW Program Director, School of Social Work, University of Montana (2005 – 2010): Responsible for leadership and oversight of MSW program; curriculum development; admissions; student affairs, and program development responsible for direction and oversight of 2008 accreditation self study.
Associate Professor, Department of Social Work, University of Montana (2001-2005): Instructor for graduate and undergraduate courses in social work. Courses included, practice with individuals, families, groups, and communities, advanced integrated practice, MSW foundations of theory and practice; HBSE II – Difference, Diversity, Oppression, and electives in social work and Women and Gender Studies.
Assistant Professor, School of Social Work and Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan (1999-2001): Faculty liaison for Joint Doctoral Program in Social Work and Anthropology: Course taught: Cultural Perspectives on Adolescence; Encountering Social Work: Ethnographic Inquiry into Social Welfare Systems and Services; International Social Work Practice; Women and Community Organization; MSW field supervision; Comparative Study of Cultures. Member, Joint Doctoral Program Supervising Committee; Southwest Detroit community-based MSW initiative. Research: P.I., Silberman Fund Project: “Women Building Community: Lessons from the Andes to the Rockies, Co- P.I. Kellogg Global Program on Youth, “Young People as Competent Community Builders in the Americas.”
Associate Professor, Social Work, University of Montana, Missoula, MT (Assistant Professor, 1994-1998): Instructor for undergraduate social work classes in intervention with individuals, families, groups and communities, child welfare, and social work/women's studies courses on gender, welfare and social action.
Rackham and Malcomson Raphael Fellow
1 University of Michigan, 1993-94 Engaged in field research on the cultural construction of community and women's social participation in two copper mining towns: Butte, Montana and Chuquicamata, Chile.
Regent's Fellow University of Michigan, 1989-1992 Research Assistant for a Silberman Fund project, "Child Welfare in the 21st Century."
Research Assistant Center for the Study of Youth Policy, Ann Arbor, MI, 1991-1992 Researcher for the Community Based Youth Initiatives Project funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Co-author of publications on youth participation.
Assistant Professor, Social Work Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA, 1988 -1989 Instructor for introductory and advanced practice skills courses in MSW program. Field supervisor for graduate and undergraduate social work practicum placements. One-year appointment.
Adjunct Instructor, Social Work Carroll College, Helena, MT, 1986-1987 Instructor for undergraduate course, Social Work in Rural Areas.
Related Professional Experience:
Social Worker, The Casey Family Program, Helena, MT, 1985-1988 Social Work Supervisor, Montana Dept. of Family Services, Havre, Helena, MT, 1982-1985 School Social Worker (Intern). Wilber, Creston, and Reardon, WA School Districts, 1981-82 Social Work Teaching Assistant, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA, 1980-81 Counselor and Program Manager, Mountain View School, Helena, MT, 1978-80
COURSES TAUGHT 2011-2015
SW/WGS 323 Women and Social Action in the Americas SW/WGS 324 Gender and the Politics of Welfare SW 465 Social Work in a Global Context SW 505 Foundations of Integrated Practice SW 511 Difference, Diversity, and Oppression SW 530 History of Social Welfare, Justice, and Change SW 535 Advanced Integrated Practice SW 595 Human Rights and Social Justice on US-Mexico Border SW 576, 577, 578, 579 – Integrative Seminars for MSW students
PUBLICATIONS:
2 Books:
Gender Oppression and Globalization: Challenges for Social Work (2013) (co-edited with Tonya Perry and Sharvari Karandikar). Alexandria, VA: Council on Social Work Education Press.
Mining childhood: Growing up in Butte, Montana, 1900-1960 (2012) Helena: Montana Historical Society Press.
Childhood, Youth, and Social Work in Transformation (2009) (co-edited with Lynn Nybell and Jeffrey Shook), New York: Columbia University Press.
Just Practice: A Social Justice Approach to Social Work (2nd ed.) (2008) (co-edited with Maxine Jacobson). Peosta, IA: Eddie Bowers Publishing.
La Victoria: Rescatando su historia (2007). (Collaborative project with G. Rodríguez, C. Nuñez, N. Nuñez, J. M. González, and J. Lagos). Santiago: Universidad Arcis, Social Memory Series.
Motherlode: Legacies of Women’s Lives and Labors in Butte, Montana (2005). (co-edited with Ellen Crain) Livingston, MT: Clark City Press.
Just Practice: A Social Justice Approach to Social Work (2003) (with Maxine Jacobson). Peosta, IA: Eddie Bowers Publishing.
Tracing the Veins: Of Copper, Culture, and Community from Butte to Chuquicamata. (1998) Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
Articles:
“Social work and social justice on the US-Mexico border: From critical consciousness to collective action,” (with co-authors). Under review, International Social Work.
“Judging childhood” (2013). Children and Youth Services Review, 35: 1166-1173. In Place, Power and Possibility: Remaking social Work with Children and Youth (co-edited with Lynn Nybell and Jeffrey Shook. Children and Youth Services Review, 35.
“Children of the hill: Situating children in Butte's history.” (2012) Montana, Magazine of Western History 62: 23-46.
“Unsettling feminisms,” (2011) (with Sadye Logan). Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work.26: 345- 348.
“Social work in Montana and beyond: Reflections on a century of practice.” (2011) (with Ryan Tolleson Knee). Montana Professor 22(1):7-13.
“The meaning and making of childhood in the era of globalization.” (2010) (with Lynn Nybell and Jeffrey Shook). Children and Youth Services Review 32: 246-254.
“Social justice,” (with Maxine Jacobson) (2008). entry in Encyclopedia of Social Work. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
3 “Love and justice: Ovadia’s story,” (with Ovadia Vargas) (2007) Women’s Studies Quarterly 35 (3/4): 30-37.
“La Victoria: Claiming memory, history, and justice in a Santiago población.”(2005). Journal of Community Practice, 13(30): 9-32.
“La Victoria comprometida: Reflections on neoliberalism from a Santiago población”. Review of Economic Anthropology: Markets and Market Liberalization – Ethnographic Perspectives. (2005). Edited by Norbert Dannhauser and Cynthia Werner. Amsterdam: Elsevier Press, pp. 207-240.
“Women, community, and contestation,” (2005). Voices – Publication of the Association for Feminist Anthropology, 7(1): 4-5.
“Just practice: Steps toward a new social work paradigm.” (2003) (with Maxine Jacobson) Journal of Social Work Education, 39(1): 57-78.
“Raíces: Gender-conscious community building in Santiago, Chile,” (2002) Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work. 17(4): 450-472.
“Fuerza Unida,” (2002). Affilia, Journal of Women and Social Work, 17(4): 497-500.
“The Women of Villa Paula Jaraquemada: Building Community in Chile’s Transition to Democracy.” (2001). Community Development Journal 36(3): 183-197.
“Text and Turbulence: Representing Adolescence as Pathology in the Human Services,” (2001) Childhood, 8(2): 167-191, Special Issue, Capitalizing on Concern, Janet Finn and Lynn Nybell, editors.
“Our Lady of the Rockies: Capitalism and Cosmology on the Continental Divide,” (2000) Anthropology of Work Review, 21(4): 1-7.
“Working for Equality and Economic Liberation (WEEL) Advocacy and Education for and Beyond Welfare Reform.” (2000) (co-authored with Raquel Castellanos, Toni McOmber, and Kate Kahan) Affilia: The Journal of Women and Social Work, Summer 15(2): 294-310.
"The State, the Clock and the Struggle: Discipline and Resistance in Welfare Reform in Montana," (2000) (co-authored with Lyne Underwood). Social Text, 62 18(1):109-134.
"Walls and Bridges: Cultural Mediation and the Legacy of Ella Deloria," (2000) Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, 21(3): 158-182.
"Young People as Competent Community Builders: A Challenge to Social Work," (1998) (co-authored with Barry Checkoway) Social Work, 43(4): 335-345.
"Intimate Strangers: The Interlocking Histories of Butte, Montana and Chuquicamata, Chile," (1998) Montana: The Magazine of Western History, 48 (3): 22-39.
"A Penny for Your Thoughts: Stories of Women, Copper and Community," (1998) Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, 19 (2): 231-249.
"Contested Caring: Women's Roles in Foster Family Care," (1994) Affilia: The Journal of Women and
4 Social Work, 9(4):382-400.
"The Promise of Participatory Research," (1994) The Journal of Progressive Human Services, 5(2): 25- 42.
“Child Welfare Policies and Practices: Rethinking the History of our Certainties (Rosemary Sarri, first author). Children and Youth Services Review, 14: 219-236.
"Ella Cara Deloria and Mourning Dove: Writing for Cultures, Writing Against the Grain," (1993) Critique of Anthropology, 1993 13(4): 335-349.
"Policies, Images and Lives: Shaping Native American Women's Histories," (1991) Michigan Feminist Studies, 6, 119-144.
"Burnout in Human Services: A Feminist Perspective," (1990) Affilia: The Journal of Women and Social Work, 5(4), 55-71.
Book Chapters:
“Conceptualizing Gender Oppression, Globalization, and Implications for Social Work,” (2013) Chapter in Janet L. Finn, Tonya Evette Perry and Sharvari Karandikar (eds.). Gender Oppression and Globalization: challenges for Social Work. Alexandria, VA: CSWE Press.
“Globalization and Gender Oppression: Reflections on Teaching and Learning,” (2013). Co-authored with Kara Mileski. Chapter in Janet L. Finn, Tonya Evette Perry and Sharvari Karandikar (eds.). Gender Oppression and Globalization: challenges for Social Work. Alexandria, VA: CSWE Press.
“Love and Justice: A Silenced Language of Integrated Practice,” (2010) Chapter in William Borden (Ed.) Reshaping theory in contemporary social work: Toward a critical pluralism in contemporary practice. New York: Columbia University Press.
“Child’s eye view,” Chapter in L. Nybell, J. Shook, and J. Finn (Eds.) (2009) Childhood, Youth, and Social Work in Transformation. New York: Columbia University Press.
“Making trouble,” Chapter in L. Nybell, J. Shook, and J. Finn (Eds.) (2009) Childhood, Youth, and Social Work in Transformation. New York: Columbia University Press.
“Troubled in Paradise,” Chapter in R. Transit (Ed.) Disciplining the Child: How the Discourse of the Professions Constitute the Child. Springfield, IL: Charles, C. Thomas (2004).
“Popular Education and Participatory Research.” (co-authors Maxine Jacobson and Jillian Dean Campana).Chapter 19 in C. Garvin, M. Galinsky, and L. Gutierrez (Eds.). Group Work Handbook. New York: Guilford Publications, Inc. (2004).
“Mining Men: Chile Exploration and the Politics of Copper, Culture and Gender.” Chapter 7 in Dorothy Hodgson (Ed.) Gendered Modernities: Ethnographic Perspectives. New York: Palgrave, 2001, 205-234.
“Borders and Bridges: Building New Directions for the Women’s Movement,” Chapter 16 in Josefina Figueira-McDonough and Rosemary Sarri (Eds.) Women on the margins: Neglect, Violence and Resistance. New York: Haworth Press, 2002, 375-406.
5 “Anaconda: La Historia No Revelada,” chapter in Mineria y Medio Ambiente, ed. Juan Diego Cerda, Universidad de Huelva, Spain, 2001.
"Gender and Family," Chapter 6 in J. Figueira-McDonough, A. Nichols-Casebolt and E. Netting (Eds.) The Role of Gender in Practice Knowledge: Claiming Half the Human Experience. New York: Garland, 1998, 205-239.
“Ella Cara Deloria and Mourning Dove: Writing for Cultures, Writing Against the Grain,” (expanded version). in Ruth Behar and Deborah A. Gordon (Eds.) Women Writing Culture. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1995, 131-147.
Checkoway, B. Finn, J. and Pothukuchi, K. "Young People as Community Resources: New Forms of Participation," Chapter 10 in Paul Adams and Kristine Nelson (Eds.), Reinventing Human Services: Community- and Family-Centered Practice. New York: Aldine de Gruyter 1995, 189-202.
Checkoway, B., K. Pothukuchi, & J. Finn, "Youth Participation in Community Planning: What are the Benefits?" Journal of Planning Education and Research, 1994.
Sarri, R. & Finn, J. "Child Welfare Policy and Practice: Rethinking the History of our Certainties," Children and Youth Services Review, 14(3/4), 1992, 219-236.
Sarri, R. & Finn, J. (Editors) Children and Youth Services Review, Special Issue, 14(3/4), 1992.
Book Reviews
Global Social Transformation and Social Action: The Role of Social Workers. Edited by Sven Hessle. Ashgate Publishing, 2014. Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work. (forthcoming)j.
Welfare Reform and Persistent Rural Poverty by Kathleen Pickering, Mark, Harvey, Gene Summers, and David Mishinik, Penn State University Press, 2006. American Anthropologist, 2008.
Company Towns of the Pacific Northwest, by Linda Carlson. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2003, Montana Historical Society Press, 2004.
Anaconda: Labor, Community, and Culture in Montana’s Smelter City, by Laurie Mercier. Urbana: University of Chicago Press, 2001. Oregon Historical Quarterly, 2002 103(3), 396-398.
Marketing Democracy: Power and Social Movements in Post-Dictatorship Chile, by Julia Paley. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. American Anthropologist (in press).
Women and Power: Fighting Patriarchies and Poverty by Janet Townsend, Emma Zapata, Jo Rowlands, Pilar Alberti and Marta Mercado. London: Zed Books, 1999. Bulletin of Latin American Research 2001, 20(2): 275-76.
Contested Communities: Class, Gender and Politics in Chile’s El Teniente Copper Mine, 1904-1961, by Thomas Klubock. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1998. Comparative Studies in Society and History 43(4): 862-864.
6 Making Democracy Better: Mediating Structures, Social Capital, and the Democratic Prospect by Richard A. Couto with Catherine S. Guthrie, Social Service Review, 2001
Struggling with Development: The Politics of Hunger and Gender in the Philippines by Lynn M. Kwiatkowski, American Ethnologist, May 2000 27(2): 496-98.
Copper for America: The United States Copper Industry from Colonial Times to the 1990s by Charles K. Hyde, Harvard Business History Review, 73 (1), Spring 1999, 120-121.
Lesbians and Gays in Couples and Families: A Handbook for Therapists, in Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Human Services, 79 (6), 1999, 649-651.
Gay and Lesbian Mental Health: A Sourcebook for Practitioners, in Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Human Services, 79 (6), 1999, 652-653. Mining Cultures: Men, Women and Leisure in Butte, 1914-41. Mary Murphy (1997), Urbana: the University of Illinois Press. in Montana, The Magazine of Western History 48 (3) (Autumn, 1998): 75- 76.
Published Instructional Materials:
“Families in Social Work Knowledge and Practice” in Integrating Gender in the Social Work Core Curriculum: A Compendium of Model Syllabi complied by J. Figueira-McDonough, F. E. Netting, and A. Nichols-Casebolt. Alexandria, VA: Council on Social Work Education, 1999, pp. 33-44.
Monographs, Essays, and Organizational Reports:
Finn, J., Rodríguez, G., Lagos, J. Núñez, N. Núñez, C., Gonzalez, J. La Victoria: Rescatando su historia, book length community history prepared in collaboration with the La Victoria Neighborhood Organization, Santiago, Chile, 2005
Checkoway, B. & Finn, J. Young People as Community Builders, Ann Arbor: Center for the Study of Youth Policy, 1992.
Dissertation:
"Mining Community: The Cultural Politics of Copper, Class and Gender in Butte, Montana, USA and Chuquicamata, Chile," (Ph.D. diss., University of Michigan, 1995).
PRESENTATIONS:
“Reflections on the CRC, social justice, and the US-Mexico border,” Council on Social Work Education, Tampa, FL, October 26, 2014.
“Mining Childhood: Growing up in Butte, Montana, 1900-1960,” Presentation for Helena Big Read, Helena, Montana, October 8, 2014.
“Alma Higgins: Conservationist Extraordinaire,” Montana Historical Society Conference, Helena, Montana, September 20, 2014.
7 “Growing Up Irish in Butte, Montana.” Presentation at An Ri Ra Irish Festival, Butte, Montana, August 8, 2014.
“Understanding Childhood through Oral History” – Montana History Society, Teacher Education Workshop, June 17, 2014.
“Exploring Childhood in Western History,” American Historical Association-Pacific Coast Branch Conference, Denver, CO, August 9, 2013.
“Richest Hills,” NEH funded teachers’ education program, Butte, Montana, July, August, 2013.
“Growing up in Butte, Montana,” ALPS – Attorneys Professional Liability Services – Annual Meeting, July, 2013.
Featured Speaker: Fact & Fiction Annual Book Club Luncheon, February, 2013.
“Mining Childhood” presentation – Montana Historical Society, Jan & April, 2013.
“Mining Childhood” presentation – Butte Silver Bow Public Archives, Butte, MT, Dec., 2012
“Gender Oppression and Globalization: Critical Feminist Perspectives for Social Work Teaching, Research, and Practice,” Unsettling Feminisms. Chicago, May, 2011
“Integrating Feminist Thought and Practice Across the Social Work Curriculum,” Unsettling Feminisms, Chicago, May, 2011
“Children of the Hill: Childhood in Butte, 1900-1960.” National Folk Festival, Butte, Montana, July, 2010.
“Making Trouble: Representations of Social Work, Youth, and Pathology,” Shifting Boundaries of Childhood Seminar, The University of Michigan school of Social Work, Ann Arbor, MI, March, 2010. “Social Justice and the Helping Professions: Manifesting the Promise in Practice.” Keynote address, Conference on Social work and Social Justice, Barry University, Miami, Florida, March 2009.
“From Norming to Transforming: Competency or Critical Pedagogy?” Group facilitator for Think Tank session, CSWE APM, Philadelphia, October, 2008.
“Gender Oppression and Globalization: Critical pedagogy and practice,” paper presentation at CSWE Annual Program Meeting, Philadelphia, October, 2008.
“Gender Oppression and Globalization,” think tank facilitator, CSWE Annual Program Meeting, San Francisco, October, 2007.
“Just Practice: A Child’s Eye View,” paper presentation at CSWE Annual Program Meeting, Chicago, February, 2006.
“Pobladora, Poder y Posibilidad: Working-class women and the negotiation of needs, responsibilities and rights in Santiago, Chile,” Paper presented at 2005 Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Scripps College, Claremont, CA, June, 2005
“Working-class women and struggles for survival in Santiago, Chile,” Paper presented at the
8 Translocalities Conference, Canadian Association for Cultural Anthropology, Society for Anthropology of North America, and Autonomous University of Yucatan joint conference, Mérida, Mexico, May, 2005.
“Engendering Hope, Envisioning Possibility: A Journey into Social Justice Work,” Keynote Presentation. Globalization and Social Responsibility Conference, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN, Feb. 20 2004
“La Victoria Comprometida: Reflections on Neoliberalism from a Santiago Población,” American Anthropological Association APM, Chicago, November 20, 2003.
“Just Practice: Challenging Social Work Thought and Practice,” University of Montana Philosophy Forum, March 11, 2003.
“La Victoria: Reclaiming Memory, History, and Possibility,” University of Montana Philosophy Forum, September 17, 2002.
“Just Practice: Rethinking the Social Work Paradigm.” University of Chicago, School of Social Service Administration, Chicago, IL, May 22, 2002.
“Troubled Children and Troubling Youth: A Critical Look at the Construction of Problems and Interventions,” Invited Presenter, Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, Annual Conference on Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect, Missoula, MT, April, 2002.
“Just Practice: A Child’s Eye View,” Invited presenter, Regional NASW Conference, Missoula, MT, March 2002.
“Just Practice: Steps Toward a New Social Work Paradigm,” Council on Social Work Education, Annual Program meeting, Nashville, TN, February, 2002.
“Back-talking the State: Women, Community and Contestation in Chile,” American Ethnological Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada, May 2001.
“In the Eye of the Beholder: The Politics and Ethics of Welfare Reform Research,” presented by co- author Paul Miller, Pacific Sociological Association meetings, San Francisco, March 2001.
"For Love and Justice: Women, Community and Ethnographic Possibility," American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, November, 2000.
“Bridging Cultural Inquiry and Critical Practice: Ethnographic Journeys into Social Work” double- session panel organized for the American Anthropology Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, November 2000.
“Comparative Studies of the Americas: Possibilities and Cautions,” Invited roundtable presentation, Western History Association Conference, San Antonio, October, 2000.
“Building Relationships and Breaking Rules: Transgressive Possibilities for Social Work Research and Practice,” panel organizer and presenter, “Moving Beyond Rhetoric” Conference, University of Michigan, April, 2000.
“Our Lady of the Rockies: Capitalism and Cosmology on the Continental Divide,” American Ethnology Society Annual Meeting, Tampa, FL, March 2000.
9 Organizer of Speaker Series, “The Politics of Memory in Chile,” sponsored by the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program, February-March, 2000.
“Tracing the Veins: The Possibilities of Transnational Ethnography,” Invited Speaker, The University of Wyoming, February 2000.
Discussant, “Children, Youth and Disciplinary Practices in Late Capitalism,” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, November, 1999.
"Tracing the Veins: A Transnational Ethnography," University of California-Davis, Anthropology Colloquium Series, November 1998.
"Mining Community: Anaconda Copper from the Rockies to the Andes," Invited speaker for 6th Annual Labor History Forum, Butte Historical Society, Butte, Montana, June 11, 1998.
"Tracing the Veins of Capitalism and Community," Invited speaker for "Movements, Movimientos, Movimentos: Reshaping the Americas" conference, sponsored by the University of California Humanities Institute, UC-Irvine, May 28-29, 1998.
"Mining Men: Chile Exploration Company and the Politics of Culture, Class and Gender, 1921-1971," Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies Conference, Missoula, MT, April 23-25, 1998.
"Capitalizing on Concern: The Expanding Market in Troubled Children and Troubling Youth." Panel Organizer, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., November 19-23, 1997
"Text and Turbulence: Representing Adolescence as Pathology in the Human Services," American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. November 22, 1997.
"Text, Lies, and Audiotape: Ethnography and the Politics of Intimacy," University of Montana Philosophy Forum, November 18, 1997.
"Tracing the Veins of Copper, Culture, and Community." Panel Presentation, Western History Association conference, St. Paul, MN, October 16, 1997.
"Genero, Familia y Cambio Social," Workshop presented in conjunction with the Department of Social Work, University of Concepcion, Chile, June 6-7, 1997.
"Walls and Bridges: Cultural Mediation and the Legacy of Ella Deloria," Society of Feminist Anthropology Panel Presentation, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, November 21, 1996.
"A Penny for Your Thoughts: Stories of Women, Copper and Community in Two Anaconda Company Mining Towns," Invited panel presentation, 23rd Annual Montana History Conference, Butte, Montana, October 18, 1996.
"La Historia no Revelada de Anaconda: Las Perspectivas Femeninas," guest lecture for Women's Studies Program, Universidad de Concepcion, Concepcion, Chile, August 7, 1996.
"Out of the Shadows: Documenting Women's Struggles, Developing Women's Knowledge," Organizer/Facilitator for Slide and Lecture Series sponsored by The University of Montana Visiting
10 Scholars Program and Montana Committee for the Humanities, Missoula, May 5-10, 1996.
“Our Lady of the Rockies: Capitalism and Cosmology on the East Ridge,” UM Mansfield Center Faculty Seminar Series, April, 1996.
“Women, Labor and Community in Butte, Montana,” Panel Speaker, UM Women’s History Month, March, 1996.
"Steps Toward a New Social Work Paradigm," Guest Lecture, Eastern Washington University School of Social Work, Cheney, WA, January 16, 1996
"Agency as Artesania," Invited panel session, American Anthropological Association, Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., November, 1995
"Women, Copper and Community in Butte, Montana and Chuquicamata, Chile," International Social Welfare and Social Development Conference, Calgary, July, 1995
‘Mujeres, Cobre y Comunidad: Artesansa de lo Cotidiano,” Community Development Workshop, Centro El Canelo de Nos, Santiago, Chile, July 1995.
“Genero, Comunidad y Organizacion: Teoria y Practica,” Guest lecture, Social Work Department, Universidad ARCIS, Santiago, Chile, July 1995.
“Crafting the Everyday: Women, History and Social Action,” Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, Missoula, MT, February 1995 and Butte Historical Society, March 1995.
"Las Huellas de Anaconda: La Politica Cultural del Cobre en Butte, Montana, EE.UU. y Chuquicamata, Chile," Universidad Metropolitana, Instituto de Ciencias Politicas, Universidad de Chile, Academia Diplomatica, Santiago, Chile, September, October, 1993
"A Tale of Two Cities: The Cultural Politics of Copper in Butte, Montana, USA and Chuquicamata, Chile," Butte Historical Society, February, 1994
"Writing for Cultures, Writing Against the Grain," Women Writing Culture Conference, University of Michigan, October, 1991
"Shaping Native American Women's Histories," National Graduate Women's Studies Conference, University of Michigan, October, 1990
AWARDS AND GRANTS
Wrote proposal for successful Humanities Montana grant to support Montana Historical Society publication of Mining Childhood, 2011. Wrote proposal and received funding from the University of Michigan School of Social Work to host Shifting Boundaries of Childhood Seminar, March, 2010. Invited Keynote Speaker, Social Work and Social Justice, Barry University, Miami, Florida, 2009 Marie Weil Award, Best Publication in Journal of Community Practice, 2006 UM Visiting Scholar Grant, 2003, 2005 Montana Committee for the Humanities, Research Fellowship, 2003-04. Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, Brigham Young University, Faculty Research Fellowship,
11 2003 U. Montana, Mini-sabbatical grant for travel to Chile to complete La Victoria project, 2002 U. Mich, Arts of Citizenship Grant for “Youth on Record,” with Chris Wiltsee and Antonio Alvarez, 2001 U. Mich, Rackham Graduate School Faculty Research Grant, 2001 (declined to return to U. Montana) U Mich., Office of the Vice President for Research Grant for “Young People as Competent Community Builders,” 2000 U Mich., Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, Faculty Development Grant, 2000 U Mich. School of Social Work, Global Program on Youth Grant for “Young People as Competent Community Builders in the Americas” Co-P.I. with Barry Checkoway, 1999 Silberman Fund Grant for "Women Building Community" Research Project, 1999 University of Montana Women's Studies Program Faculty Publication Award, 1999 Winston and Helen Cox Teaching Award, University of Montana, 1998 Mortar Board Teacher of the Month, September, 1997 Most Inspirational Teacher Award, University of Montana, 1997. University of Montana Merit Award for teaching and scholarship, 1997 Montana Campus Compact Service Learning Grant for community based research project, "Assessing the Local Impacts of 'Families Achieving Independence in Montana (FAIM)'"(co-investigator) October, 1996 Distinguished Dissertation Award, U. of Michigan, Rackham Graduate School, April, 1996 Montana Committee for the Humanities Grant for "Out of the Shadows" April, 1996 U. Montana Visiting Scholar Grant for "Out of the Shadows" series, November, 1995 University Research Grant for Summer Research on pilot project, "Women Building Community: Lessons From the Rockies to the Andes," Summer, 1996 Instructional Development Grant, Davidson Honors College, to prepare new service learning course, "Women and Social Action in the Americas," Summer, 1995 Rackham Dissertation Fellow, University of Michigan, 1993-94 Mary Malcomson Raphael Fellow, University of Michigan, 1993-94 American Association of University Women American Fellowship, 1993-94 (declined)
UNIVERSITY SERVICE Sabbatical Review Committee, 2013-present UM tenure and promotion appeals committee, 2011-present MSW Program committee, 2011-present Faculty Evaluation Committee, 2012-present Search Committee,2013-14 Acting Chair, School of Social Work, Spring, 2011 Director, MSW Program, 2005-2010 BSW Admissions Committee, 2010-11. School of Social Work Assessment Committee, 2010- 2011, 2014 Student Affairs Committee, 2005-2007 Social Work Curriculum Committee, 2001-2004 MSW Admissions Committee, 2001-2012 Charitable Giving Campaign Steering Committee, 2006-08 International Development Studies Minor Faculty Group, 2005-present Interdisciplinary Planning Committee for Public Health Program, 2004-08 Office of International Programs Faculty Advisory Committee, 2003-04 Women’s Studies Steering Committee, University of Montana, 2001-2005 Provost’s Committee on Graduate Education, University of Montana, 2001-02 Academic Standards and Curriculum Review Committee, University of Montana 1995-1999, Chair 97-98
12 Faculty Senate, 1997-98 University Committee on Sexual Assault, 1997-99 Women’s History Month Planning Committee, 1996 COMMUNITY SERVICE Montana Woman Suffrage Centennial Committee, 2013-14 Women’s History Matters Essay Contest coordinator & reviewer, 2014 Speaker and consultant, Montana Historical Society teacher education workshops, 2013-14 Volunteer Escort, Blue Mountain Clinic 2004-2006 Member, Coordinating Council, Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, 2002-2006 Advisory Board Member, WEEL, Missoula, MT 1998-2001 Board Member, WORD, Missoula, MT 1998-99 Research Consultant to Missoula County Welfare Reform Advisory Group, 1996 Co-organizer, International Women’s Day Commemoration, Missoula, 1996 Co-organizer, Campus-community forum on Poverty, 1995 Consultant and volunteer facilitator, Safe Space Domestic Violence Shelter, Butte, 1993-94
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND ACTIVITIES
Council on Social Work Education, 2002-present Co-Chair National Conference on Feminism and Social Work, 2009-2011 Affilia Women and Social Work Corporate Board, 2007-2013 Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Social Work Education, 2012-present CSWE Council on the Role and Status of Women, 2006 - 2012 External tenure/promotion reviewer – Conduct 2-3 reviews annually Editorial Board Member, Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work, 1999-2005 Ad Hoc Reviewer for Social Service Review, Journal of Community Practice, Journal of Social Work Education, Human Organization, Cultural Anthropology, American Journal of Sociology, Affilia, Children and Youth Services Review, Childhood, Montana, Magazine of Western History and Frontiers External Evaluator, MSW program, Catholic University, Santiago, Chile, 2001-02 Consultant, documentary film, “Butte, America: Legacy of a Hard Rock Mining Town,” Written and produced by Pamela Roberts and Ed Dobb, 2000-2009. Film released in 2009.
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