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MIMI ABRAMOVITZ, DSW, MSW [email protected] 395 Riverside Drive, Apt. 4A Silberman School of Social Work, Hunter College, CUNY New York, 10025 2180 Third Avenue New York, N.Y. 10035 (212) 866-2429 (212) 396-3575 EDUCATION: Columbia University School of Social Work, Doctorate in Social Work Columbia University School of Social Work, Master in Social Work University of Michigan, Bachelor of Arts in Sociology HONORS MSW Columbia University School of Social Work, with Distinction BA University of Michigan with High Honors and Distinction, Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Lambda Delta, & William H. Branstrom, Freshman Prize. ACEDEMIC EMPLOYMENT: 2007-pres-Bertha Capen Reynolds Professor in Social Policy 1988-pres-Professor, Masters Program, Hunter School of Social Work, CUNY 1988-pres-Doctoral Program in Social Welfare, Graduate Center, CUNY 1986-1988-Associate Professor, Hunter College School of Social Work, NY 1981-1985-Assistant Professor, Hunter College School of Social Work, NY AWARDS 2019 Leadership Award, Building an Inclusive Economy in NYC , Labor Market Information Service, Center for Urban Research, CUNY Graduate Center , NYC January 17 2018 Significant Lifetime Achievement in Social Work Education Award CSWE Nov 11, Orlando Fla. 2016 Fellow, American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare 2015 Top Social Work Leader Award, NASW. New York City Chapter 2015 Social Work Pioneer for contributions and leadership, NASW Foundation 2013 Honored as a Mentor, Women’s Council, Council on Social Work Education, Oct. Dallas, Texas 2013 Humanitarian & Leadership Award for contributions to social work, women, & human rights Association for International Conferences. New York, April 19, 2012 Activist Scholar Award, Division of Sociology and Social Welfare, Society for the Study of Social Problems, Denver Colorado, 8/16 2010- Honored, Cofounder of the Welfare Rights Initiative, 15h Anniversary Celebration, Hunter College, CUNY, NY, May 27 2009 Honored as a Mentor, Women’s Council, Council on Social Work Education, San Antonio, 11/8\ 2007 Appointed to Bertha Capen Reynolds Endowed Chair at Hunter School of Social Work\ 2007 Inducted into Columbia University School of Social Work Alumni Hall of Fame 4/19 2006 Faculty of the Year Award, NYS Social Work Educators Association. 11/17. 2004 Distinguished Recent Contributions to Social Work Education, Council on SW Education, 2/27.| 2004 Feminist Scholarship Award, presented in honor of Mimi Abramovitz, Women’s Council, CSWE 1997 Under Attack, Fighting Back: Women and Welfare in the United States was named the "Outstanding Book" on the subject of human rights in North America by the Myers Center For The Study of Human Rights In North America 1995 National Association of Social Workers, New York City Chapter, PACE, Award for Significant Contributions to Social Services and Political Activism, 4/27 VISITING SCHOLAR 2014 University of Lund, School of Social Work, Lund Sweden March 17-24 2013 University of Zurich, Institute of Education Zurich Switzerland Sept 29 to Oct 20 2006 Visiting Scholar Ryerson, York and McMaster Universities, Toronto, Canada March 22-24 2005 Visiting Scholar, University of Washington, Seattle; University of Washington/Tacoma, May 3-5. BOOKS Gendered Obligations: The History of Activism Among Black and White Working-Class Women Since 1900. (in process) 2018 Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy From Colonial Times to the Present, Routledge, London and New York. 3rd Edition ( 2nd ed., 1996, 1st ed., 1988) 2 2014 The Dynamics of Social Welfare Policy, NY: Oxford University Press (and Joel Blau). (4th rev ed) 2006- Taxes Are A Women’s Issue: Reframing the Debate. NY. The Feminist Press (with Sandra Morgan) 2000 Under Attack, Fighting Back: Women and Welfare in the United States, NY: Monthly Review Press, 2nd rev edition. ARTICLES: ACADEMIC JOURNALS 2021 (submitted) Structural Racism, Managerialism and the Future of the Human Services: Re-Writing the Rules, Social Work ( with Jennifer Zenick) 2021 Assessing the Business Model in Social Work: A validation of the Organizational Commitment to Managerialism Scale Journal of the Society for Social Work and. Research(Work ( with Jennifer Zenick and Steven Pirutinsky| 2021 Fran Baum, Toby Freeman, Connie Musolino, Mimi Abramovitz, Wim De Ceukelaire, Joanne Flavel, Sharon Friel, Camila Giugliani, Philippa Howden-Chapman Nguyen Thanh Huong, Leslie London, Martin McKee, Jennie Popay, Hani Serag, Eugenio Villar ( 2021) Explaining covid-19 performance: what factors might predict national responses British Medical Journal ;372:n91 https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/372/bmj.n91.full.pdf 2021 The Persistence of Residential Segregation by Race: 1940 to 2010. Families in Society (w. Richard Smith) Families in Society 102 (1);5-32. (first published online 11/12/20| https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1044389420923469 2020 The Perils of Privatization: Bringing the Business Model into the Human Services. Social Work 65(3):213-224 (with Jennifer Zenick) https://doi-org.proxy.wexler.hunter.cuny.edu/10.1093/sw/swaa024 2020 How to Proceed with Professionalism and Managerialism In Social Work’ in New Practice (Neuepraxis. special issue) Neuwied. Germany 2019 Voting is Social Work; Voices from the National Social Work Mobilization Campaign, Journal of Social Work Education 19: 626-644 (with Margaret Sherraden, Katharine Hill, Tanya R Smith, Beth Lewis, Terry Mizrahi). https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10437797.2019.1656690 2019. Political Ideology and Social Welfare. NASW Encyclopedia of Social Work, NY Oxford University Press( on line edition) 2018 Voting Is Social Work: Voter Empowerment and the National Social Work Voter Mobilization Campaign The New Social Worker, Fall. 2018 Logic of The Market Versus the Logic of Social Work; Whither the Welfare State Social Work and Society 16(2) (Online Journal) Special Supplement. Proceedings of the Conference Ambivalences of the Rising Welfare Service State Hopes and Hazards of Fundamentally Realigning the Architecture of Welfare 2016 Case to Cause: Back to the Future, Journal of Social Work Education (w. Margaret Sherraden) v. 52 Special Issue) S89 to S98 2015 Privatization in the Human Services Implications for Direct Practice, Clinical Social Work Journal June 43(3):283- 293 (with Jennifer Zelnick) 2015 Moving Toward Racial Equity: The Undoing Racism Workshop and Organizational Change. Journal of Race and Social Problem (with Lisa Blitz) 7(2): 97-110 2014 Indicator Analysis for Unpacking Poverty in New York City, Journal of the Urban and Regional Information Association ( with Jochen Albrecht), 26(1): 5-12. 2013 Community Loss: A New Social Indicator (with Jochen Albrecht) Social Service Review. 57(1) (December) 677-774. 2012 Feminization of Austerity, New Labor Forum, Winter 21(1): 32-41 2010 Double Jeopardy: The Impact of Neoliberalism on Care Workers In The United States and South Africa (with Jennifer Zelnick) International Journal of Health Services, 40(1):97-11. 2009 “Wall St Takes Welfare It Begrudges Women" Affilia:A Journal for Women in Social Work, (May) (reprinted from Women’ eNews. 2007 Poverty and Economic Injustice, in Social Work Today (March/April) pp 27-28 2006 Welfare Reform in the United States: Race, Class, and Gender Matters. Critical Social Policy 26(2): 336- 364. Reprinted in Leon-Guerrero Anna & Kristine M Zentgraf, Readings in Social Problems Pine Forge Press, 2009, pp 198-212 2005 The Largely Untold Story of Welfare Reform & the Human Services, Social Work, April 50 (2).175-186. 2005 Women and the Welfare State, in J. Herrick & Paul Stewart (eds.) Encyclopedia of Social Welfare History. Sage Publishers (December): 447-450. 2004 Saving Capitalism From Itself: Whither The Welfare State? New England Journal of Public Policy 2 (F/W): 21-32. 3 2003 Fiscal Welfare, Robert L Barker (ed). The Social Work Dictionary.5th ed. Washington, D.C. NASW Press. 2001 Everyone Is Still On Welfare: Role of Redistribution in Social Policy, Social Work, 46(4) 297-308. 2001 Learning from The History of Poor and Working Class Women’s Activism. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (Special Issue: Reforming Welfare, Redefining Poverty (577(September), pp 118-130 2000 Trabjo Social Y Transformation Social, Cuadernos Andaluces de Bienstar Social, April (IV) (# 6 &7) April 2000) (Spanish translation of Social Work & Social Reform) 1998 Social Work and Social Reform: An Arena of Struggle, Social Work, 43(6) (November) 512-527 ( 1996 Women: Get Ready For The Long Haul, Affilia:A Journal of Women and Social Work (12 (3) Fall 1994 Challenging The Myths of Welfare Reform From A Women's Perspective. Social Justice 21(1). 1993 Should All Social Work Students Be Educated for Social Change? Journal of Social Work Education 29(1) (Winter,1993): 6-11. 1992 Poor Women in a Bind: Social Reproduction Without Social Supports, Affilia: A Journal of Women and Social Work (7(2) (Summer): 23-44. 1992 The Reagan Legacy: Undoing the Class, Race and Gender Accords ,Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare/19 (1) (March).91-110 1991 Beleaguered American Family: Social Policy in Disarray, Families & Society. 72(8 )(October) 483-96. 1991 Putting an End To Double-Speak About Race, Gender and Poverty: An Annotated Glossary For Social Workers. Social Work 36(5) (Sept) 380-386. 1990 Unemployment: A Women's View: Journal of Internat’l & Comparative Social Welfare 6( Spring/Fall). 1987 Making Gender A Variable in Social Work Teaching, Journal of Teaching in SW (Spring/Sum):29 -52. 1986 Privatizing the Welfare State: A Review, Social Work 31(July/August). 1986 Restoring the Family Ethic: The Assault on Women and the Programs of the Social Security Act, Gender and Ethnicity in Social Security, Rockefeller Institute Conference Proceedings, 6 Spr 1986, pp. 23-34. 1985 The New Secrecy: Limiting Democracy in the Welfare State, Social Policy 15(1)(Spring), pp.52-55. 1985 The Family Ethic and the Female Pauper: A New Perspective on Public Aid & Social Security Programs, Journal of Social Work Education 21(2) 1985 Family Ethic, Female Pauper & Public Aid Prior to 1900, Social Service Review 59(1)(Mar), pp.121-135.