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Eman Tadros

Ellen Mbuqe — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 15:06:44 +0000

Eman Tadros (she/her/hers) joined the marriage and family therapy faculty as an assistant professor in Fall 2023. She is a licensed marriage and family therapist, MBTI certified, and an AAMFT Approved Supervisor. Tadros is accepting new advisees, mentees, research assistants and interns, and she welcomes research collaboration between colleagues and students.

Tadros has published 105 research articles in scholarly journals. Her research focuses on incarcerated relationships. She has also written articles for magazines, edited collections such as The Advocate and Family Therapy Magazine, and is the assistant editor for the public health journal Child: Care, Health and Development. Through her writing, she has advocated for the rights of MFTs and has spoken to government officials on Capitol Hill regarding pressing issues faced by MFTs. Tadros works with the Empowering Woman program at Northeastern University, where she mentors women of color in achieving their academic and personal goals. She is presently the Illinois Family TEAM leader and was formerly the Ohio Family TEAM leader.

Prior to joining ��ϲ��, Tadros was an assistant professor and marriage and family counseling track leader in the Division of Psychology and Counseling from 2020-2023 and a faculty affiliate in the Gender and Sexuality Studies program at Governors State University in University Park, Illinois.

Stefanie Pilkay

Valerie Pietra — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 19:18:12 +0000

Stefanie Pilkay is an associate professor of social work at ��ϲ��’s School of Education. Before joining ��ϲ��, Pilkay served as an adjunct lecturer at both Yeshiva University’s Wurzweiler School of Social Work in New York, NY since 2018 and the University of Tennessee, College of Social Work in Knoxville, TN since 2015, teaching research methodology, trauma theory and practice, lifespan and neurophysiological development, and human behavior in the social environment. She was also a postdoctoral fellow at the Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics in Atlanta, GA since 2017. She has served as a court-appointed special advocate for Anderson County Tennessee Juvenile Court. In 2014, she was a forensic social worker for the Community Law Office, Knox County Public Defender’s Office.

Jennifer Genovese

Valerie Pietra — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 18:13:29 +0000

Jennifer Cornish Genovese is an associate teaching professor in the School of Social Work. She has previously taught in Human Development and Family Science and in the School of Social Work, including courses such as Power, Conflict, & Violence in the Family; Interpersonal Competence; Family Systems Theory; Advanced Practice with Individuals, Families, and Groups; and Practice with Children, Adolescents, and Families. Genovese is a NYS Licensed Certified Social Worker and has worked in private practice as a psychotherapist for 30 years. She specializes in the treatment of abused children and adolescents. She is a clinical consultant for the NYS Department of Social Services and facilitates monthly support groups on secondary traumatic stress of child welfare workers in multiple Central New York counties. She is also a program and ministry consultant for the Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church Upstate NY Synod.

Maria T. Brown

Michele Barrett — Fri, 19 Jul 2019 18:08:18 +0000

Maria Brown is an Associate Research Professor in the School of Social Work, and a 2008-2010 John A. Hartford Foundation Doctoral Fellow in Geriatric Social Work. She earned a Ph.D. from ��ϲ��’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. Her dissertation, entitled, “Psychiatric history and cognition trajectories in later life: variations by sex, race and ethnicity, and childhood disadvantage,” examined the relationship between psychiatric history and cognitive function in later life.

Ellen deLara

Leibowitz Vendor Account — Mon, 28 Nov 2016 20:28:33 +0000

In addition to her research on childhood bullying, Dr. deLara was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY where she conducted research with Dr. James Garbarino on child maltreatment at home and at school.