Emeriti

James Midgley

Professor of the Graduate School and Dean Emeritus

James Midgley is Professor of the Graduate School and Dean Emeritus of the School of Social Welfare. He served as Dean from 1997 to 2006 and was the Harry and Riva Specht Professor of Public Social Services from 1997 to 2016 when he retired from full-time academic work. Originally from South Africa, he studied at the University of Cape Town where he trained as a social worker and completed a master and doctorate in sociology. He subsequently joined the faculty teaching sociology, social policy and social work. In 1970, he won a prestigious campus award to study at the London School of...

Michael J. Austin

Emeritus Professor and Professor of the Graduate School

Mack Professor Emeritus and Professor of the Graduate School Michael J. Austin is the founding the director of the Mack Center on Nonprofit and Public Sector Management in the Human Services, former editor of Human Service Organizations, and former Staff Director of the Bay Area Social Services Consortium. He is also the former dean of the School of Social Work at the University of Pennsylvania and has taught at Florida State University and the University of Washington, where he chaired the macro practice specializations.

Over his 50-year career in academe, he has...

Jeffrey L. Edleson

Former Dean and Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School

Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School Jeffrey L. Edleson is the Harry and Riva Specht Chair Emeritus and served as Dean from 2012 through August 2019. He was a professor of social work at the University of Minnesota School of Social Work for 29 years before joining Berkeley in 2012 and the founding director of the Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse.

A leading expert in domestic violence, Dr. Edleson's current research examines the impact of adult violence on children and how social systems respond to these children. His work also focuses on international parental...

Bari Cornet

Emerita Lecturer and Practica Consultant

Bari Cornet is field education consultant and lecturer emerita at the School of Social Welfare. She served in the Management and Planning concentration and holds expertise in public health social work with a focus on maternal and child health. Her research interests include definition and implementation of psychosocial services within perinatal health, healthcare delivery through the use of community health workers and increasing access to care for the underserved.

Cornet earned both her MSW ('85) and MPH ('86) at UC Berkeley.

Eileen Gambrill

Emeritus Professor and Professor of the Graduate School

Eileen Gambrill is professor of the graduate school at the School of Social Welfare. Her research interests include professional ethics and education; evidence-based practice; professional decision making; social learning theory; behavioral methods; evaluation of practice; and social skills training.

Dr. Gambrill is a grantee of the University of Bristol's Benjamin Meeker Fellowship as well as a two-time recipeint of the Pro Humanitate Award, which is bestowed by the North American Resource Center for Child Welfare. She has also served as a visiting scholar at the University of...

Jewelle Taylor Gibbs

Emerita Professor

Jewelle Taylor Gibbs is professor emerita at the School of Social Welfare as well as a clinical psychologist and noted writer. She is the author of Preserving Privilege: California Politics, Propositions, and People of Color (2001), and her research interests include adolescent psychosocial problems, minority mental health, juvenile justice issues, biracial and bicultural identity issues, and urban social policy.

After graduating from Berkeley Social Welfare's MSW program in 1970, Dr. Taylor Gibbs served as a clinical social worker at Stanford University before returning to...

William Runyan

Emeritus Professor

William McKinley Runyan is professor emeritus at the School of Social Welfare. An expert in the fields of history, psychology and psychobiography as they relate to social work and social welfare, Runyan's research considers such topics as the history of psychoanalysis and personality psychology, life histories and case histories, adult development and the history and philosophy of the social sciences.

Expanded Publications

Runyan, W. M. (2013). Psychobiography and the Psychology of Science: Encounters With Psychology, Philosophy, and Statistics. Handbook of the Psychology of...

Andrew Scharlach

Emeritus Professor and Professor of the Graduate School

Professor of the Graduate School Andrew Scharlach served as the longtime Eugene and Rose Kleiner Professor of Aging at the School of Social Welfare. He also directed the Center for the Advanced Study of Aging Services.

Dr. Scharlach’s research examines innovative social and community supports designed to promote healthy aging. His current multi-year program of research examines emerging initiatives for helping communities to become more aging-friendly. Dr. Scharlach’s other research interests include aging policies, programs and services; social support; family caregiving; work/...

Steven P. Segal

Emeritus Professor and Professor of the Graduate School

Steven P. Segal is professor of the graduate school at the School of Social Welfare. His research interests include mental health and social policy, research methods, adult residential care, self-help mental health services, violence and mental illness, community mental health, homelessness, social work practice, psychiatric epidemiology, social support systems, social ecology, health policy and psychiatric emergencies.

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Paul Terrell

Emeritus Lecturer and Coordinator of Academic Programs

Paul Terrell is lecturer and coordinator of academic programs emeritus at the School of Social Welfare. His research focuses on social policy, particularly the financing and organization of social welfare programs and public voluntary sector relationships and contracting.