Nov 24, 2024  
2024-2025 Graduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Graduate Catalog

School of Social Work Faculty


Director 

Stream, Chris

Graduate Program Coordinator  

Aldaba, Ivet

Graduate Faculty

Albert, Vicky 

Professor; B.S.W., M.S.W., University of Illinois; D.S.W., University of California, Berkeley. Rebel since 1998.

Barr, Nicholas 

Assistant Professor; B.A., Columbia University; M.S.W., University of California, Los Angeles; Ph.D., University of Southern California. Rebel since 2019.

Bergquist, Kathleen Leilani Ja Sook 

Associate Professor; B.A., Christopher Newport University, M.S.W., Norfolk State University, Ph.D., College of William and Mary; J.D., Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Rebel since 2004.

Bosetti, Rebecca 

Assistant Professor; B.S., University of Pittsburgh; M.S.W., The Ohio State University; Ph.D., The Ohio State University. Rebel since 2020.

Giger, Jarod T. 

Associate Professor; B.S., Southern Illinois University; M.S.W., Southern Illinois University; Ph.D., University of Missouri. Rebel since 2022.

Marçal, Katherine 

Assistant Professor; B.A., Washington University in St. Louis; M.S.W., Washington University in St. Louis; Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis. Rebel since 2019. 

Sun, An-Pyng 

Professor; B.A., National Chung-Shing University; M.S.W., University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana; Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University. Rebel since 1997.

Professor Emeriti  

Denby Brinson, Ramona

Professor; B.S.W., Arizona State University; M.S.W., University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Ph.D., The Ohio State University. UNLV Emeritus 2017.

Epstein, William M. 

Professor; B.A., Brooklyn College; M.S.W., University of Pittsburgh; D.S.W., Columbia University. UNLV Emeritus 2018.

Langston, Esther

Professor; B.A., Wiley College; M.S.W., San Diego State University; Ph.D., University of Texas. UNLV Emeritus 1970.

Oakes, Margaret

Associate Professor; B.A., University of Arizona; M.S.W., California State University, Fresno; Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin. UNLV Emeritus 1997-2010.

Sharma, Satish 

Professor; B.A., M.A., Panjab University; M.S.W., University of Iowa; Ph.D., Ohio State University. UNLV Emeritus 1982-2021.

Thompson, Joanne

Professor; B.A., LaGrange College, M.S.W., University of Arkansas, Ph.D., Rutgers University. UNLV Emeritus 2017.