After nine years of direct practice social work including medical social work, child welfare, foster home and adoptions, and end-of-life care, Misty Wall completed a PhD at the University of Texas at Arlington. Dr. Wall joined the faculty of the School of Social Work at Boise State University in 2007. Dr. Wall's dissertation explored reproductive decisions among lesbian women, and her research interests focus on lesbian parenting, LGBT issues, child welfare, and adoption. She is currently working on an oral history project, "The Cry of the Poor: Voices from Those Living at the Economic Bottom", giving first-hand accounts of men and women living in deep poverty in three states.
Articles and Research Reports
Hearing the Voices of Lesbian Women Having Children, Journal of GLBT Family Studies (2011)
Whether single, or in the context of a lesbian relationship, lesbian women are choosing to...
A Model for Policy Analysis Applied to the Goodridge Case, Journal of Gay & Lesbian Social Services (2008)
Judicial decisions, especially Supreme Court decisions, are becoming, more than ever, major contributors to social...
Grand Families Count In Idaho (with Harriet Shaklee and Jeri Bigbee), Idaho Kids Count Policy Brief (2008)
Examines economic and psychosocial issues impacting kinship caregivers in Idaho.
Reproductive Decision Making Among Lesbian Women, Dissertation (2007)
A non-experimental, survey design was used to determine which factors influence a lesbian woman’s decision...
Contributions to Books
A Model for Policy Analysis Applied to the Goodridge Case, Social Work with Lesbian Parent Families: Ecological Perspectives (2009)
Explores the variety of social systems with which lesbian parent families interact, with a focus...
Presentations
Taking Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Bias Out of the Closet in Social Work Education, Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences (2010)
Opening the Floodgates: Overcoming Resistance to Diversity Content in the Social Work Classroom, Southwestern Social Work Association (2010)
E Pluribus Unum: Integrating Our Scholarship: The Importance of Having a Liberal Arts Perspective in Social Work Curriculum, Southwestern Social Work Association (2010)