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April Murphy

Associate Professor, Department of Social Work

Disciplines

  • Social Work

Research Interests

  • My research interests center around child welfare, human trafficking, social work education and ethics. In the area of child welfare, I have conducted a number of studies related to child maltreatment and foster care/adoption, which was born out of my several years of social work practice with children and families. I have also developed a standardized tool for child welfare agencies to utilize to assess barriers to permanency for children in the child welfare system. I am currently working on research related to ethical decision-making for social work students utilizing a national sample as well as exploring effective ways to identify victims of human trafficking.

Audra Jennings

Department Head and Associate Professor, Department of History

Disciplines

  • History
  • History of Gender
  • History of Science, Technology, and Medicine

Research Interests

  • United States History after 1865, Disability and Medical History, Disability Studies, Social Movements, Gender and Women’s History, Labor History, Veterans, Social and Political History in the United States in the Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, History of the New Deal, Citizenship in the United States

Discipline

    1. Library and Information Science 21
    2. Nursing 8
    3. History 5
    4. Social History 5
    5. Women's Studies 5

Research Interest

    1. Academic Library Technical Services Management 2
    2. Academic Research and Instruction Librarian 1
    3. Adolescent Substance Use 1
    4. African Diaspora 1
    5. Aging Out Foster Care Youth 1
    1. American History 1
    2. Ancient Philosophy 1
    3. Attitudes toward Single Americans 1
    4. Bachelors, Dudes, Old Maids and Spinsters 1
    5. Bibliographic Access 1
    6. Black mother/daughter relationships 1
    7. Black women’s experiences as daughters in the creative and critical productions of African-American women 1
    8. Black women’s mothering experiences 1
    9. Building Information Modeling 1
    10. Building Performance 1
    11. Catholic education 1
    12. Child Welfare Practice 1
    13. Children's author Annie Fellows Johnston 1
    14. Chinese Ethnology and Folk Culture 1
    15. Clarinet and Saxophone Performance and Pedagogy 1
    16. Coaching protocols to enhance principals' self-reflection and self-awareness 1
    17. Cold War 1
    18. Communication and social behavior of herbivorous mammals, such as elephants, manatees, beavers and horses 1
    19. Community Literacy 1
    20. Control theory, stability, stabilization, partial differential equations, materials science, continuum mechanics, acoustics 1
    21. Critical Animal Studies 1
    22. Cultural Diversity 1
    23. Data Mining 1
    24. Digital Rhetoric 1
    25. Early Christianity 1
    26. Early and Modern History of Christian Thought 1
    27. Eastern Europe 1
    28. Education reform and policy 1
    29. Efficacy of diversity training in social work education 1
    30. Environmental justice and social work education 1
    31. Ethics 1
    32. Exhibit Development 1
    33. Feminist Theory 1
    34. First Generation College Students 1
    35. Flyover Country 1
    36. Genealogy 1
    37. Globalization, Colonialism and Sustainability 1
    38. Hazard Resistant Construction 1
    39. Hazard Risk & Loss Assessment and Mitigation 1
    40. Historic Textiles 1
    41. History and Social History of the Republic and Principate 1
    42. History of Work 1
    43. Inner lives of School Leaders 1
    44. Instructional Design 1
    45. Intellectual, emotional, and spiritual aspects of leadership 1

Organization

    1. University Libraries 7
    2. Department of History 7
    3. Department of Social Work 5
    4. School of Nursing 5
    5. Department of Philosophy & Religion 4

Position

    1. Faculty Member 80
    2. Non-Academic Position 3
    3. Non-Faculty Academic Position 2
    4. Emeritus Faculty 1