Article by Michael Barga. The Noble and Holy Order of the Knights of Labor were the most prominent labor organization of the 1880’s. Characterized by its oath-bound secrecy, its emphasis on autonomy of local Knights and non-violence, and its broad sense of solidarity, it is considered by many to be a failed experiment in the labor movement which did not capitalize on the action-mindedness of the Great Upheaval moment.
Continue Reading »Amanda Peck served as Assistant Director for External Affairs and Donor Relations for University Settlement and its subsidiary organization: The Door (2008 – 2015).
Continue Reading »Betsy Schaefer Vourlekis, Ph.D. is professor emeritus of social work at the University of Maryland School of Social Work. She received her B.A. from Harvard University, majoring in East Asian History, M.S.W. from Columbia University, and Ph.D. in Human Development from the University of Maryland, College Park. She practiced psychiatric social work at St. Elizabeths…
Continue Reading »Paul H. Stuart, Ph.D., is Professor and Director of the School of Social Work, Florida International University, Miami. He is the co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Social Welfare History in North America (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2005). His fields of interest include the history of social work and social welfare and federal Indian policy. His publications…
Continue Reading »Wilma Peebles-Wilkins, Ph.D., is Dean Emerita at Boston University and a former scholar at the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University. She served for several years as Dean, Boston University School of Social Work, Boston, MA. Dr. Peebles-Wilkins has written and published extensively on the history of Blacks in American social welfare. Among her…
Continue Reading »John Sorensen is the Executive Director of the Abbott Sisters Project and the co-editor of The Grace Abbott Reader (2008) for the University of Nebraska Press. He has organized major Abbott events for the New York Public Library, the Chicago Humanities Festival, Chicago Public Radio, etc. The Abbott Sisters Project is a not-for-profit operation (active since…
Continue Reading »Catherine (Katy) Papell (d. 2013) was involved in social work activities since 1940. A 1937 graduate of the University of Michigan, Dr. Papell received a Master’s of Arts degree from Columbia University’s Teachers College in 1938 and a Masters in Social Work from the University of Pennsylvania in 1950. She was awarded a Doctorate of…
Continue Reading »Sonya Michel, Ph.D., Professor Emerita, American Studies and History, University of Maryland. Her research areas include gender and social policy in the U.S. and in comparative perspective, and she is particularly interested in the relationship between the public and private sectors and social provision. Among her publications are Children’s Interests/Mothers’Rights: The Shaping of America’s Child…
Continue Reading »Jerry D. Marx, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Work at the University of New Hampshire. Before earning his Ph.D. at the Boston College Graduate School of Social Work, Marx served as Executive Director for eight years of a family service, nonprofit agency in Portland, Maine. Marx’s research interest is community…
Continue Reading »Andrew Malekoff, is Executive Director / CEO for North Shore Child and Family Guidance Center, Roslyn Heights, New York where he has worked since 1977. He is a NY State licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) and credentialed alcoholism and substance abuse counselor (CASAC). Malekoff has been editor of the journal Social Work with Groups since…
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