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 include: Paul H. Stuart, “Historical Research,” in Social Work Research and Evaluation: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches, edited by Richard M. Grinnell, Jr., and Yvonne A. Unrau, 7th edition. (New York Oxford University Press, 2005), pp. 329-338. John M. Herrick and Paul H. Stuart, eds., Encyclopedia of Social Welfare History in North America (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2005); Paul H. Stuart, “Individualization and Prevention: Richard C. Cabot and Early Medical Social Work,” Social Work in Mental Health, vol. 2, no. 2/3 (2004), pp. 7-20. Paul H. Stuart, “Social Welfare and Rural People: From the Colonial Era to the Present,” in Rural Social Work: Building and Sustaining Community Assets, edited by T. Laine Scales and Calvin L. Streeter. (Belmont,CA: Books/Cole, 2004), pp.21-33; and Paul H. Stuart, “Linking Clients and Policy: Social Work’s Distinctive Contribution,” Social Work 44 (July 1999): 335-348. In 2015, the Florida Education Fund honored Stuart with the William R. Jones Outstanding Mentor Award for 2015.