Ann
Withorn
Ph.D.,
Social Welfare, Brandeis University
Professor,
Social Policy and Welfare Rights
Office:
W-3-154-05
Phone
number: 617-287-7365
Ann.Withorn@umb.edu
Professor
Withorn has been teaching undergraduate courses about social policy,
social movements, about women's and welfare rights issues and
about experiential learning at CPCS since 1977. She also teaches
in the Public Policy Ph.D. Program and in the Masters in Human
Services Program. Professor Withorn is actively involved in research,
writing, and advocacy around poverty and social policy issues.
She speaks and writes about ideology and the welfare state, privatization,
and social movements, She is a long-time steering committee member
of the Social Welfare Action Alliance, an international organization
of social welfare activists.
Recent
Publications:
"Still
Working for Justice? Community Based Organizations in the Regressive
Era" a revision of two previous reports for the W.K.Kellogg
foundation, "Worrying about Welfare Reform"(1999) and
"Let's Pretend: Community Based Agencies in the Post Welfare
Reform Era(2001)," under contract with Temple University
Press, anticipated publication date, 2005.
“Changing
Communities, Changing Lives: Oral Histories from Action for Boston
Community Development,” edited, with Robert C. Hayden. March,
2002, published by ABCD.
Lost
Ground: Reforming Welfare, Redefining Poverty. co-edited with
Randy Albelda, South End Press, 2002(June), slightly revised version
of the special issue of The Annals of the Academy of American
Political and Social Science on welfare reform, September 2001.
For
Crying Out Loud: Women's Poverty in the United States , co-edited
with Diane Dujon, South End Press, 1996.
Evaluates
the following competencies:
•
Member of the Experiential Learning Team
•
The Organizing Concentration -- all comps
•
Public and Community Action I, II and III
•
Value Conflicts in Public and Community Service
•
Critical Practice in Public and Community Service
•
Organizational Dynamics
•
Models of Social Change
Links:
http://www.publicpolicy.umb.edu/WITHORN.HTM
http://www.bostonabcd.org/publicinfo/2002/3-25-2002.htm
http://www.bostonabcd.org/whatsnext/dialogue-worrying.htm
