Teaching Faculty
Eric Albers, eric@unr.nevada.edu Profile
Associate Professor; M.S.W. 1976, Our Lady of the Lake University; Ph.D. 1981, Texas Women’s University. Teaches graduate and undergraduate Human Behavior and the Social Environment as well as Methods in Social Work Practice. Professor Albers has been active on several committees, including seven years on the Committee for the Protection of Children, where he served as a chair for four years. He has also been a member of the Commission on Mental Health and Developmental Services, a position appointed by the governor. In addition, Professor Albers is a chair of the governing board for the Nevada Mental Health Institute.
Linda Anngela, lanngela@unr.edu Profile
Assistant Professor; M.S.W. 1992, University of Nevada-Reno; Ph.D. 2002, University of Hawaii. Teaches graduate Social Work courses in Research Methods, SW practice with individuals, families, and groups, and Human Behavior in the Social Environment. Professor Anngela specializes in health care and gerontology, with primary MSW work experience in these areas (hospital, home health care and hospice programs). Primary social work research interests are in multiculturalism, and end-of-life care giving.
Alice Boateng, boateng@unr.edu
Assistant Professor; MSW 1999, Washington University; Ph.D. 2006, University of Georgia. Professor Boateng teaches Foundations of Social Welfare, Field Experience and Advanced Generalist Practice: Organizations/Community. She has 16 years of practical experience working with children in her home country of Ghana in both elementary and high school prior to entering her MSW program in St. Louis. In the United States she has teaching experience in both the School of Social Work and the Women’s Studies Department at the University of Georgia. Her research interests include immigration, women, impact of war on women’s social capital, and social policy issues. She is also involved in study abroad.
Susan Chandler, chandler@unr.edu
Associate Professor and MSW Program Coordinator; M.S.W. 1987, California State University, Sacramento; Ph.D. 1993, University of California at Berkeley. Professor Chandler teaches graduate courses in Macro Practice and Community Organizing, Social Welfare Policy, and Multi-Culturalism. Her research interests include 1) social welfare history, particularly as seen in its racial context; 2) Latinos and social services; 3) social work education and human diversity; and 4) living wage. She is currently conducting research on women casino workers.
Jeanne Hilton, hilton@unr.edu Profile Professor, School of Social Work; Adjunct Professor, Department of Human Development and Family Studies; State Specialist, University of Nevada Cooperative Extension; Certified Family Life Educator. Education: Ph.D. in Family Economics, HDFS, Oregon State University. Research Interests include: Divorce, single-parenting, and remarriage and parent-child functioning; custodial fathers; intergenerational resource exchange; healthy aging.
Mary E. Hylton, mhylton@unr.edu Profile
Assistant Professor, 3 + 1 Program Coordinator; M.S.W. 1994, University of Southern California; Ph.D. 2002, University of South Carolina. Professor Hylton teaches human behavior, practice with small groups, and a capstone/diversity course. Her research interests include: the effects of distance education on learning outcomes within social work; lesbian and gay issues; and child welfare.
Karen Kopera-Frye, kfrye@unr.edu Profile
Gloria Messick-Svare, glorias@unr.edu (No photo available.) Profile
Assistant Professor; M.S.W. 1971, University of California, Los Angeles; Ph.D. 1998, University of California at Berkeley. Teaches graduate and undergraduate research methods as well as community organizing. Professor Messick Svare conducts prevention-oriented alcohol abuse research, examining the influence of workplaces. She also studies step families from the perspective of young adult stepchildren and investigates issues related to the integration of spirituality and social work practice. Other current projects broadly relate to evaluation of the curriculum and classroom instruction within social work education.
Denise Montcalm, montcalm@unr.edu
Director of the School of Social Work, BSW Program Coordinator, and Associate Professor; BSW 1974, Nazareth College, M.S.W. 1985, Michigan State University, Ph.D. 1991, Michigan State University, Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship in Aging Studies 1991-1993, University of Michigan. Professor Montcalm teaches courses in research, data analysis, human behavior, and death and dying. Her primary research interests include research self-efficacy (among social workers) and family care giving. Community involvement includes past program chair for the Association of Baccalaureate Social Work Program Directors annual conference, past vice-president for the Nevada Chapter of the NASW; and current Nevada Geriatric Education Center Board of Directors.
Mahasin Saleh, msaleh@unr.edu (No photo available.)
Assistant Professor; MSW 1996, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Ph.D. 2006, University of Houston, Texas. Professor Saleh teaches Foundations of Social Work Practice, Advanced Practicum and Introduction to Social Work Research Methods. The focus of her teaching has included MSW practice courses, as well as trainings on engaging fathers in social services. She also has gained experience with Title IV-E at the local, state, and national levels. Dr. Saleh’s research interests include paternal involvement, young fathers, child welfare, and international social work. Some of her research includes paternal involvement in low-income families, services for young fathers, and program evaluation of school-based male involvement programs.
Emeritus Faculty
Ellen Pillard, epillard@scs.unr.edu
Emeritus; MSW 1967, University of Washington.
Professor Pillard teaches graduate courses in practice and gender issues in social work. Her research interests focus on issues of women and female prostitution.
Jill Jones, jbjones@unr.edu
Associate Professor, M.S.W. Program Coordinator; M.S.W. 1987, University of Utah; Ph.D. 1993, Bryn Mawr College. Professor Jones teaches graduate courses in research and human development and an undergraduate core/diversity course on the relationship between personal biography and social issues in women’s narratives. Her research interests include gender and quality-of-life issues in health care and women’s issues including health, menopause, use of hormone replacement therapy, and life span development from a multi-cultural perspective. Her most recent research focuses on women’s work within a global economy. She is currently conducting research on women casino workers.