Social Work
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SOCIAL WORK FACULTY

 

 

 

PICTURES

BIOGRAPHIES

CONTACT INFORMATION

Lynn Geurin  Lynn Geurin LCSW, ABD, University of Kentucky. Lynn Geurin is an Assistant Professor of social work at Morehead State University, and a doctoral candidate at the University of Kentucky, College of Social Work. She earned her Master of Social Work degree from the University of Kentucky in 1994.  She is licensed as a clinical social worker (LCSW), and serves as a clinical supervisor for social work mental health practitioners. Her research interests are clinical social work, intimate partner violence, and law & social work. Lynn has worked extensively with the Kentucky public defender system on training and evaluation. She teaches and does national presentations on issues related to law and social work.

Office: RA 314
Phone: 783- 9537
Email :
 
l.geurin@moreheadstate.edu

Carole Olson 

Carole Olson - Assistant Professor.
 Ph.D., University of Kentucky; MSW, University of Denver; BASW, University of Oklahoma; and Graduate Certificate in Gerontology, University of Kentucky Sanders-Brown Center on Aging. Research interests include gerontology education in social work and social work occupational choice.  Publications have appeared in the Journal of Evidence-Based Practice, Journal of Gerontological Social Work, and Journal of Teaching in Social Work.  Teaching interests include Human Behavior in Social Environment, micro and mezzo practice skills, research methods, and health and aging services.  Dr. Olson also has 16 years social work practice experience in health care and public child welfare. 

 

Office: RA 340
Phone: 783-9313
Email :
 
c.olson@moreheadstate.edu

 Lisa Shannon 

Lisa Shannon - Assistant Professor. Ph.D. University of Kentucky.

Office: RA
Phone:
Email :
 
l.shannon@moreheadstate.edu

 Cynthia Faulkner Cynthia A. Faulkner- Associate Professor. Ph.D., The University of Texas at Arlington; MSW, University of Kansas; BSSW, Kansas State University.  Primary responsibility as Social Work Field Director. Published in the Journal of Poverty,  the College Student Journal, and  two articles in Scientific Journal Internalional. She has also published the following book and book chapters:  

Social work career path as a program evaluator: An overview. In Many paths, one purpose: Career choices for human services and social work majors (2006). Tuyen Nguyen (ed.). Lexington Books.

Domestic violence in the Indonesian American community. In, Domestic Violence in Asian American communities (2005). Tuyen D. Nguyen (ed). Lexington Books.

Research methods for social workers: A practice-based approach (2009). Lyceum Press. Samuel Faulkner (co-author).

Etiological theories of substance abuse. In, Substance abuse counseling: Theory and practice. Patricia Smith (ed.) (2008). Pearson Merrill Prentice Hall.

Office: RA 328
Phone: 783-2702
Email : c.faulkner@moreheadstate.edu
 Sam Faulkner Samuel S. Faulkner-Associate Professor. Ph.D. & MSW, The University of Texas at Arlington. Research includes challenge course interventions: corporate, foster families & chemical dependency. Teaching interests include research, data analysis and chemical dependency. Recently published in Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly and Jounal of Poverty. Office: RA 304
Phone: 783-9382
Email :
s.faulkner@moreheadstate.edu
 Latonya Hesterberg

Latonya Hesterberg -Assistant Professor. Dr. Hesterberg graduated from Morehead State University in 1984 with a BSW, received her MSW from the University of Kentucky in 1990, and a PhD in Social Work from the University of Kentucky in December 2004. Areas of research are social work education, child welfare, and family violence.  She has a combined 20 years of social work experience as a child protective services worker, administrator, consultant, Cabinet for Health and Family Services Trainer, and professor. Professor Hesterberg also coordinates the Public Child Welfare Certification Program in Prestonsburg and Ashland.

Office: RA 331
Phone: 783-2551
Email : l.hesterberg@moreheadstate.edu
 Mary Margaret Just Mary Margaret Just- Associate Professor. Dr. Just served clients at Oklahoma's Department of Human Services and the Kentucky Child Welfare progam as a worker and supervisor beginning in 1970. She earned her MSW at the University of Oklahoma, focusing on the need for in-home/community-based care for older Oklahomans.  Dr. Just served as social work consultant for the state-wide Eldercare program from 1982 until she began work on her Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin in 1991. Her dissertation explored "Factors that affect the quantity and quality of interactive social support for nursing home residents." She continues to contribute to the Policy text authored by her dissertation chair.  Her research and publication since coming to MSU in 2000 has included expanding BSW-level programs to rural areas, keeping Habitat running in rural areas, principles of substance abuse treatment and substance abuse and the elderly. Office: RA 332
Phone: 783-5386
Email : m.just@moreheadstate.edu
Eric Swank

Eric Swank-Associate Professor. Ph.D. Ohio State University. Research interests include antiwar activism, welfare reform, media-politics interactions, and racial attitudes. Publications include Research in Social Movements, Conflict, and Change, Journal of Poverty, Research in Higher Education and Journal of Military and Political Sociology, In addition, he has been a special editor for the journal Race, Gender & Class and a participant in People to People's study tour Swedish Social Programs.

Office: RA 311
Phone: 783-2190
Email : e.swank@moreheadstate.edu

Judy Stafford

Judith Stafford -Associate Professor. Ph.D., The Ohio State University. MSW from Indiana University. Teaching interests - Micro, Mezzo, and Macro skills classes. Research interests - grassroots group community work, oral history of eastern Kentucky social workers and evaluation of the PCWCP program.

Grant: Stafford, J., Miles, M. (2007) “Oral History of Preserving Heritage Seeds,” funded by The Kentucky Oral History Commission , Kentucky Historical Society, Frankfort, KY $1000.

Fellowship: Stafford, J. “Undergraduate Research Fellowship” Department of Sociology/Social Work/Criminology, 2007-2008. Student awarded fellowship: Lynn Embleton

Dr. Satfford also coordinates Practicum at the Prestonsburg and Ashland campuses.

Office: RA 205
Phone: 783-2263
Email : j.stafford@moreheadstate.edu
 

COORDINATORS

 
 
Elizabeth Bishop

Elizabeth Marie Bishop (MSW, University of Kentucky). Coordinates the Social Work Program at the Prestonsburg campus. Teaching responsibilities have included Orientation to Social Work, Social Welfare History and Ethics, Field Experience in Social Work, Law and Social Work, Beginning Helping Skills, Micro Skills, Generalist Practice and Human Behavior in the Social Environment.

Prestonsburg Office Address:
 
6 Bert T. Combs Drive
Morehead Center, Room 209
Prestonsburg, KY 41653
Phone: 783-5421
Direct: (606)889-4289
Email : e.bishop@moreheadstate.edu
 Nancy Preston

Nancy Preston, LCSW.  Coordinates the Social Work Program at the Ashland campus. Nancy holds a BSW from Morehead State University and a MSW from the University of Kentucky.  She has teaches various social work classes and serves as advisor for social work majors. 

Ashland Office Address:
 
Ashland Community College, Room 317A
Prestonsburg, KY 41653
Phone: (606) 326-2117
Email : n.preston@moreheadstate.edu
 Jeannette Groeber Jeannette Groeber, (MSW, University of Ky.)  Coordinator of the Social Work Program at the MSU/ Mt. Sterling Campus.  Jeannette holds a BSW from Eastern Ky. University and a MSW from Univ. of KY.  Jeannette has 17 years of Social Work experience in the field of Social Work, including both the Public School setting and various medical settings. She has taught various Social Work classes and serves as an advisor 
for Social Work majors at MSU/Mt. Sterling.

Mt. Sterling Office Address:

MSU/Mt. Sterling Campus
3400 Indian Mound Dr
Mt. Sterling, KY 40353
Phone: 859-499-0780
Email: 
j.groeber@moreheadstate.edu