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Personal Summary

Janet Finn holds an MSW from Eastern Washington University and a Ph. D. in social work and anthropology from the University of Michigan. She has authored and edited numerous books and articles about community, women, childhood, youth, social justice, and transnational issues including  Just Practice: A Social Justice Approach to Social Work (2016); Gender Oppression and Globalization: Challenges for Social Work (2013); Mining Childhood: Growing Up in Butte, 1900-1960 (2012); Childhood, Youth, and Social Work in Transformation (2009); La Victoria: Rescatando su Historia (2007); Motherlode: Legacies of Women’s Lives and Labors in Butte, �����ؿ� (2005); Tracing the Veins: Of Copper, Culture, and Community from Butte to Chuquicamata (1998), and a special issue of Children and Youth Services Review entitled, “Place, Power, and Possibility: Rethinking Social Work with Children and Youth” (2013).

 

Education

Ph. D, University of Michigan, Social Work and Anthropology, 1995

MSW, Eastern Washington University, 1982

BA. Psychology, �����ؿ�, 1978

Courses Taught

Courses recently taught:

SW 323 Women and Social Action in the Americas

SW 465 Social Work in a Global Context

SW 505 Foundations of Social Work Theory and Practice

SW 511 HBSE II: Difference, Diversity, Oppression

SW 530 History of Social Welfare, Justice, and Change

SW 577 Concentration Integrative Seminar I

SW 578  Concentration Integrative Seminar II

SW 595 Human Rights and Social Justice on US Mexico Border

Teaching Experience

In addition to teaching in School of Social Work, Janet is also a faculty member in International Development Studies program.

Research Interests

Critical Social Work Theory

Social Work in a Global Context

Women and Social Action

Childhood, Youth, and Social Work

Community Ethnography

Selected Publications

Selected Articles and Book Chapters:

"Social justice" (2022). Oxford Encyclopedia of Social Work. Oxford University Press in collaboration with NASW Press.

"Participatory research, popular education and popular theater: Contributions to group work." (2017). (co-authored with J. Campana and M. Jacobson). New York: Guildford Press.

"Judging childhood." Children and Youth Services Review, 35: 1166-1173. In Place, Power and Possibility: Remaking Social Work with Children and Youth (co-edited with Lynn Nybell and Jeffrey Shook). Special Issue of Children and Youth Services Review, 35:8.

"Conceptualizing Gender Oppression, Globalization, and Implications for Social Work" (2013) Chapter 1 in Janet L. Finn, Tonya Evette Perry and Sharvari Karandikar (eds.). Gender Oppression and Globalization: challenges for Social Work. Alexandria, VA: CSWE Press.

"Globalization and Gender Oppression: Reflections on Teaching and Learning" (2013). Co-authored with Kara Mileski. Chapter 12 in Janet L. Finn, Tonya Evette Perry and Sharvari Karandikar (eds.). Gender Oppression and Globalization: challenges for Social Work. Alexandria, VA: CSWE Press.

"Children of the hill: Situating children in Butte's history." (2012) �����ؿ�, Magazine of Western History 62: 23-46.

"Unsettling feminisms" (2011) (with Sadye Logan). Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work.26: 345-348.

“Social work in �����ؿ� and beyond: Reflections on a century of practice.” (2011) (with Ryan Tolleson Knee).  �����ؿ� Professor 22(1):7-13.

"Love and Justice: A Silenced Language of Integrated Practice," (2010) Chapter in William Borden (Ed.) Reshaping theory in contemporary social work: Toward a critical pluralism in contemporary practice. New York: Columbia University Press.

The meaning and making of childhood in the era of globalization. (2010) (with Lynn Nybell and Jeffrey Shook). Children and Youth Services Review 32: 246-254.

Child's eye view, Chapter in L. Nybell, J. Shook, and J. Finn (Eds.) (2009) Childhood, Youth, and Social Work in Transformation. New York: Columbia University Press.

Making trouble,Chapter in L. Nybell, J. Shook, and J. Finn (Eds.) (2009) Childhood, Youth, and Social Work in Transformation. New York: Columbia University Press.

Love and justice: Ovadia's story, (with Ovadia Vargas) (2007) Women'sStudies Quarterly 35 (3/4):  30-37.

La Victoria: Claiming memory, history, and justice in a Santiago poblacion(2005). Journal of Community Practice, 13(30): 9-32.

“La Victoria comprometida: Reflections on neoliberalism from a Santiago población”. Review of Economic Anthropology: Markets and Market Liberalization – Ethnographic Perspectives. (2005). Edited by Norbert Dannhauser and Cynthia Werner. Amsterdam: Elsevier Press, pp. 207-240.

 

Publications

Books:

Just Practice Framework in Action: Contemporary Case Studies. (2022). New York: Oxford University Press.

Just Practice: A Social Justice Approach to Social Work. (2021). New York: Oxford University Press. (5th edition forthcoming November 2025)

Gender Oppression and Globalization: Challenges for Social Work (2013) (co-edited with Tonya Perry and Sharvari Karandikar). Alexandria, VA: Council on Social Work Education Press.

Mining Childhood: Growing up in Butte, �����ؿ�, 1900-1960 (2012) Helena: �����ؿ� Historical Society Press.

Childhood, Youth, and Social Work in Transformation (2009) (co-edited with Lynn Nybell and Jeffrey Shook), New York: Columbia University Press.

La Victoria: Rescatando su historia  (2007). (Collaborative project with G. Rodríguez, C. Nuñez, N. Nuñez, J. M. González, and J. Lagos). Santiago: Universidad Arcis, Social Memory Series.

Motherlode: Legacies of Women’s Lives and Labors in Butte, �����ؿ� (2005). (co-edited with Ellen Crain) Livingston, MT: Clark City Press.

Tracing the Veins: Of Copper, Culture, and Community from Butte to Chuquicamata. (1998) Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.

 

 

Affiliations

NASW, �����ؿ� Chapter

Affilia Women and Social Work Corporate Board, 2007-2013,

CSWE Council on the Role and Status of Women, 2006 - 2013

Council on Social Work Education

Professional Experience

 Janet has conducted a variety of community-based research projects in �����ؿ� and in Santiago, Chile.