Meet our Ph.D. Students
Meet our PhD Students
Selected bios of current students
Saige M. Addison
Saige Addison is a first year dual MSW / PhD student with evolving research interests. She has experience through interning at the county prosecutor’s office, a local library, the Alzheimer’s Association, and currently with the Rutgers University Center for Prevention Science.
Enoch Boafo Amponsah
Enoch Boafo Amponsah is a PhD student with the School of Social Work, Rutgers University. He has vast research and practice experience in issues of child welfare and family wellbeing. Majority of his research publications focuses on child maltreatment prevention, interpersonal violence and gender issues in low middle income countries. Prior to joining Rutgers, he obtained his masters in Evidence-Based Social Intervention and Policy Evaluation at the University of Oxford, UK.
Charles Chear
Charles Chear is a PhD candidate studying how and why poor people move, and the relationship between moving and socioeconomic conditions such as housing and work. Populations of interest include convenience store (‘bodega’) workers and Housing Choice Voucher (‘Section 8’) recipients. Prior to research, Charles was a social worker serving diverse populations and organizations in Massachusetts, Arizona, Tohono O’odham Nation, Pennsylvania, and Cambodia.
Ryan DiMeglio
Amal Killawi
Riley King
Lorraine Y. Howard
Courtney Hutchison
Hasan Johnson
Peixu Liu
Anais Mahone
Lauren Manley
Rebecca Martin
Camille McKenzie
Nicole Milano
Lucy Nonas-Barnes
Lena Moraa Obara
Natalie E. Pope
Shalyse Sangster
Clara Scher
Jenny Schrum
Jackie F. Stanmyre
Amanda Stroiman
Nora Sullivan
Nivedhitha Thiruvenkadam
Jose Ricardo Vargas Garcia
Yuhan Wei
Melanie Yu
Yan (Stella) Zhu
