Welcome Dr. Elizabeth Armstrong – New Assistant Professor of Social Work
We are pleased to welcome Dr. Elizabeth Armstrong as our new assistant professor of social work. Dr. Armstrong will teach courses on social work research and human behavior in the social environment. She will also be a MSW field seminar instructor. Dr. Armstrong graduated from the University of Michigan School of Social Work with a Ph.D. (2017) and MSW (2007). Dr. Armstrong also completed the University of Michigan Graduate Certificate in Women’s Studies. Dr. Armstrong’s research focuses on policy and practice with marginalized women, particularly those affected by both intimate partner violence and substance use. Her dissertation ( Bridging the Intimate Partner Violence and Alcohol and Other Drug Intervention Fields) used multiple methods to pinpoint factors that allow some organizations to address both issues together when most do not. More broadly, Dr. Armstrong is interested in how entrenched ideas about the nature of social problems shape resultant polices and services. As a doctoral student, Dr. Armstrong was a trainee at the University of Michigan Substance Abuse Research Center under a National Institutes of Health Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award training grant. Dr. Armstrong is also involved in ongoing projects with colleagues at the University of Michigan on experiences with divorce at mid-life and with colleagues at Rutgers University and the University of Michigan on decision-making practices among child protective services workers. Dr. Armstrong has direct practice experience with intimate partner violence survivors and individuals in the commercial sex trade. She has also been involved in community-based evaluation research for a program intended to reduce harms associated with high-risk sexual behavior and substance use among adolescent women.”
