School of Social Science and Human Services (SSHS)

Professor of Social Work

Year Joined RCNJ: 1971

Contact Information:

• Phone: (201) 684-7649
• E-mail: mkahn@ramapo.edu
• Office: G-229
• Office Hours: MR 11:30-1:00

Education:

• B.A., M.S.W.

Convening Group:

• Social Work

Courses Offered:

• History and Philosophy of Social Welfare
• Theory and Practice of Social Work III- Macro Practice
• Contemporary Social Policy
• Ideology and Film
• African-Americans in Film

Teaching Interest:

• Social Welfare History
• Community Organizing
• Social Policy
• Film Studies

Research Interest:

• Housing Policy
• Community Organization
• Social Welfare Policy
• Local History

Recent Publications:

Articles & Monographs:

• The NJTO: Still Fighting After All These Years. Global Tenant. April 2006
• Doing Political Social Work: My Sojourn. Book chapter in Linda Grobman, More Days in the Lives of Social Workers. Harrisburg, PA.: White Hat Publications, 2004.
• New Jersey Tenant Organizing Handbook (Hackensack, N.J.: NJTO, 3rd edition: 2004).

Book Reviews:

• Michael J. Brown. Building Powerful Community Organizations. Arlington,MA : Long Haul Press, 2006. Journal of Community Practice, 16 (1), 2008.
• J.S.Fuerst. When Public Housing Was Paradise: Building Community in Chicago. (Champaign-Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004). Shelterforce, Nov.-Dec. 2004, (Whole # 138). Reprinted in the Journal of Affordable Housing and Community Development Law. Spring 2005 (14:3).