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Ramapo College Of New Jersey
505 Ramapo Valley Rd
Mahwah, NJ 07430


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Phone: 201-684-7649
Website:
e-mail: mkahn@ramapo.edu

 

Office: G-229
Office Hrs: M R 1:00-6:00

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MITCHELL KAHN

PROFESSOR OF SOCIAL WORK
B.A., M.S.W.

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Year Joined RCNJ: 1971

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).
 

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