Faculty Profile

Suzanne England, MSW, PhD, MBA

Professor of Social Work; Dean
Curriculum Vitae
suzanne.england@nyu.edu | (212) 998-5959

bio

Suzanne England has been dean of social work at NYU since November 2001. Prior to coming to NYU, she was Dean of the school of social work at Tulane University for seven years. While at Tulane, she oversaw the complete reformulation of the MSW program, resulting in an innovative program focusing on race, poverty, and community-based clinical practice that positioned the School for its central role in Tulane’s post-Katrina Academic Renewal Plan.

Before joining Tulane, Dr. England was Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the College of Associated Health Professions at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her social work career spans nearly 35 years, encompassing direct practice in Head Start, parent education, community and program development, health promotion and disease prevention, teaching, higher education administration, and research.

Her current scholarly interests include the use of new media in professional education, assessment of learning outcomes, and creating and managing change in social work education. She continues her presentation and publishing activities; in February 2006, she co-presented a paper at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science in San Antonio, TX (“Driving Miss Daisy: Negotiating difference and intimacy in domestic space.”).

Her publications have focused on the ways that social policy and the organization of health care affect families with ill or disabled members, and include the analysis of literary, biographical, and clinical narratives on illness, disability, and caregiving.

Suzanne England's Social Work Education Webpage

selected publications

England, S.E., Ganzer, C., & Tosone, C. (in press). Storying sadness: Figurative and prosaic representations of depression in the writings of Sylvia Plath, Louise Glück, and Tracy Thompson. In H. Clark (Ed.), Depression and narrative: Telling the dark. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.
England, S.E., Ganzer, C., Perez-Foster, R., & Tosone, C. (2006). ‘The speech of the suffering soul’: Four readings of William Styron’s Darkness Visible. Psychoanalytic Social Work, 13 (1), 1-19. An earlier version appears in the Proceedings of Narrative Matters 2004: An interdisciplinary conference on narrative perspectives, approaches, and issues across the humanities and social sciences, May 22, 2004.
Kreutziger, S.S., Ager, R., Lewis, J.S., & England, S.E. (2001). A critical look at a contemporary welfare-to-work program in the light of the historic settlement ideal. Journal of Community Practice, 9 (2), 49-69.
England, S.E. (1995). Pica. Reflections: A Journal for the Helping Professions. 1, 24-31.
England, S.E. & Ganzer, C. (1994). The micropolitics of elder care in Memento Mori, Diary of a Good Neighbor, and A Taste for Death. International Journal of Health Services. 24 (2), 355-369.
Ganzer, C. & England, S.E. (1994). Alzheimer's care and use of services: Generating practice concepts from empirical findings and narratives. Health and Social Work. 19 (3), 174-181.
Linsk, N.L., Keigher, S.M., Simon-Rusinowitz, L. & England, S.E. (1992). Wages for caring: An examination of policies to compensate family caregiving. New York: Preager Publishing.
England, S.E. (1994). What to do about Grandmother? Employer policies and elder care. Journal of the Korean Social Policy Institute, 6, 363-390.
Linsk, N.L., Keigher, S.M., England, S.E. & Simon-Rusinowitz, L. (1995). Compensation of family care for the elderly. In R.A. Kane, R. Dubrof, & J. Penrod (Eds.), Family caregiving in a caring society: Policy perspectives (pp. 64-69). Newberry Park, CA: Sage
England, S.E. & Ganzer, C. (July/August 1993). The relationships that drive Miss Daisy. Aging Today (p. 12). San Francisco, CA: American Society on Aging.
England, S.E. & The UIC Collective for the Study of Narratives on Family Care. (1993). Moral reasoning and Alzheimer's care: Exploring complex weavings through literature. Journal of Aging Studies, 7 (4), 409-421.
England, S.E. (1993). Modeling theory from fiction and autobiography. In C. K. Reissman (Ed.), Qualitative studies in social work (pp. 190-213). Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications.
England, S.E. & Ganzer, C. (1992). The many faces of loss: Autobiography and the Alzheimer's experience. Illness, Crises, and Loss: Multidisciplinary Linkages, 2 (2), 13-21.
England, S.E. & Naulleau B.T. (1991). Women, work, and elder care: The family and medical leave debate. Women & Politics, 11 (2), 91-107.
England, S.E. (1990). Family leave policies and gender justice. Affilia: Journal of Women in Social Work, 5 (2), 8-24.
England, S.E., Linsk, N.L., Simon Rusinowitz, L, & Keigher, S.M. (1990). Paying kin for care: Agency barriers to formalizing informal care. Journal of Aging and Social Policy, 2 (2), 63-86.
England, S.E., Linsk, N.L., Simon Rusinowitz, L., & Keigher, S.M. (1990). Paid family caregiving and the market view of home care: Agency perspectives. Journal of Health and Social Policy, 12, 31-53.
England, S.E. & Linsk, N.L. (1989). Paid to care for their own: A report on a community care program that permits relatives to be hired to provide care. Home Health Care Services Quarterly, 10 (1/2), 61-71.
England, S.E., Keigher, S.M., Miller B., & Linsk N.L. (1987). Community care policies and gender justice. International Journal of Health Services. 17 (22), 217-232. Also in C. Estes. & M. Minkler (Eds.) (1990). Critical perspectives on aging: The political and moral economy of growing old (pp. 227-244). Amityville, NY: Baywood Pubs. Also In Fee and Kreiger (Eds.) (1989). Women's health, politics and power: Essays on sex, gender, medicine and public health (pp. 97-114). Amityville, NY: Baywood Pubs. Also translated into Korean and reprinted in the Journal of the Korean Social Policy Institute, (1989), 1,(1).