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Elizabeth L. Beck, Associate Professor and Director of The Center for Collaborative Social Work

ebeck@gsu.edu
Phone: 404-413-1056
Fax: 404-413-1075
Office Location:  Urban Life Building, Suite 1250

EDUCATION

Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh.
M.S.W., University of Pittsburgh.

PRIMARY RESEARCH INTERESTS

Primary research interests include community practice, forensic social work with an emphasis on the death penalty and neighborhood effects on children’s development, as well as restorative justice.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
     Book

  • Beck, E., Britto, S, Andrews, A. (2007) In the Shadow of Death: Restorative Justice and Death Row Families. New York: Oxford University Press

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    Invited Law Review
  • Beck, E., Sims Blackwell, B., Leonard, P., & Mears, M. ( 2003). Seeking sanctuary: Interviews with family members of capital defendants. The Cornell Law Review, 88, 382-418

SELECTED PUBLISHED JOURNAL ARTICLES

  • Jones, S., & Beck, E. (2007). The role of disenfranchised grief and nonfinite loss in the psychological distress of family members of  death row inmates. Omega Journal of Death and Dying, 54, 281-299.
  • Beck, E., & Brittos, S. (2006) Using feminist methods and restorative justice to interview capital offenders’ family members. AFFILIA, 21 59-70
  • Ohmer, M., & Beck, E. (2006).  Citizen Participation in Neighborhood Organizations in Poor Communities and Its Relationship to Neighborhood and Organizational Collective Efficacy.  Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, XXXIII(1), 179-202.
  • Wetheimer, M., Beck, E., Brooks, F., &Wolk, J. (2004) Community Partnerships: An innovative model of social work education and practice, Journal of Community Practice,12, 123-140.
  • Beck, E., Dorsey, E., & Stutters, A. (2003) The women’s suffrage movement: Lessons for social action.  The Journal of Community Practice, 11, 13-34
  • Beck, E., Williams, I., Hope., L., & Park., W. (2002) An intersectional model: exploring gender with ethnic and cultural diversity. Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Social Work,10 (4) 63-80.
  • Beck, E., &  Eichler, M. (2000). Consensus organizing: A practice model for community building. Journal of Community Practice, 8, 87-102.
  • Beck, E., Whitley, D., & Wolk, James (1999). Perspectives about poverty: Views from the Georgia General Assembly. Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, 24, 87-104. 
  • Whitley, D., Beck, E., & Rutkowski, R. (1999).  Living with Rheumatoid Arthritis: The family perspective.  Health and Social Work,29, 79-96.
  • Beck, E. (1998). Prevention and intervention programming: Lessons from an afterschool program. Urban Review: Issues and ideas in Public Education, 31, 107-124.

COURSES TAUGHT

  • Foundations of Community Partnership
  • Social Welfare History
  • Social Welfare Policy
  • Introduction to Women’s Studies
  • Feminist Theory

SELECTED FUNDED GRANTS

  • Beck, E. (2006) Georgia Project Victim Outreach, JEHT Foundation. $477,000.
  • Warner, B, Beck, E. and Ohmer, M (2006).  Developing a Training Program to Facilitate Collective Efficacy Team Grant. Georgia State University, Office of Sponsored Program, $ 15,000
  • Beck E. (2005) Evaluation of Access and Visitation Program. Georgia Department of Human Services ($40,000)
  • Beck, E and Lyons, P. (2005). Child Fatality Review. Georgia Child Fatality Review Team ($7,000)
  • Beck, E. (2004). ACCESS-IDA an evaluation. Atlanta Cooperative Development Corporation. ($40,000).
  • Beck, E. (1999). Neighborhood Development and Leaving Something Behind. Community Housing Resource Center. ($3,000).

COMMUNITY SERVICE

  • Expert Witness and Mitigation Specialist:  Federal Defender, Georgia Resource Center, Southern Center for Human Rights, Georgia Justice Project. 
  • Principal Investigator. Let every voice be heard: The status of women and girls in Atlanta. Atlanta Women’s Foundation (pp. 30). 2001.
Elizabeth Beck