M.C. “Terry” Hokenstad, PhD, MSW
M.C. “Terry” Hokenstad is the Ralph S. and Dorothy P. Schmitt Professor
at the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, Case Western Reserve
University, in Cleveland, Ohio. He also serves as professor of international
health in the School of Medicine. Dr. Hokenstad’s prior positions included
dean and PhD program chair at Case Western Reserve University, and director
of the School of Social Work, Western Michigan University, in Kalamazoo,
Michigan.
Long active in international organizations, Dr. Hokenstad serves as
a consultant to the United Nations. He was a member of the U.N. Technical
Committee for the Second World Assembly on Aging in 2002; has been president
of the North American and Caribbean Region of the International Association
of Schools of Social Work (IASSW); and served as both treasurer and membership
secretary of IASSW. At the national level, he has been president of
the Council on Social Work Education and chair of the International Committee
for the National Association of Social Workers, and has also served as
a member of the board of trustees for the National Council on Aging and
the National Conference on Social Welfare.
Dr. Hokenstad has written extensively on international themes, has served
as editor-in-chief of the International Social Work Journal, and
co-editor of special issues for the journals of International Aging, Social
Policy and Administration, Sociology and Social Welfare, and Applied
Social Sciences. His publications include five books¾including Issues
in International Social Work: Global Challenges for a New Century and Gerontological
Social Work: International Perspectives¾and
numerous articles, chapters and monographs in the fields of comparative
social welfare, care of the elderly, social work practice, and education.
A Fulbright research scholar at the Institute of Applied Social Research
in Oslo, Norway, Dr. Hokenstad has also been a visiting scholar at the
National Institute of Social Work, in London, and a senior Fulbright
lecturer at Stockholm University, in Sweden. He taught and carried out
research as a Canterbury fellow at the University of Canterbury in New
Zealand, and as an academic visitor at the London School of Economics. Dr.
Hokenstad has led delegations of social workers and social work educators
to China, Japan, Russia, and South Africa, and has lectured in those
countries, as well as in India and throughout Europe. In addition, he
also worked with governmental agencies and universities in Canada, Hungary,
the Philippines, Sweden, and the United States in the establishment and
evaluation of PhD programs in social policy and social work¾a
central focus throughout his career.
Born in Nebraska, Dr. Hokenstad earned his bachelor’s degree, summa
cum laude, at Augustana College in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and his
MSW from Columbia University, where he majored in community organization
and social casework. He received his PhD from the Florence Heller Graduate
School for Advanced Studies in Social Welfare, at Brandeis University,
and holds a Certificate in Educational Management from Harvard University.
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