Joe Douglas Minarik

Joe has been a practicing social worker for many years. His initial experience was as a VISTA volunteer in refugee resettlement followed by community mental health center crisis counseling in Central Ohio. His experience includes anti-racism and anti-oppression training and capacity building for coummunity groups and organizations. His teachig is based on social justice principles and the use of dialogue to address social disparities and injustices. His research,scholarship and praactice interests focus on social work as power work, and empowering community groups and nonprofit agencies to develop political and communications strategies leading to policy change.

BSSW: The Ohio State University School of Social Work Columbus, Ohio,

MSW, MPP: University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan, (Dual Masters degrees in social work and public policy, with an emphasis on macro social work practice)

PhD; Doctorate of Philosophy in Social Work: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, 2018 (Expert State Lobbyist use of Information )

Peer Reviewed Publications

Minarik, J. D. (2017. ) Privilege as Privileging: Making the Complex and Dynamic Nature of Privilege Accessible .Journal of Social Work Education, , 53 (1 ) ,52-65

Hess, J. Z., Rynczak, D., Minarik, J. D., & Landrum-Brown, J. (2010. ) Alternative settings for liberal-conservative exchange: Examining an undergraduate dialogue Course .Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, , 20 ,156-166

Schreiber, J., & Minarik, J. D. (2018. ) Simulated Clients in a Group Practice Course: Engaging Facilitation and Embodying “Diversity” .Journal of Social Work Education, , 54 (2 ) ,310-323

Book Chapter

Cooke, N. A. & Minarik, J. D. (2016 ) Linking LIS Graduate Study and Social Identity as a Social Justice Issue: Preparing Students for Critically Conscious Practice Progressive Community Action: Critical Theory and Social Justice in Library and Information Science .Sacramento, CA, Library Juice Press (Co-Author)

Academic - Room 172 of CAHS
3225 Eden Ave.
Cincinnati  Ohio, 45267-0001
Phone: 513-556-4685
minarijd@ucmail.uc.edu