Issues in International Social Work

Global Challenges for a New Century

M. C. Hokenstad, PhD, is the Ralph S. and Dorothy P. Schmitt Professor in the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences and professor of International Health in the School of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University. He has long been active in international organizations and currently serves as membership secretary of the International Association of Schools of Social Work and as a member of the United Nations Non-Governmental Committee on Aging. Dr. Hokenstad has been editor-in-chief of the International Social Work Journal and has published extensively in the fields of international social welfare, social gerontology, and social work education. His books include Participation in Teaching and Learning: An Idea Book for Social Work Educators (with Barry Rubgy, 1977), Linking Health Care and Social Services (with Roger Rituo, 1982), Gerontological Social Work: International Perspectives (with Katherine Kendall, 1988), and Profiles in International Social Work (with James Midgley and S. K. Khinduka, 1992). He has received two Fulbright Awards for teaching and research in Scandinavia and has been a visiting professor and program consultant at several universities in Europe and Asia.

James Midgley, PhD, is the Harry and Riva Specht Professor of Public Social Services and dean of the School of Social Welfare at the University of California at Berkeley. He has published widely on international social work, social development, and social policy. His major books include Professional Imperialism: Social Work in the Third World (1961); Social Security, Inequality, and the Third World (1984), Comparative Social Policy and the Third World (with Stewart MacPherson, 1987), Profiles in International Social Work (with M. C. Hokenstad and S. K. Kinduka, 1992), Social Development: The Development Perspective in Social Welfare (1995) and Social Welfare in Global Context (1997). He has also contributed to many leading social policy, social work, and development journal studies.