Simmons College School of Social Work
300 The Fenway, Boston, MA 02115
Office: Room: P-414H
Phone: 617/521-3911; FAX: 617/521-3980
Email: hamilton@simmons.edu
B.A.: Boston State College
M.S.W.: Simmons College, School of Social Work
Ph.D.: Smith College, School for Social Work
409: Dynamics of Racism and Oppression
411: Human Behavior in the Social Environment
424: Advanced Clinical Practice
484: Clinical Practice in Low Income Communities
545: Political Action & Strategies for Professional Social Workers
557: Clinical Practice with Immigrants and Refugees
654: Qualitative Research Methods
Dr. Johnnie Hamilton-Mason teaches Advanced Clinical Practice, HBSE, Leadership, Political Strategies for Clinical Social Workers Practice with Immigrants and Refugees, and Qualitative Research. In 2005 she co-founded the SSW's Pharnal Longus Academy for Undoing Racism. From 2001 through 2008, she served as a Harvard University W.E.B. DuBois Institute non-resident fellow in African American research. Her scholarship and research interests are primarily on African American Women and Families, the intersection of cross cultural theory and practice, and HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment. Since 2007 she has served as a Researcher at the University of Texas's Hurricane Katrina Researcher Collaborative. She has recent publications on "Psychoanalytic Theory: Responding to the Assessment Needs of People of Color?", "Using the Color of Fear as a Racial Identity Catalyst", "When the Floods of Compassion are not Enough: A Nation's and a City's Response to the Evacuees of Hurricane Katrina" and "children and Urban Poverty." With over twenty-one years of full-time teaching experience, she continues to enhance her teaching through clinical practice in urban agencies, as well as through consultation and education locally and internationally.
Dr. Hamilton-Mason presents papers regularly at national and international conferences on such topics as the dynamics of diversity; teaching and learning issues related to diversity; HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment in the United States and Africa; urban practice and urban leadership educational outcomes; cross cultural competency and racial identity theory in clinical work. In 1996, Dr. Hamilton-Mason was appointed as Co-Chair of the HIV/AIDS Task force for the National Association of Black Social Workers and currently serves as the Co-Chair of their Education Committee. Dr. Hamilton-Mason has also served for NASW as a delegate and is currently on the editorial board for Health and Social Work. She is currently is a Board of Trustees member for the AIDS Action Center in Boston and the Heritage Guild.
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