American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare

Jeanne C. Marsh, PhD

Active | Inducted in 2010

Bio

Jeanne C. Marsh is the George Herbert Jones Distinguished Service Professor Emerita in the University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy and Practice. Her work focuses on the delivery of integrated health and social services, addiction treatment and service delivery, social work practice and program decision-making.

Professor Marsh has held appointments in both the Crown Family School of Social Work (formerly School of Social Service Administration) as well as the Committee on Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago. She also has served as visiting professor at the London School of Economics, Clare Hall, Cambridge University and Sciences Po Paris. She publishes broadly on issues of integrated health and social services, addiction treatment services for women and families, knowledge utilization and professionalization processes in social work.

Awards and honors include:

Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2022-present)

Board member, American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare (2014-2017)

President, Society for Social Work and Research (2011-2013)

Service as editor-in-chief of Social Work, the journal of the National Association of Social Workers (2002-2005)

The National Association of Social Workers Award for Excellence in Social Work Research (1997)

Distinguished Alumni Award, University of Michigan School of Social Work (1987)

Professor Marsh graduated magna cum laude with a BA in Psychology from Michigan State University and completed the MSW, PhD and an Institute for Social Research Postdoctoral Fellowship – all at the University of Michigan.

https://ssa.uchicago.edu/ssascholars/j-marsh