Barbara Simon

Barbara Levy Simon taught in the master’s and doctoral program at CSSW from 1986-2019. Her books include Never-married Women (1987) Temple University Press; The Empowerment Tradition in American Social Work: A History (1994) Columbia University Press; and The Columbia Guide to Social Work Writing (2012), co-edited with Warren Green – Columbia University Press. Her research focuses on the historical interplay between social movements and the profession of social work in the U.S. Three of her more recent historical publications are:

  • “A Microhistory of Cross-Class Feminism in New York City,1907–1911: The Activism of Carola Woerishoffer,” (2023), Affilia: Feminist Inquiry in Social Work, 38(1), 40-54.
  • “Berlin’s municipal socialism: A transatlantic muse for Mary Simkhovitch and New York City,” (2020), Chapter 3, 35-50 in The Settlement House Movement Revisited: A Transnational History, edited by John Gal & Stefan Kongeter, Policy Press.
  • “Sense and sensibility: Dual  knowledge  bases   of Greenwich House, NYC,1902–1920,” Qualitative Social Work (2018), Vol. 17(6) 814–831.

Simon serves as the Book Review Editor of Affilia: Feminist Inquiry in Social Work since 2017.