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Dr. Nicholas Smiar |
EDUCATION
- Doctorate of Philosophy - 1989
- Jane Addams College of Social Work, University of Illinois at Chicago
Dissertation – Poor Law and Poor Relief in Zurich, 1520-1530: A Study in Early Modern Social Welfare Policy - Master of Social Work, 1973
- Jane Addams College of Social Work, University of Illinois at Chicago
Specialization: Combined methods, psychiatric social work - Master of Arts, 1968
- The Divinity School, The University of Chicago
ABD: Dissertation title: The Ecclesiologyof Ulrich Zwingli: A Study in the Sociology of Religion (approved, 1969) - Bachelor of Arts, Classical Languages and Philosophy
- St. Meinrad College, St. Meinrad, IN
Thesis: The Classical Sources on the Eleusynian Mysteries (1964)
Dr. Smiar has fifteen years of post-MSW practice in child and family welfare, child and youth care work, administration, and consultation/ training. He has taught social work part time and full time since 1976. He joined this faculty in June 1989, and served as Chairperson of the department for seven years..
Dr. Smiar is active in international child and youth care
work and international social work, specializing in Switzerland, Germany,
the Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic, and the Republic of South Africa.
His areas of interest are social welfare history, community organization,
social welfare policy, child and youth care work, international social work, social work ethics, and risk management/safety enhancement in work with assaultive clients. He does frequent continuing education workshops in ethics and boundaries for social workers.
