Associate Professor
University of Georgia School of Social Work
Jane McPherson develops, evaluates, and advocates for human rights-based approaches to social work practice in the U.S. and around the world; and she is co-editor (along with Dr. Vjollca Krasniqi) of the related book, Human Rights in this Age of Uncertainty: Social Work Approaches and Practices from Southeast Europe (Springer, 2022). In the U.S., she conducts archival research exploring how local histories of charity and social work entwine with ideologies of white supremacy and capitalism, and asks questions about how these histories still echo in social work practice today. As an arts activist, McPherson was an organizer for One Million Bones, a nationwide anti-genocide initiative that created and laid one million handmade bones on the National Mall. A licensed clinical social worker (LCSW), McPherson worked for 20 years in child protection, bereavement, mental health, maternal-child health, and torture treatment before becoming a professor.
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