BIO

Mimi Abramovitz is a Professor of Social Policy at the Hunter School of Social Work and The Graduate Center, City University of New York. She has written extensively about women, poverty, and social welfare policy. She is the author of Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy From Colonial Times to the Present (1996, 2nd, Rev. ed.), Under Attack and Fighting Back: Women and Welfare in the United States2000 (2nd, rev. ed.) named an "Outstanding Book" on the subject of intolerance by the Myers Center For the Study of Human Rights (1997); The Dynamics of Social Welfare Policy (2004) (with Joel Blau) and Taxes ARE A Women’s Issue: Reframing the Debate (2006) (with Sandra Morgen). Dr. Abramovitz is currently writing a book titled Gendered Obligations: The History of Activism Among Poor and Working Class Women in the US Since 1900. She received the Council on Social Work Education's 2004 Award for Distinguished Recent Contributions in Social Work Education and the 1994 Award for Significant Contributions to Social Services and Political Activism from the NYC Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers. Widely used in sociology, women’s studies as well as social work classes, her work appears in all the major journals of her profession as well as in the popular press including The New York Times, The Washington Post The Nation, The Women's Review of Books, MS Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, The San Francisco Examiner and In These Times. She is a frequent keynote speaker at local, national, and international meetings and is regularly interviewed by the print and broadcast media.