Dr. Katherine Julia Morris
Assistant Teaching Professor
About
Katherine J. Morris, Ph.D., LCSW-C completed her doctoral degree at UMBC's Language, Literacy, and Culture. She received her Master's degree in Social Work from the University of Pennsylvania and completed her undergraduate degree in Psychology at the College of the Holy Cross. She spent several years working with individuals with substance dependence and severe and persistent mental illness. Currently, Katie is the Program Director for UMBC’s Baccalaureate Social Work Program at the Universities at Shady Grove.Research interests
Katie's dissertation explored the lived experiences of Latina women and their call to the social work profession through phenomenology. She is interested in helping students draw upon their lived experiences to cultivate essential social work skills like empathy, engagement, genuineness, and unconditional positive regard.Teaching interests
Katie is passionate about her work in the classroom and sees the importance of cultivating what students carry to the classroom and using the classroom space to teach and learn essential social work skills, knowledge. and values.Education
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Ph D, Language, Literacy, Culture
— UMBC (2021) Being called to social work: What Latina women carry
- MA, Social Work — University of Pennsylvania (2000)
- BA, Psychology — College of the Holy Cross (1996)