RICHARD K. CAPUTO

Richard K. Caputo is currently a professor of Social Policy and Research at Yeshiva University’s Wurzweiler School of Social Work, where he teaches on the doctoral and master’s levels. Previously he has taught at Barry University’s School of Social Work and at University of Pennsylvania’s School of Social Work. Aside from teaching, Professor Caputo has been director for research and information systems at United Charities of Chicago, a research associate at the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago, and has held various positions in the mental health field, including assistant editor for the Journal of Mental Health Technology.

His main research interests focus on social welfare policy formation and analysis, particularly in regard to the working poor families, and child welfare, and employment and labor market conditions. Other topics he is interested in are the history, philosophy and the conceptual framework of social welfare, the development of the profession of social work, and social change, particularly in the areas of race and gender.

Some of his recent publications include Richard K. Caputo (2001), "The Intergenerational Transfer of Grandmother-Grandchild Coresidency," Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare, 28(1), 79-86; Richard K. Caputo (2000), "Multiculturalism and Social Justice in the United States: An Attempt to Reconcile the Irreconcilable within a Pragmatic Liberal Framework," Race, Gender & Class, 7(4), 161-182; Richard K. Caputo (2000), "Second-Generation Parenthood: A Panel Study of Grandmother and Grandchild Coresidency among Low-Income Families, 1967-1992," Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare, 27(3), 3-20; Richard K. Caputo (2000), "The Availability of Traditional and Family-Friendly Employee Benefits among a Cohort of Young Women, 1968-1995," Families in Society, 81, 422-436, Richard K. Caputo (2000), "Trends and Correlates of Coresidency among Black and White Grandmothers and Their Grandchildren: A Panel Study, 1967-1992," in B. Hayslip and R.S. Goldberg-Glen (Eds.), Grandparents Raising Grandchildren: Theoretical, Empirical, and Clinical Perspectives (pp. 351-367). New York: Springer Publishing Company; and Richard K. Caputo (1999) Advantage White and Male, Disadvantage Black and Female: Income Inequality, Economic Well-Being, and Economic Mobility in a Youth Cohort, 1979-1993 (Danbury, CT: Rutledge Press). In 1999 an article he co-authored with Mary Cianni, "Job Training Experiences of Black and White Women, 1970-1991," Human Resource Development Quarterly, Fall of 1997, won the Richard A. Swanson Award for Research Excellence by the Academy of Human Resource Development. He has also authored Welfare and Freedom American Style (2 vol.; Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1994 and 1991) that explains the federal government in Social Welfare from 1900 to 1980 and the Management and Information Systems in Human Services (New York: Haworth Press, 1988).

Professor Caputo holds a PhD from the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago, an MSW from Arizona State University, an MA in History from Iowa State University, and a BA in Sociology from Brooklyn College.

Yeshiva University
Wurzweiler School of Social Work
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