Dr. Mimi Chapman
President (2024-2026)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Dr. Mimi Chapman is the Frank J. Daniels Chair and Professor at the UNC Chapel Hill School of Social Work. She currently serves as the Associate Dean for Doctoral Education. She joined the UNC faculty in 2001. Her research interests span child and adolescent well-being, particularly among new immigrant families. She has developed arts-based interventions aimed at decreasing implicit and explicit bias among “high intensity professionals” such as public-school teachers and health care providers, work that has garnered media attention in outlets such as National Public Radio and the New York Times. Her global work in China used photovoice to understand mother’s experiences of in-country migration. She worked with Chinese colleagues to examine the re-emergence of social work and currently collaborates with colleagues to understand the perspectives of youth in the Galapagos Islands. Recent work has focused on essential workers of color to understand their coping patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic. She has been funded by the William T. Grant Foundation, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the National Institutes of Health among others. Dr. Chapman is a fellow of the Society for Social Work Research and serves as President of the Group for the Advancement of Doctoral Education in Social Work (GADE). In 2016, Dr. Chapman received the Edward Kidder Graham Award, one of UNC’s highest honors. She was elected Chair of the General Faculty of UNC Chapel Hill in April of 2020 for a three-year term which ended in June of 2023.
 

2022-2024: Dr. Denise Burnette
Virginia Commonwealth University

2021-2022: Dr. G. Lawrence Farmer & Dr. Julia R. Henly
Fordham University / The University of Chicago

2019-2021: Dr. Mo Yee Lee
The Ohio State University

2017-2019: Dr. Cynthia G. S. Franklin
The University of Texas at Austin

2015-2017: Dr. Elizabeth (Liz) Lightfoot
University of Minnesota

2013-2015: Dr. Theresa Early
The Ohio State University

2012-2013: Dr. Kia J. Bentley
Virginia Commonwealth University

2009-2011: Dr. Barbara Rittner
University at Buffalo

2006-2008: Dr. Paul H. Stuart
Florida International University

2004-2006: Dr. Jeane Anastas
New York University

2000-2003: Dr. Rowena G. Wilson
Norfolk State University

1997-1999: Dr. Ann Nichols-Casebolt
Virginia Commonwealth University

1993-1995: Dr. Enola K. Proctor
Washington University in St. Louis

1992-1993: Dr. Sheila B. Kamerman
Columbia University

1989-1991: Dr. Richard Estes
University of Pennsylvania

1985-1988: Dr. Barbara K. Shore †
University of Pittsburgh

1981-1983: Dr. Elizabeth Timberlake
The Catholic University of America

1978: Dr. Aaron Rosen †
Washington University in St. Louis 

*Prior to 2015, the president position was chair of the Steering Committee.