Prof. Mark Courtney
Mark E. Courtney is the Samuel Deutsch Professor in the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago. His fields of special interest are child welfare policy and services, the connection between child welfare services and other institutions serving families living in poverty, the transition to adulthood for marginalized populations including children in state care, and the professionalization of social work. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare and the Society for Social Work and Research.
Dr. Courtney received the 2010 Peter W. Forsythe Award for leadership in public child welfare from National Association of Public Child Welfare Administrators and the 2015 Distinguished Career Achievement Award from the Society for Social Work and Research.
He obtained his MSW and PhD degrees from the School of Social Welfare at the University of California at Berkeley.