BUSSW Welcomes Two New Faculty Members

Robert D. Eschmann is completing his PhD at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration. Eschmann’s research focuses on social media and youth development, urban education reform, the geography of poverty, and adolescent experiences with violence, prejudice, and discrimination. His current work utilizes a sample of high achieving African American males in a violent Chicago neighborhood, and explores the relationship between deviant peer networks, informal social control, and social cohesion. Eschmann has also worked closely with the Woodlawn Children’s Promise Community around youth development program design and evaluation. He will join BUSSW’s Human Behavior faculty in the fall.

Judith Scott is completing her PhD in Child Study and Human Development at Tufts University; she has earned her MSW from Boston College and a Master’s in Public Policy from Tufts University. Scott’s research focuses on family- and race-based trauma among children and families across cultures and the effects on child mental health. Her dissertation research, funded by a Doris Duke Fellowship, focuses on childhood physical discipline and child maltreatment among African American families. Scott has also conducted studies on parental disciplinary responses to child noncompliance among racially diverse parents in high-risk communities and on how families prepare youth to deal with discrimination and police harassment. She will join the Clinical Practice Department at BUSSW in the fall.