Kisun Nam, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Division of Social Work Office: Mariposal Hall 5029 Phone: 916.278.7096 Email: kisun.nam@csus.edu

Professional Degree

Ph.D., Social Welfare, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2008

MSSW, Univerisity of Wisconsin-Madison, 2003

MA, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea, 2001

BA, Seoul National Univerisity, Republic of Korea, 1996

Publications

Nam, Kisun, Maria Cancian, & Daniel R. Meyer. 2009. "How Program Participants Learn Program Rules: Implications for Implementation and Evaluation." Social Service Review 83(1):53-78. Link

Meyer, Daniel R., Maria Cancian, & Kisun Nam. 2007. "Welfare and Child Support Program Knowledge Gaps Reduce Program Effectiveness." Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 26(3):575-97. Link

Bartfeld, Judi & Kisun Nam. 2007. "The Impact of Child Support on Food Security Among Low-Income Single-Mother Households." Report to the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development, December. Institute for Research on Poverty, Madison.

Research Interests

poverty; welfare, child support, and single-mother families; public assistance programs; food insecurity; program participants’ knowledge about the rules; public policy analysis; program evaluation

Courses

SWRK110 Statistics and Research for Social Workers (undergraduate)

SWRK111 Introduction to Research Methods and Program Evaluation (undergraduate)

SWRK210 Methods of Social Research (MSW)

Kisun Nam's CV

Last updated: September 11, 2014