Miriam Dinerman

Miriam Dinerman received her Ph.D. and M.S.W. from Columbia University and taught social welfare, social work policy and history at Rutgers University from 1968 until she retired in 1999. Since then she has served as Editor in Chief of the Affilia Journal of Women and Social Work, now based at Yeshiva University’s School of Social Work.

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