Katherine S. Van Wormer

Katherine van Wormer, MSSW, Ph.D., grew up in New Orleans, taught English in Northern Ireland and is Professor Emerita of Social Work at the University of Northern Iowa. She worked extensively in the field of substance abuse counseling in Washington State and Norway. Dr. van Wormer has authored or co-authored 15 books. Her most recent contributions are Addiction Treatment: A Strengths Perspective, 5th ed. (Cengage), Women and the Criminal Justice System: Gender, Race, and Class (Routledge, 5th ed.), two volumes of Human Behavior and the Social Environment, Micro and Macro Levels (Oxford University Press), and Death by Domestic Violence: Preventing the Murders and the Murder-Suicides (Praeger) Working with Female Offenders: A Gender Sensitive Approach (Wiley), Restorative Justice Today (SAGE), Confronting Oppression, Restoring Justice (CSWE). Her historical collection of Jim Crow narratives is, in her opinion, her most significant contribution to sociological literature. This is The Maid Narratives: Black Domestics and White Families in the Jim Crow South (LSU Press). See book photos of maids' book at The Maid Narratives Facebook. Van Wormer now lives in Madison, Wisconsin.