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High-resolution photo available for download at www.lsu.edu/pa/photos LSU professor Brij Mohan was awarded the prestigious President’s Award by the National Association of Social Workers Louisiana chapter, or NASW-LA, on April 9. The President’s Award had only been awarded to one other person in NASW-LA’s history. Mohan is a professor of social work and former dean of the LSU School of Social Work. He is well-known internationally in the fields of social work and social sciences. The award was presented at a ceremony during the NASW-LA’s annual conference, held from 12:45 to 2 p.m. at the Baton Rouge Marriott. Vonnie Hawkins, secretary of the NASW-LA and Mohan’s former student, presented Mohan with the award. About the award The President’s Award recognizes the lifetime accomplishments and values of a Louisiana social worker. Based on a nomination, the NASW-LA Board of Directors selected Mohan because he demonstrates leadership qualities and effectively integrates experience with education, personally and professionally, in an effort to help people; shows a willingness to take risks for improved social services; is able to enlist public support for improved social services; and demonstrates the capacity to contribute to the public’s knowledge of social work in particular areas of expertise. Additional criteria for the award include repeated outstanding achievements, recognition beyond the social work profession, contributions of lasting impact, outstanding creativity, and the recipient must have made a demonstrable difference in the areas of advocacy for clients, impact on social policy, exceptional practice, program creation, administrative development and innovative research. For more information on the NASW-LA chapter, visit www.naswla.org. Mohan’s Biography LSU’s Office of Disability Services awarded Mohan “Most Accommodating Faculty/Staff Member” in March. Recently, Mohan was commissioned as editor-in-chief of Berkshire International Encyclopedia of Social Development, which will be published in 2009. As such, he will design, edit, select, solicit and write roughly 200 entries on issues and problems concerning global social development. The encyclopedia is expected to have a worldwide circulation and will be the field’s first and the most comprehensive and prestigious publication. His new book, “Fallacies of Development: Crises of Human and Social Development: The End of Hubris,” impressed series editor Christian Aspalter who selected and recommended Mohan to Berkshire Global Publishing. He presented his book at a prominent forum for the Council on Social Work Education’s Annual Program Meeting in San Francisco. In the book, Mohan focuses on the issues of paradoxy of development, social exclusions and new social development. The book has received praise from professors across the nation. Mohan is the founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of Comparative Social Welfare, for which he is preparing a 25th anniversary special volume due out this year. Publication was given to Taylor & Francis (Routledge), a leading international academic publisher. In addition, Mohan has authored 15 books and more than 200 articles and papers. As a guest columnist, Mohan contributes feature articles for the Web site www.devactivism.org. Mohan was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters from Mahatma Gandhi Kashi University for his contributions to the social sciences, his doctorate in social work from Lucknow University and his master’s in social work from Agra University. For more information, contact Mohan at 225-766-7631 or swmoha@lsu.edu. About The LSU School of Social Work The LSU School of Social Work has prepared social work practitioners, researchers, educators and policy advocates to meet the needs of diverse people and communities for 70 years. For more information on the school, visit www.socialwork.lsu.edu. -30- |
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