Henry D'Souza, Ph.D.
- Grace Abbott School of Social Work, Professor
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Biography
Dr. Henry D’Souza earned his doctoral degree in social work and sociology from the University of Michigan in 1989 after emigrating from India, where he completed an MSW and worked as a community organizer and social work educator. He has been a faculty member at the Grace Abbott School of Social Work since 1989, rising to the rank of professor and serving as chair of the Graduate Program Committee and interim director. His teaching and research focus on research methods, social policy, and issues of class, race, gender, human rights, and social justice.Beyond academia, Dr. D’Souza holds a visiting professorship at the Management Center of Innsbruck in Austria and collaborates with the Gandhi-Mandela-Freire Fellowship Program through the Loyola College of Social Sciences in India. Committed to advocacy, he has served on the Nebraskans for Peace State Board since 1993. Additionally, he has been actively involved in university governance, serving four terms on the University of Nebraska Faculty Senate and being elected vice president twice.