Melinda Madew Editor

Melinda Madew is Professor in International Social Work at the Protestant University of Applied Sciences Ludwigsburg, Germany and a Research Associate of the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.  She serves as Board Member of the European Social Work Research Association. Her teaching and research are in the areas of gender politics, postcolonial social work and indigenous knowledge and practice in community organizing.  She has served as education and research consultant for international development organizations. She conceptualized and implemented international projects under the auspices of European Union educational programs for North-South university collaboration. 

Marcin Boryczko is an associate professor at the University of Gdańsk, Poland, where he teaches Social Work on bachelors and masters levels. He serves in the board of several international and national associations such as the Polish Federation of Social Workers and Social Service Employees Unions (Polska Federacja Związków Zawodowych Pracowników Socjalnych i Pomocy Społecznej), the European Social Work Research Association, the International Advisory Board of the European Social Work Research Journal, and Polish representative in the International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW). His main research interests include social work education, critical social work theory, human rights, decolonization, neoliberal governmentality, and populism in Central Europe. 

Mark Lusk is a faculty member in the School of Social Work at New Mexico State University. Professor Lusk was Senior Fulbright Scholar at the Catholic University of Peru in Lima and also a Fulbright Research Scholar at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. He currently works with forced migrants and refugees from Central America and Mexico and related human rights issues. Dr. Lusk was founding director of the School of Social Work at Boise State University (Idaho) and has served as Associate Provost at the University of Georgia.