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Samantha Teixeira

Associate Professor

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Samantha Teixeira

Ph.D.

Contact

McGuinn Hall 219

Telephone: 617-552-0743

Email: samantha.teixeira@bc.edu

Education

  • B.A., University of New Hampshire
  • M.S.W., University of Pittsburgh
  • Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh

Research Interests

Social and Spatial Inequality, Community Based Participatory Research, Youth Empowerment, Neighborhood Effects

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Expertise

  • Disparities
  • Environmental Justice
  • Innovations in Research Methods
  • Macro Practice
CV or Resume

Profile

Samantha Teixeira, PhD, joined the 艾可直播in 2015. Her research focuses on how neighborhood environmental conditions affect youth and how youth can be engaged in creating solutions to environmental problems in their communities. She uses innovative, mixed methods with a focus on participatory approaches including community mapping, photography, and spatial analysis.

She has published on the topics of place-based community interventions that address neighborhood environmental disparities, youth-led participatory research, and environmental justice interventions and education. Samantha鈥檚 diverse practice experience includes work in child welfare and community development.

Dr. Teixeira is the recipient of prestigious awards including the Society for Social Work and Research Outstanding Dissertation Award (2015), and the Association for Community Organization and Social Administration (ACOSA) Emerging Scholar Award (2016). She is currently a member of the editorial boards of the Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal and the Journal of Community Practice.

Selected Publications

Teixeira, S., Hwang, D., Spielvogel, B., Cole, K., & Coley, R. (2020). Participatory photo mapping (PPM) to understand youths鈥� experiences in a public housing neighborhood preparing for redevelopment.听Housing Policy Debate. DOI: 10.1080/10511482.2020.1741422

Rao, S. &听Teixeira, S.听(2020). The Green New Deal: Social work's role in environmental justice policy.听Social Work, 65(2), 197-200. 听. ( ^ Equal Contributors)

Teixeira, S., Lombe, M., Figuereo, V., Chu, Y., Wang, K., Bartholomew, M., Rosales, R., Perez-Aponte, J., McRoy, R., Rambo, D., & Mayes, L. (2020). University and community agency partnerships: Implications for teaching, scholarship, and service.听Journal of Social Work Education,听

Teixeira, S., Mathias, J., & Krings, A. (2019). The future of environmental social work: Looking to community initiatives for models of prevention.听Journal of Community Practice, 27(3-4), 414-429,听

Sprague-Martinez, L., Richards-Schuster, K., Teixeira, S., & Augsberger, A. (2018). The power of prevention and youth voice: A strategy for social work to ensure healthy development for youth. Social Work, 63(2), 135-143. https://doi.org/10.1093/sw/swx059

Kravitz-Wirtz, N., Teixeira, S., Hajat, A., Woo, B., Crowder, K., & Takeuchi, D. (2018). Early-life air pollution exposure, neighborhood poverty, and childhood asthma in the United States: 1990-2014. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 15, p. 1114-1127.

Teixeira, S. (2018). Qualitative Geographic Information Systems (GIS): An untapped research approach for social work.听 Qualitative Social Work, 17(1), 9-23. doi: 10.1177/1473325016655203

Teixeira, S. & Gardner, R. (2017). Youth-led participatory photo mapping to understand urban environments. Children and Youth Services Review, 82, 246-253. https://doi-org.proxy.bc.edu/10.1016/j.childyouth.2017.09.033

Teixeira, S. & Hash, K. (2017). Tweeting macro practice: Social media in the social work classroom.听 Journal of Social Work Education, 53(4), 751-758.

Teixeira, S. & Zuberi, A. (2016). Mapping the racial inequality in place: Using youth perceptions to identify unequal exposure to neighborhood environmental hazards. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 13(9), 844. doi:10.3390/ijerph13090844

Teixeira, S. & Sing, E. (2016). Reclaim Northside: An environmental justice approach to address vacant land in Pittsburgh. Family and Community Health. 39(3), 207-215. doi: 10.1097/FCH.0000000000000107

Teixeira, S. & Krings, A. (2015). Sustainable social work: An environmental justice framework for social work education. Social Work Education, 34(5), 513-527. doi: 10.1080/02615479.2015.1063601

Teixeira, S. (2015). 鈥淚t seems like no one cares鈥�: Participatory photo mapping to understand youth perspectives on property vacancy. Journal of Adolescent Research, 30(3), 390-414. doi:10.1177/0743558414547098

Teixeira, S. & Wallace, J.M. (2013). Data driven organizing: A community-university partnership to address vacant and abandoned property. Journal of Community Practice, 21, 248-262.听

SELECTED FUNDING

2021-2026: National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) (Principal Investigator: $3,030,584)听Targeting Health Disparities through Housing Redevelopment: A Natural Experiment of Housing Quality, Stability, and Economic Integration. (NIH/NIMHD 1R01MD015729-01A1). Multi-method natural experiment of public housing redevelopment to address whether improving housing quality, limiting external displacement, and creating mixed-income communities improves physical, mental, and behavioral health.听Principal Investigators: Samantha Teixeira, Rebekah Levine Coley

Russell Sage Foundation and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (Co-P.I.: $25,916). "Moving Communities to Opportunity: Exploring Public Housing Redevelopment as a Strategy for Addressing Structural Barriers to Economic Mobility." Principal Investigators: Samantha Teixeira and Rebekah Levine Coley

Selected Appointments and Awards

Society for Social Work and Research Fellow (2021)

Association for Community Organization and Social Administration (ACOSA) Emerging Scholar Award (2016)

Society for Social Work and Research Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award (2015)

Marie O. Weil Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Journal of Community Practice (2014)

International Society for Child Indicators (ISCI) Child-Well Being Scholar (2014)

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