Waldo E. Johnson, Jr., PhD

The University of Chicago
School of Social Service Administration

Publications

  • Johnson, Waldo E. In press. Masculinity and sexual identity: Making meaning of pa­ternal identity among young African American males. Journal of African American Men.
  • Johnson, Waldo E., and James McKinney. In press. Transcending individual achieve­ment and organizational pursuits: A twentieth century public policy framework for African Americans. In Alpha Phi Alpha and the Crisis of Organizational Identity: A Case Study Within Black Greekdom, Gregory S. Parks and Stefan M. Bradley, eds. University Press of Kentucky.
  • Johnson, Waldo E., Jeffrey Shears, and Armon R. Perry. In press. Paternal involvement among African American fathers: Evidence from the early Head Start and Fragile Families and Child Well-being study. Research on Social Work Practice.
  • Lindau, Stacy, Jennifer Makelarski, Marshall Chin, Shane Desautels, Daniel Johnson, Waldo E. Johnson, Doriane Miller, Susan Peters, Connie Robinson, John Sch­neider, Florence Thicklin, Natalie Watson, Marcus Wolfe, and Eric Whitaker. 2011. Building Community-Engaged Health Research and Discovery Infrastructure on the South Side of Chicago: Science in Service to Community Priorities. Preventive Medicine. March-April; 52(3-4); 200-7. 
  • Johnson, Waldo E., ed. 2010. Social work with African American males: Health, mental health, and social policy. New York: Oxford.
  • Johnson, Waldo E., David Pate, and Jarvis Givens. 2010. Big boys don’t cry, black boys don’t feel: The intersection of shame and worry on community violence and the social construction of masculinity among African American males - The case of Derrion Albert. In Changing Places: How Communities Will Improve the Health of Boys of Color, Christopher F. Edley, Jr., and Jorge Ruiz de Velasco, eds. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • Tsoi-A-Fatt, Rhonda, Waldo E. Johnson, and David Pater. 2010. We dream a world: The 2025 vision for America’s black men and boys. Available at http://www.2025BMB.org.
  • Perry, R., Chien, A., Walker, W., Fisher, T. and Waldo E. Johnson. 2009. African American Adolescent Males’ Views on Doctors and the Healthcare System. Journal of the National Medical Association April. 102(4); 312-20.
  • Ravenell, Joseph E., Eric E. Whitaker, and Waldo E. Johnson. 2008. According to him: Barriers to healthcare among African American men. Journal of National Medical Association 100(10): 434-45.
  • Johnson, Waldo E. 2007. Working with marginalized and minority men. In International Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities, Vol. 1. Michael Flood, Judith Kegan Gardiner, Bob Pease, and Keith Pringle, eds. London: Routledge.
  • Johnson, Waldo E., and Wayne L. Salter. 2006. Paternity disestablishment, father in­volvement and the best interest of the child: Lessons from child welfare and fam­ily law. Paper presented at the Emerging Issues in Paternity Symposium. Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Ser­vices.
  • Ravenell, Joseph E., Waldo E. Johnson, and Eric E. Whitaker. 2006. African American men’s perceptions of health: A focus group study. Journal of National Medical Association 98(4): 544-50.
  • Johnson, Waldo E. 2005. Review of The promise keepers: Servants, soldiers and godly men, by John P. Bartkowski. Social Service Review 79(3): 564-66. 
  • Johnson,Waldo E., and Vaughn D. Bryant. 2005. Unwed African American fathers’ par­ticipation in child welfare permanency planning: Case workers’ perspectives. In Child welfare revisited: An Africentric perspective, ed. Joyce C. Everett, Sandra S. Chipungu, and Bogart R. Leashore, 169-196. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press. 
  • O’Donnell, John M., Waldo E. Johnson, Lisa Easley D’Aunno, and Helen L. Thornton. 2005. Fathers in child welfare: Caseworkers’ perspectives. Child Welfare 84(3): 387­-414. 
  • Pate, D., Waldo E. Johnson, and Mark Turner. 2005. Strengths and vulnerabilities of low income married parents. Paper presented at the Strengthening Healthy Marriage Initiative, Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation. 
  • Currence, Princess L.J., and Waldo E. Johnson. 2003. The negative implications of in­carceration on black fathers. African American Research Perspectives 9(1): 24-32. 
  • Johnson, Waldo E. 2003. Conceptualization and measurement of positive healthy cou­ple relationships. Paper presented at the Measurement Issues in Family Demog­raphy Conference, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Family and Child Well-Being Research Network, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families; The Federal Interagency Fo­rum on Child and Family Statistics, and the Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, November 13-14, 2003, in Bethesda, MD. J
  • Johnson, Waldo E. 2002. Time out of bound: High school completion and work prepa­ration among urban, poor, unwed African American fathers. In African American education: Race, community, inequality and achievement -A tribute to Edgar G. Epps, ed. Walter R. Allen, Margaret Beale Spencer, and Carla O’Connor, 229-258. UK: Elsevier/ JAI Press. 
  • Johnson, Waldo E. 2002. Social work strategies for sustaining paternal involvement among unwed fathers: Insights from field research. Professional Development: The International Journal of Continuing Social Work Education 4(3)/5(1): 70-83.

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