Assistant Professor
Office location: SH 208
Phone: (818) 677-7630
Email: tuwana.wingfield@csun.edu
Biography
Tuwana T. Wingfield, Assistant Professor, joined the CSUN faculty in fall of 2020. Dr. Wingfield earned her PhD in Higher Education Administration from Illinois State University, her master’s degree in Social Work from The University of Chicago, School of Social Service Administration, and her Bachelor’s in Sociology from Purdue University. Her Licensed Clinical Social Work (LCSW) is from the State of Illinois.
Dr. Wingfield has 20 years of experience in social services and higher education at the micro and macro levels of practice. These experiences include early childhood education/Head Start, practice in schools from PreK-12, child welfare, non-profit community-based organizations, and higher education.
Dr. Wingfield has taught courses in introduction to social work, field education, practice with individuals and groups as well as research focused independent studies at the undergraduate and graduate level.
Dr. Wingfield presents at conferences in social work as well as education. She is the guest editor for the Critical Social Work Journal and served as a reviewer for an open access text Graduate Research Methods in Social Work: A Project-Based Approach. She serves as an advisory board member for Rasmussen College. She also consults with doctoral students on their dissertations.
Her areas of interest are Black feminism, Critical Race Theory, Critical Race Feminist Theory, culturally responsive education, culturally humility, social work field education, educational experiences of African American women and girls, identity development, and mentoring.
Publications:
Wingfield, T. T. & Adams, R. A. (2019). Reflections of two Black early career social work educators teaching mostly White students at PWI. Reflections, 25(1), 16-31.
Edmonds-Cady, C. & Wingfield, T. T. (2017). Social workers: Agents of change or agents of oppression. Social Work Education, 36(4), 430-442. doi10.1080/02615479.2017.1291802
Panels/Roundtables/Workshops:
Adams, R.D., Dyson, Y., Webb-Peoples, K., Wingfield, T.T. (accepted). Incivility in SWK Education: Reflections of Four Black Faculty Teaching at HWIs, has been accepted as a(n) Interactive Workshop. Paper to be presented at the CSWE 66th Annual Program Meeting, Annual Meeting, Denver, C.O.
Wingfield, T.T., Chalian, S. M. (2020, March). Learning from Our Past: Social Work Student Identity Development in Field Education. Paper to be presented at the 37th Annual Baccalaureate Program Directors (BPD) Conference, Annual Meeting, Birmingham, AL.
Wingfield, T. T., Walter, Q. L., Campbell, R. L. (2020, January). A Matter of Trust: Research Methodologies and Designs Honoring Black Women's Ways of Being & Knowing. Paper to be presented at the 24th Annual Conference of the Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR), Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.