JIM MARTIN, PHD

James (Jim) Martin is a tenured Professor of Social Work and Social Research at Bryn Mawr College. A Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker with more than forty years of social work practice, Jim’s scholarship, teaching, and public service focus on the well being of individuals, families and communities; his research and civic engagement address military and veteran populations. In 2009 Bryn Mawr awarded Jim the McPherson Fellowship for excellence in teaching, research, and service to the community. Jim has served as a member of Maryland’s Veterans Behavioral Health Advisory Committee, the Maryland Military Child Education Coalition Steering Committee, the Council on Social Work Education Veterans’ Mental Health Taskforce, and the National Advisory Board for the Center for Innovation and Research on Veterans and Military Families (CIR) at the University of Southern California. Jim has served three terms of elected office on the Board of Directors for the American Board of Examiners in Clinical Social Work and he is a founding member of the Board of Directors of the National Center for Clinical Social Work. Jim was the recipient of the 2014 University of Pittsburgh School of Social Work “Distinguished Alumni Award for Social Work Practice” and the 2015 Distinguished Alumni” Award from Boston College School of Social Work. A retired Army Colonel, Jim’s twenty-six year career in the Army Medical Department included clinical, research, as well as senior management (command) and policy assignments. Jim was the senior Social Work Officer in the Persian Gulf Theater of Operations during the first Gulf War.