Sandra Butler University of Maine, Orono, ME, USA
Sandra S. Butler is a professor and the graduate coordinator in the School of Social Work at the University of Maine, where she has taught courses in social welfare policy for 25 years. She received her PhD from the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, in 1991, and her MSW from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1985. Her dissertation research involved a qualitative, longitudinal study of middle-aged, homeless women. She was a John A. Hartford Geriatric Social Work Faculty Scholar from 2001 to 2003, during which time she carried out a mixed-methods inquiry of the Senior Companion Program in a rural county in Maine. Her research often focuses on issues of income security and social welfare programs, and she frequently works in collaboration with the statewide advocacy organization, Maine Equal Justice Partners. She received a career award from the University of Maine Rising Tide Center in 2015.
