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Paul Stein is a sociologist with a strong background in human service program development, counseling, and therapy. He has a decade of teaching experience at the undergraduate and graduate levels in the areas of sociology, social work, and education. He is a multidisciplinary scholar in social sciences, with teaching experience in several course areas. As a student at the Warner School, he has been a Rochester Telephone Company Scholar (1995), a Scandling Scholar (1996), and a Scandling Training Fellow (2000).
Before his arrival at the Warner School, Stein had more than a dozen years’ experience as a caseworker, social work supervisor, and therapist for groups and individuals. He has designed and implemented highly successful programs for the developmentally disabled, child maltreatment, and the aged, and is an experienced empirical researcher. His research interests include the role of nursing home culture in the lives and health of its elderly residents, the effects of intergenerational programming on both youth and elders, sociology of health and illness, and community-based action research.
Stein has been project director and co-principal investigator on numerous research projects and is currently principal investigator of a neighborhood-based initiative concerning wellness in aging. Stein teaches courses in human development, research methods, social justice, and sociology of education.
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