Gina Miranda Samuels, PhD
Professor; Faculty Director, Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture
The University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
Gina E. Miranda Samuels is a Professor at the University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice. She has been named faculty director of the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture, effective September 1, 2022. Her scholarly interests include transracial adoption, mixed race and multiethnic identity formation, critical and interpretive research methods, and the development of relational, kinship, and cultural ties among young adults whose childhoods are shaped by displacements caused by foster care, adoption, and home loss.
Professor Miranda Samuels received her M.S.S.W and Ph.D. in Social Work and Social Welfare at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she received a Council on Social Work Education Minority research fellowship funded through the National Institute of Mental Health. She has practiced in the areas of child welfare, juvenile probation, Afrocentric community- and school-based social work, and family-based group therapy with youth and young adults.
