Dr. Howard Altstein, Professor Mailing Information: | Contact Information: | University of Maryland | Phone: (410) 706.7839 | School of Social Work | Fax: (410) 706.0273 | 525 West Redwood Street | E-mail: haltstei@ssw.umaryland.edu | Baltimore, Maryland 21201 | Room: 3E11 |
Education: | MSW, New York University | PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana |
Expertise and Research Interests: | Adoption |
Honors and Awards: | 1995, Fulbright Research/Lecture Award |
Recent Publications: | Adoption Across Borders: Serving The Children In Transracial and Intercountry Adoptions, (with Rita James Simon) Roman and Littlefield, 2000 | Does Family Preservation Serve A Child's Best Interests? (with Ruth McRoy), Georgetown University Press, 2000 | "Disclosure May Hurt Adoptions", OPED, Baltimore Sun, June 22, 2000, p. 19. | "Love not enough for some adopted", OPED Baltimore Sun, November 8, 2000, p. 35. Adoption, Race and Identity: From Infancy To Young Adulthood, Second edition(with Rita James Simon), Transaction Publishers, 2001 | “Multi-Ethnic Placement Act (MEPA) and Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA): Impact on Minority Children Awaiting Adoption”, Adoptions Together, Baltimore, MD., December 11, 2002. | Global Perspectives on Social Issues, Marriage and Divorce (with Rita James Simon), Lexington Books, 2003 | “Across Borders: Intercountry Adoption”, The University of North Carolina, School of Law, Conference on Race, Gender and Ethnicity: Adoption in the 21st Century: Redefining The Nuclear Family, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, February 28-March 1, 2003. | “Transnational Adoption”, Montgomery College, Rockville, MD, Title VIA Internationalizing Curricula, World Migration, March 10, 2003 | “For Adoption, Leave Race Out of the Discussion”, OPED Baltimore Sun, January 25, 2006, p. 15 |
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