Dr. Joe Squillace

Dr. Joe Squillace, Ph.D., MSW, is an Associate Professor and Director of the Social Work program at the University of St. Mary of Leavenworth, Kansas, and has been in Social Work higher education for over 20 years. He is the author of numerous scholarly and advocacy publications covering social work education, health care access and Medicaid, and dental and mental health care for children. Most recently, he authored the book A History of the Poorhouse and Farm of Morgan County, Illinois (2017), which received a Certificate of Excellence in 2018 from the Illinois State Historical Society.

Between 2011 and 2020, he was the Director of the BSW Social Work department at MacMurray College. He received the Dewey Excellence in Teaching Award in 2017 from

MacMurray College. In 2011 and 2008, he received the Excellence in Teaching Award from the BSW and MSW student associations at Saint Louis University, where he taught from 2001-2011. In 2001, he received the Missouri Association for Social Welfare Advocate of the Year Award, St. Louis Chapter, and a Health Care Financing Administration Beneficiary Services Certificate of Merit in 2000. As a practicing social worker, he has been a policy analyst, advocate, lobbyist, nonprofit manager, and direct service practitioner.