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Bret Weber

Ph.D., M.S.W., L.C.S.W.
  • Department Chair, Professor, Social Work

Contact Info

  • Email: bret.weber@UND.edu
  • Office: 701.777.3767
  • Dept: 701.777.2669

Office Address

Gillette Hall Room 2e
225 Centennial Drive Stop 7135
Grand Forks ND 58202-7135

Curriculum Vitae

  • Curriculum Vitae

Biography

Dr. Bret Weber has taught at the University of North Dakota since 2005, and for the Social Work Department since 2007.  He served two years as the Graduate Program Director, and currently serves as the department chair.  His research focuses on housing and homelessness issues especially in relation to urban policies.  He first came to social work as a community organizer and historian, engaging across all levels of practice and with historical studies.  Those studies included emphasis on War on Poverty programs, policy, and environmental history and environmental justice.  Along with Professor William Caraher, he has co-led the North Dakota Man Camp Project since shortly after the beginning of the state’s most recent oil boom.  That work has included a collaboration of archaeologists, architectural historians, and social workers seeking to understand the lives of those living in temporary workforce housing and the impacts of extractive booms on rural communities.  As a consequence of his interest in policy, since 2012, he has served on the Grand Forks City Council including co-chairmanship of the city’s legislative affairs committee.  He serves in leadership roles on the city’s Jobs Development Authority and Growth Fund Committee, and he also serves on the Board of Commissioners for the Grand Forks Housing Authority, the board of Red River Valley Community Action, and various other service roles in the community and profession.

Undergraduate Courses:

SWK 442 Social Policy

Graduate Courses:

SWK 502 and 528 Human Behavior and the Social Environment II

SWK 537 Policy as Practice

Policy

Housing and Homelessness

Environmental History and Justice

Urban Planning and Social Well-being

Resiliency and Family Violence

Policies and Attitudes related to Pandemics

Books             

Authored (non-juried)

      Caraher, W., Weber, B. (2017) The Bakken: An Archaeology of an Industrial Landscape.  Fargo, U.S: North Dakota State University Press.

Books Edited

     Barkdull, C. Fogel, S., & Weber B (Eds.). (2016) Environmental Justice: An Issue for Social Work Education and Practice. Oxford, UK: Routledge.

     Caraher, W., Weber, B (Eds). Grand Forks Community Land Trust: Neighborhood History Series

                                    --Chris Price. (2012). “The Old Church on Walnut Street: A Story of Immigrants and Evangelicals”

 

Peer Reviewed Journal Publications

                        Christensen, J., Thonnessesn, J., Weber, B. “Knowledge Creation in Reflective Teaching and Shared Values in Social Education: A Design for an International Classroom. Educatia21 Journal (19), Art. 02 December, 2020. doi: 10.24193/ed21.2020.19.02 (http://educatia21.reviste.ubbcluj.ro/)

                         Caraher, W. R., Weber, B., Rothaus, R. “Making Home in the Bakken Oil Patch (2018). Sixty Years of Boom and Bust: The Impact of Oil in North Dakota, 1958-2018, Kyle Conway (Ed.). The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND. https://digitalpressatund.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/conway_sixty_years_final_01.pdf                   

                        Rothaus, Richard, Caraher, W.R., Weber, B., and Kourelis, K., Wheelock, North Dakota: A Ghost-Town Window on Extractive Industries. Deserted Villages.                          

                        Nedegaard, R., Barkdull, C., Weber, B., Jayasundara, D. (2017) “Lessons Our Students Taught Us About Teaching Social Work in a Reservation Community” Journal of Teaching in Social Work  December, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1080/08841233.2017.1414097

                       Caraher, William R., Weber, Bret A., Rothaus, R., Lessons from the Bakken Oil Patch, Archaeologies of Forced and Undocumented Migration, Journal of Contemporary Archaeology, 195-204. ISSN (print) 2051-3429 (online) 2051-3437                       

                        Caraher, William R., Weber, Bret A., Kourelis, K., Rothaus, R., North Dakota Man Camp Project: The Archaeology of Home in the Bakken Oil Fields, Historical Archaeology, the journal of the Society for Historical Archaeology 10.1007/s41636-017-0020-8

                         Weber, Bret A., Geigle, J., Barkdull, C. (2014), Rural North Dakota’s Oil Boom and its Impact on Social Services Social Work, 59 (1) 62 -72. (Social Work is the pre-eminent, highest impact journal in the social work profession)

                         Weber, Bret A. (2012). Social Work and the Challenges of the Green Economy. Advances in Social Work, file number, 1969-6524-1-RV.docx 

                        Barkdull, C., Weber, B., Swart, A., Phillips, A. (2012), The Changing Context of Refugee Resettlement Policy and Programs in the United States.            Journal of International Social Issues, 1 (1) 107 – 119.

                         Weber, Bret A., & Wallace, A. (2012). Revealing the Empowerment Revolution: A Literature Review of the Model Cities Program”  Journal of Urban History, 38 (1), 173 – 192.

                        Weber, Bret A. (2010). Morial, Ernest Nathan “Dutch.” In The African American National Biography. The W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University and Oxford University Press.

                        Weber, Bret A. (2010). Bussey, Charles. In The African American National Biography. The W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University and Oxford University Press.

                        Weber, Bret A. (2010). Watson, Lauren. In The African American National Biography. The W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University and Oxford University Press.

Public Scholarship

                                    Weber, B., Caraher, W., Rothaus, R., Kourelis, K., (2016), Man Camps of North Dakota: A Humanities Study Guide, Center for Heritage Renewal, Circular No. 1 (North Dakota State University) https://www.academia.edu/14327201/The_Man_Camps_of_North_Dakota_A_Study_Guide

                                    Caraher, W., Guins, R., Reinhard, A., Rothaus, R., and Weber, B. (2014), Why We Dug Atari, The Atlantic (August 7, 2014). http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/08/why-we-dug-atari/375702/

 

 

Journals and Book Chapters

                                   Weber, B., Barkdull, C., Karikari, I., Tarr, R. ”Effective Practice with Refugees Using A Social Work Lens (2020).” Social Workers’ Desk Reference, 4th Edition. Oxford University Press.  Expected Publication Date Fall 2021.                       

                                    Fogel, S., Barkdull, B., & Weber, B. (2015), Social Work Education: The International Journal special issue, “Environmental Justice, Green Social   Work or Eco Justice,” 34 (5): Oxford, UK: Routledge.

MSW, the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota

PhD U.S. History, the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah

Bachelor of Arts in History, Weber State University, Ogden, Utah

Twenty-Five Years as a small businessman making payroll every two weeks

Executive Director, Citizens for Tax Fairness

Social Entrepreneur (including founding President of the Grand Forks Community Land Trust)

Environmental Researcher for Heritage Research Center, Ltd

Service as an elected official on the Grand Forks City Council

Contributing Editor for Social Work, published by NASW

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