David Stoesz


David Stoesz is an American academic, policy analyst, author, and social entrepreneur. Stoesz worked as a welfare caseworker and welfare department director and has published about social policy, child welfare, international development, and national politics. He earned his PhD at the University of Maryland-Baltimore in 1980, subsequently teaching at San Diego State University and Virginia Commonwealth University where he served as Samuel Wurtzel Professor of Social Work. He is a professor emeritus in the Virginia Commonwealth School of Social Work, and a founder of Up$tart, a company whose products assist US college students in applying for federal benefits.
Stoesz's book, Quixote’s Ghost: The Right, the Liberati, and the Future of Social Policy received the Prohumanitate Literary Award.
In 2010 Stoesz was inducted into the National Academy of Social Insurance.

Books

  • Meritocracy, Populism, and the Future of Democracy
  • Welfare State 3.0: Social Policy After the Pandemic
  • Building Better Social Programs: How Evidence is Transforming Public Policy
  • The Investment State
  • The Dynamic Welfare State
  • Quixote's Ghost: The Right, the Liberati, and the Future of Social Policy
  • A poverty of imagination: Bootstrap capitalism, sequel to welfare reform
  • The Politics of Child Abuse in America
  • ''Reconstructing the American Welfare State''

    As an editor or co-author

  • American Social Welfare Policy, 9th ed. co-authored with Howard Karger
  • Stoesz, David, Howard Jacob Karger, and Terry E. Carrillo. "A dream deferred: How social work education lost its way and what can be done.".
  • Karger, Howard Jacob, and David Stoesz. American social welfare policy. Allyn and Bacon, 2009.

    Articles

  • Stoesz, David. "Evidence-based policy: Reorganizing social services through accountable care organizations and social impact bonds." Research on Social Work Practice 24, no. 2 : 181–185.
  • Karger, Howard Jacob, and David Stoesz. "The growth of social work education programs, 1985-1999: Its impact on economic and educational factors related to the profession of social work." Journal of Social Work Education 39, no. 2 : 279–295.
  • Stoesz, David, and Howard Jacob Karger. "Deconstructing welfare: The Reagan legacy and the welfare state." Social Work 38, no. 5 : 619–628.

    Awards

Stoesz has received two Fulbright Distinguished Chair awards: in 2014 to the UK, in 2017 to Australia.