Contact:
(860)570-9282
robert.fisher@uconn.edu
Office Locations:
Greater Hartford Campus
Library Building Rm 431
Mailing Address
University of Connecticut
1800 Asylum Avenue, 4th Floor
West Hartford, CT 06117
Office Hours
By appointment
Robert Fisher is Professor of Social Work and Director, Urban and Community Studies at the University of Connecticut.
Selected Publications
He is the co-author of Settlement Houses Under Siege: The Struggle to Sustain Community Organization in New York (Columbia University, 2002) and Social Work and Community in a Private World: Getting Out in Public (Longman, 1997). He is the author of Let The People Decide: Neighborhood Organizing in America Second Edition (Twayne, 1994). And he co-edited Mobilizing the Community: Local Politics in the Era of the Global City (Sage, 1993) and Community Organization for Urban Social Change (1981). Fisher is the recipient of two Fulbright fellowships to Austria.
Specialization
History / Social Work: community organizing, social movements
Courses Offered in Academic Year 2007/2008 for UCS
Fall 2007
URBN 295 – Community Organizing: History, Theory & Practice > Course Syllabus
URBN 231 – Internship in Urban Studies: Field Study
URBN 232 – Internship in Urban Studies: Seminar