Beginning in the fall of 2009, AWF will be led by Co-Presidents Tonya Edmond and Corinna Treitel.
Tonya Edmond is Associate Professor of Social Work and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the George Warren Brown School of Social Work. Her research and teaching interests include violence against women and practice effectiveness. Dr. Edmond has nearly 20 years of practice experience as a social worker, both in direct practice and administration. She served as the director of the Albuquerque Rape Crisis Center at the University of New Mexico; as a clinical social worker specializing in sexual assault and trauma in private practice; and as clinical director of the Austin Rape Crisis Center. She teaches several master's level courses including foundations of social work practice, intervention approaches with women, and research methods. She is a faculty associate with the Comorbidity and Addictions Center and the Center for Mental Health Services Research. As Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, she oversees all aspects of the School's MSW program.
Corinna Treitel is Associate Professor of History specializing in modern Germany and Central Europe, cultural history, and the history of science and medicine. Dr. Treitel's first book, A Science for the Soul: Occultism and the Genesis of the German Modern (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004), examined the German occult movement as an aspect of European modernism. German occultists made major contributions to twentieth-century art, psychology, literature, medicine, and what we now call "New Age" spirituality. Their efforts were also an excellent example of a larger historical trend that scholars of popular culture are just beginning to study: the use of science to enchant the "disenchanted" age of modernity anew. Her current research concerns the history of food and nutrition in Central Europe. In September of 2008, Dr. Treitel co-organized a conference on "The Ethics of Diet." She is completing a book exploring the history of natural foods movements in German-speaking Europe since the early nineteenth century. She is the recipient of an award from the Center for the Study of Ethics and Human Values, Washington University in St. Louis; a Radcliff Institute Fellowship, Harvard University; a Faculty Research Award, Wellesley College; and a Bernadotte E. Schmitt Grant, American Historical Association.