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Samantha Teixeira

Associate Professor

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Samantha Teixeira

Ph.D.

Contact

McGuinn Hall 219

Telephone: 617-552-0743

Email: samantha.teixeira@bc.edu

Education

  • B.A., University of New Hampshire
  • M.S.W., University of Pittsburgh
  • Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh

Research Interests

Social and Spatial Inequality, Community Based Participatory Research, Youth Empowerment, Neighborhood Effects

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Expertise

  • Disparities
  • Environmental Justice
  • Innovations in Research Methods
  • Macro Practice
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Profile

Samantha Teixeira, PhD, is an Associate Professor at the Boston College School of Social Work. Her research focuses on how the residential environment affects health and well-being, with a focus on neighborhood physical and social features as well as housing conditions. She specializes in community-engaged, action-oriented approaches to research that include traditional qualitative and quantitative methods as well as innovative arts-based approaches, community mapping, and spatial analyses.听

Teixeira co-leads the Housing Opportunity and Mobility Experiment (HOME), funded by the National Institutes on Minority Health and Health Disparities and the Brady Education Foundation. This community-engaged, mixed-methods, longitudinal research effort takes place in a public housing community in South Boston and aims to understand the impacts of housing redevelopment on residents鈥� health and well-being across the life course.听

Dr. Teixeira鈥檚 work has been funded by multiple sources, including the NIMHD, Brady Education Foundation, and Russell Sage Foundation. Her research has been published in leading journals, addressing the effects of housing and neighborhoods on health and well-being, place-based community interventions, and youth-led participatory research.听

Dr. Teixeira is the recipient of prestigious awards, including the Society for Social Work and Research Outstanding Dissertation Award (2015), and the Association for Community Organization and Social Administration (ACOSA) Emerging Scholar Award (2016). Dr. Teixeira is a member of the Board of Directors for the Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR) and is currently a member of the editorial boards of the Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal and the Journal of Community Practice.

She has nearly a decade of experience mentoring graduate students, post-doctoral scholars, and early career colleagues and is dedicated to training researchers committed to using research as a vehicle for positive community change.