Margo M. Campbell

Margo M. Campbell is an Associate Professor and Director of the PhD Program at Widener University’s Center for Social Work Education. She holds affiliations with Social Work programs at the BSW, MSW, and PhD levels, including dual-degree programs in Human Sexuality Studies. Her academic journey includes a MSS (1999) and MLSP (1999) from Bryn Mawr College, followed by a PhD in Social Work (2017), also from Bryn Mawr.

Her research focuses on economic vulnerability, family well-being, and the intersectionality of identities in contexts of precarity. Key interests include policy impacts on families, child social-emotional competence, and the role of social work in fostering justice. Notable work examines caregiver wages, felt precarity, and curriculum development for macro social work.

Recipient of the Rivitz Award for Best Dissertation Proposal (2012), Campbell emphasizes pedagogy that empowers students as leaders in social change. Her publications span family stress models, prison ethics, and community-based educational strategies. Current projects aim to deepen understanding of economic precarity’s effects on families and expand intersectional analyses of identity and marginalization.