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David J.
Pate, Jr. joined the faculty in January of 2006. Professor Pate received
a Bachelor of Social Work from the University of Detroit, a Masters
of Arts in Social Work from the University of Chicago, School of Social
Service Administration and then earned a Ph.D. in Social Welfare at
the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2003.
His fields of special interest are welfare reform policy; child support
enforcement policy; fatherhood; domestic violence; and the intersection
of race and poverty. He has over fifteen years of direct service, management,
and policy experience in the field of social work.
Professor Pate’s research projects involve the use of qualitative
research methods to examine the relationship of non-custodial fathers
of children on welfare and their interaction with their children, the
child support enforcement system, the mothers of their children, and
the incarceration system. Most recently, he conducted research under
the Wisconsin Child Support Demonstration Evaluation (Institute for
Research on Poverty) examining the same variables with White and African-American
fathers and a selected partner. He is a research consultant to the Strengthening
Healthy Marriage (SHM) project, a seven-year longitudinal research and
evaluation study of strategies for enhancing couple relationships among
low-income married parents in the United States, led by the Manpower
Development Research Corporation (MDRC), ChildTrends, and Optimal Solutions
Group, and funded by the Administration on Children and Families (ACF)
of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Professor Pate teaches required undergraduate and graduate social welfare
policy courses.
His most recent publications explore the issues of poor fathers, welfare
policy, and their children. These publications include “Deadbeat
Dads or Fatherhood in Poverty?” in Good Parents or Good Workers?:
How Policy Shapes Families’ Daily Lives, editors Jill Duerr
Berrick and Bruce Fuller (2005); and “African American Fathers
and their Involvement in the Child Welfare System” in Child
Welfare for the 21st Century: A Handbook of Practices, Policies, and
Programs, editors Gerald P. Mallon and Peg McCartt Hess (2005).
Prior to his appointment at UWM, He was the Founder and Director of
the Center for Family Policy and Practice, and held a Postdoctoral Research
Fellowship at the Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP), University
of Wisconsin-Madison.
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