Sanford F. Schram teaches social theory and social policy in the Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research at Bryn Mawr College where he also teaches research methods for undergraduate political science majors. He is the author of several books including "Words of Welfare: The Poverty of Social Science and the Social Science of Poverty" which won the Michael Harrington Award from the American Political Science Association and "Welfare Discipline: Discourse, Governance, and Globalization".