Neil Bilotta
Assistant Professor of Social Work
Office: Tisch Learning Center (TLC) 224
Phone: (518) 580-5453
Email: nbilotta@skidmore.edu
Pronoun: (he/him)
Education
- PhD, Social Work, McGill University
- PhD, Social Work, McGill University
- PhD, Social Work, McGill University
Biography
Neil Bilotta鈥檚 (he/him) personal, activist, and academic interests are rooted in anti-racist and anti-colonial social work ethical practices and research with refugees and other forcibly displaced communities. More specifically, he is interested in the ways racism, colonialism, and Eurocentric power inform research methodologies and social work interventions with those experiencing refugee status. In collaboration with such communities, he aims to explore how social work can move beyond neoliberal and Eurocentric ideologies in work with forcibly displaced folx. He has partnered with forcibly displaced young people in sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, the United States, and Canada. Furthermore, Neil鈥檚 work also explores how race and racism underpin most mainstream theoretical and methodological prisms that undergird social work. Prior to receiving his doctoral degree, Neil was a social work practitioner with refugee young people and families.
Areas of Researching & Teaching Interest:
- Decolonial Theories
- Anti-racist & Anti-Oppressive Social Work
- Critical Self Reflexivity
- Culturally Sensitive Refugee and Forced Migration Ethics
- Anti-colonial & Collaborative Research
- Emancipatory and Transformative Social Work