Dr. B.J. Bryson
Social Work Department
College of Integrated Science and Technology
Office: Health and Human Services Building 2137 and Blue Ridge Hall 240
Phone: 540-568- 2924
Email: brysonbj@jmu.edu
BJ Bryson, PhD joined the JMU Social Work Department in Fall, 2004 with an extensive teaching, service, and research background. She received her BSW from the UNC-Greensboro, MSW from the University of Georgia, and her doctorate from the University of Washington.
Dr. Bryson loves combining the theoretical with the practical in the classroom and finds teaching an ever evolving experience where she is both facilitator and learner. Her classroom motto is “Excellence is a standard, not a goal”. Hard work is par for the course.
She will be providing leadership to the Acting Out Programs as part of the Aging, Family and Intergenerational Studies Program housed in Blue Ridge Hall.
Her areas of interest and research include people living with HIV/AIDS & its stigma; women’s welfare reform experiences; POC, diversity and multicultural inclusiveness; spirituality; teaching; and domestic violence. Dr. Bryson loves qualitative research and believes everybody has a story.
