Trish Kohl, a professor at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis, has been selected as a 2026 fellow of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare (AASWSW).
The academy is an honorific society of distinguished scholars and practitioners dedicated to advancing excellence in social work and social welfare and promoting high-impact work that improves the social good.
Kohl is one of nine individuals named to the Class of 2026. She will be formally inducted during the Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR) annual conference in January 2026.
“I am honored to be selected as an AASWSW fellow,” she said. “This recognition reflects the incredible partnership of families, community organizations, colleagues, and students who have helped shaped my work over the years.”
Kohl’s scholarship draws on years of clinical social work practice with children and parents in low-resource communities. Her work focuses on developing, testing and implementing interventions to promote young children’s emotional development, treat early childhood emotional and behavioral problems, and prevent child maltreatment.
With a focus on families facing adversity, Kohl has conducted research with diverse populations across a wide range of service settings locally, nationally and globally. She has received funding from the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Administration for Children and Families, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Also selected as a 2026 fellow was alumna Michelle R. Munson, PhD ’05, a professor at the Silver School of Social Work at New York University.