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S. M. Berthold, PhD (she/her/hers)

Professor
University of Connecticut School of Social Work
Hartford, CT, United States

S. Megan Berthold, PhD., LCSW, is a Professor at University of Connecticut's School of Social Work where she teaches clinical, research, and trauma courses from a human rights frame. She has worked with diverse refugee and asylum seeking survivors of torture, war, human trafficking, and other traumas since the mid-1980s. She was a clinician and educator in refugee camps in Nepal, the Philippines and on the Thai-Cambodian border. Dr. Berthold has conducted NIMH funded research examining the mental and physical health consequences of genocide among Cambodian refugees. She is PIrincipal Investigator for the National Consortium of Torture Treatment Programs’ Study (NCTTP Study) with torture survivors from around the world and serves on NCTTP’s Executive Committee. She has testified extensively as an expert witness in U.S. Immigration Court and was selected as the 2009 NASW Social Worker of the Year for her work with torture survivors. She is a Fulbright Canada Distinguished Research Chair at Carleton University for the 2024-2025 academic year.

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