Steven Paul Schinke (9 May 1945 – 1 January 2019) was an American academic.
He graduated from Elkhorn Area High School and joined the United States Air Force.
[1] Upon his discharge from military service in 1967,[2] Schinke enrolled at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he earned a bachelor's and master's degree in social work, and a doctorate in social welfare.
[3] Schinke began teaching at the University of Washington in 1975, and left for Columbia University in 1986, for an appointment as D'Elbert and Selma Keenan Professor of Social Work.
[4] He died of pulmonary fibrosis on 1 January 2019, in Roxbury, Connecticut.