Dr. Cudore L. Snell received his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Social Work and Psychology from the University of the Western Cape and a Bachelor of Social Science Honors Degree in Psychiatric Social Work from the University of Cape Town, South Africa.  A Rotary International Scholarship awarded in 1979, enabled him to pursue a Master of Social Work Degree at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

He obtained a Doctor of Social Work Degree from Howard University in Washington, D.C.  The research for this degree received an award for excellence from the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex in 1988.  Dr. Snell is Interim Dean and Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at Howard University where he has taught and conducted research for the past 12 years.  He was a Fulbright-Hayes Scholar on sabbatical leave in South Africa in 2000 and conducted research on street youth.  This was the topic of his dissertation research that was published in 1995 in book form under the title Young Men in the Street.  Professor Snell is continuing research in this area in order to compare youth on the streets in Cape Town, South Africa to those of Washington, D.C. in the United States.

A collaborative research project funded by the National Institute on Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse (NIAA) took him back to his hometown, Wellington in South Africa, in 1999, where he participated in research on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, which is ongoing.