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Ph.D., Sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
M.A., Sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
B.A., Sociology and Women's Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Fields Of Study
Community, Service & Civic Engagement
Education & Experiential Learning
Leadership
Gender and Inequality
Courses Taught
Social Action Capstone, Speech Intensive (SOC 470)
Research Methods (GEOG/POL/SOC 420)
Human Sexuality (SOC 415)
Green Societies, service-learning course (GEOG/SOC/SUST 410)
Sociology of Leadership and Organizations (SOC 360)
Community Sociology (SOC 312)
Introductory Sociology (SOC 203)
Selected Publications, Awards, and Service
Co-PI, NSF STEM Grant, Project-based Service Learning and Career-training to Support
Graduation and Career Readiness of Engineering and Computing Science Majors with Mini
Zeng (PI), Lee Ann Clements, Emre Selvi and Steven Davis. $943,266. 11/2020-12/2025
Atkins, Laura C. and Grant, Shelley. 2021. Diverse Applications of Sociological Imagination:
A Qualitative Study of Service-Learning Mentoring. Journal of Applied Social Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1177/19367244211021390
Goldberg, Nisse and Atkins, Laura C. 2020. "Community Partners as Service-Learning
Co-Leaders. Collaborations: A Journal of Community-Based Research and Practice," 3(1): 2, 1-11 https://doi.org/10.33596/coll.50
Community Engagement Educator Award, Florida Campus Compact, 2018
