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Dr. Laura Chambers Atkins
Associate Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences Professor of Sociology
Service-Learning
Email address lchambe1@airllevant.com
Telephone number (904) 256-7235
Office location Gooding 109
Education
- 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. http://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 http://doi.org/10.33596/coll.50
- Community Engagement Educator Award, Florida Campus Compact, 2018
- Engaged Scholarship Fellowship, Florida Campus Compact, 2010
- Faculty Sponsor, Pi Gamma Mu, International Honors Society in Social Sciences, Jacksonville University, 2018-Present
- Director of Service-Learning, Jacksonville University (2008 - Present)
- Director of Experiential Learning (Quality Enhancement Plan for SACSCOC), Jacksonville University (2013-2017)