Laura Chambers Atkins

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. 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 
• 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)