Connie Flanagan
Expert on teens/youth and politics, children's understanding of the environmental commons, inequality in opportunities for civic engagement, community service
Vaughan Bascom Professor Emerit in Women, Family and Community School of Human Ecology Work: 608-262-4847 — Home and cell phones available upon request caflanagan@wisc.edu Home page
Topics
- Teens and environmental action
- Youth engagement in community service, volunteering, and activism
- Adolescents' civic development and social trust
- Inequality in youth political participation
- Family and school influences on youth civic engagement
Achievements
- 2015 Blanche F. Ittleson Award from the American Orthopsychiatric Association for research linking civic engagement, social justice, and youth well-being
- 2014 Social Policy Award for Best Authored Book from the Society for Research on Adolescence for Teenage Citizens: The political theories of the young
- 2012 Research Prize, Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service, Tufts University, for scholarship contributing to the understanding of civic engagement
- Fellow, Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI),Division 9 of the American Psychological Association
- Honorary doctorate in Humanities and Social Sciences from Orebro University in Sweden