Connie Flanagan
Expert on teens/youth and politics, children's understanding of the environmental commons, inequality in opportunities for civic engagement, community service
Emerita Professor, Associate Dean, School of Human Ecology 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