Astrid Watkins, M.S.W.

Adjunct Assistant Professor
Contact

Email: awatkins@smith.edu
Pronouns: she/they

Astrid Watkins wearing brown blazer leaning against grey wall
Education

Ph.D. student, University of Chicago
M.A., University of Chicago
B.A., Duke University
 

Biography

Astrid Watkins is a Ph.D. student in social work and social welfare at the University of Chicago. Her interests include historical and contemporary abolitionist and land justice movements; critical historiography of the state; creative and participatory research methods; and mutual aid. Prior to pursuing a Ph.D., she worked in policy analysis and research and in arts-based organizing.