Tina Granger

Tina Granger is a native of Houma, Louisiana and a member of the university faculty in the Department of Social Sciences. She is married to David R. Granger, Sr. and has five children and seven grandchildren. In 2019, she partnered with the Lafourche Parish Sheriff’s Office and the US Dept. of Justice on a CIT Training grant and received $46,878.00 to provide data analysis as the primary investigator. She has been awarded a UL Serves grant on the research relative to the historical roots of an African/American post-civil war church “Little Zion/St. Luke”. She has continued this research and provides presentations on the data and how to engage students in active learning and ethnographic research. She serves as the Nicholls State University Service Learning Liaison to the University of Louisiana System and to the University community. As the Sociology Program Co-coordinator Ms. Granger provides program reviews, data related to student outcomes, supervises the On-line College Sociology program, and assists the Department Head in all matters related to the daily functioning of the Sociology program. Ms. Granger has developed the Social Work Minor (5 new courses), the Applied Sociology Minor, and co-developed the PETSM Disaster Response Management Minor (2 new courses). She is an Honor’s Abroad Board Member. She is invested in the bayou region and has collected data for the past five years through her research project Cajun Heritage Preservation. She has been the instructor on record for the past 8 years for the sociology research courses 205, 305, and 406. She is known in the community for her dedication to the preservation of the Cajun heritage.