Publications

Refereed Publications

Kapur, I., Sharkey, C. N., & Ren, C. (2025). Student perspectives on artificial intelligence: Challenges, opportunities, and societal implications. Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work, 1-27. https://doi.org/10.1080/26408066.2025.2517073 

Sharkey, C. N., Elkins, J. E., & Strickland, C. (2023). Resisting curriculum violence and developing anti-oppressive, trauma-informed, culturally sustaining approaches for social work education and practice. In L. S. Abrams, S. E. Crewe, A. J. Detlaff, and J. H. Williams (Eds.), Social Work, White Supremacy, and Racial Justice: Reckoning with Our History, Interrogating Our Present, Reimagining Our Future. Oxford University Press.

Strickland, C., & Sharkey, C. N. (2022). Power knowledge in social work: Educating social workers to practice racial justice. Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Social Work, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1080/15313204.2022.2070897

Lee, S., Bae, J., Sharkey, C. N., Caplan, M., Bakare, O. H., & Embrey, J. (2022). Professional social work and public libraries in the United States. Social Work, 66. https://doi.org/10.1093/sw/swac025

Sharkey, C. N., Elkins, J. E., & Johnson, Z. (2021). Creating Trauma-Informed Library Spaces: Lessons Learned from a Pilot Program. Journal of Social Work Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/10437797.2021.1978913

Briggs, H. E., Cox, W., Sharkey, C. N., Corley, N., Briggs, A. C., & Black, M. (2016). The role of behavioral theory in model development research with single parent families. Child & Adolescent Social Work Journal, 33(4), 349-363. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10560-015-0428-y

Briggs, H. E., Sharkey, C. N., & Briggs, A. C. (2016). The contributions of applied behavior analysis and behavior theory to innovative research and practice cultures in social work. The Journal of Evidence-Informed Social Work. https://doi.org/10.1080/23761407.2015.10867110.

Kapur, I., Sharkey, C. N., Malorni, A. (In Press). Digitalization and ICT in social work education: A scoping review. Journal of Social Work Education. 

Film Study Guides, Technical Reports, & Other Scholarly Publications

Briggs, H. E., Cox, W., Sharkey, C. N., Briggs, A., & Black, M. (2015). A review of the research on Pinkston’s single-parent group training program. Research on Social Work Practice: Special Issue, Intervention Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/1049731515592033                                

Sharkey, C. N. (2015). Cancer doesn’t discriminate: Developing an LGBTQ culturally competency approach to whole-patient care. 15th Annual Interdisciplinary Research Conference Publication, University of Georgia.

Sharkey, C. N. (2024). Outta the Muck: A curriculum guide. ITVS for Public Broadcasting Services.

Sharkey, C. N. (2022). Youth FX: Becoming trauma-informed. Prepared for: Youth FX. 

Sharkey, C. N. & Elkins, J. (2021). Trauma-informed library transformation: Final report. Prepared for: Athens-Clark County Library System. 

Sharkey, C. N. (2017). APEX - Expanding school-based mental health in Northeast Georgia: Final report. Prepared for: The Center of Excellence. 

Sharkey, C. N., & Gibbons, J. (2015). The Throwaways: A study guide. Third World Newsreel. http://throwawaysdoc.com 

Rothenberg, J., & Joris P. (2004). Pablo Picasso - The burial of the Count Orgaz and other poems. (role: Copy editor) 

Mercogliano, C. (2004). How to grow a school: Starting and sustaining schools that work. Oxford Village Press (Role: Editor and typesetter) 

Morse, C. (2002). The new formulation: An anti-authoritarian review of books, 1(2). (role: Editor and typesetter) 

Haber, E., Sharkey, C.N., Banks, L., & Briggs, H.E. (2025). Black fathers and multi-partner fertility: A scoping review. [Special issue]. Child Welfare: Fathers and Child Welfare - Conceptual Frameworks, Theoretical Foundations, Empirical Approaches, and Innovations in Research and Practice, 102(1). 

Toledo, W., Flint, M. A., Sharkey, C. N., McCollum, S. R., Ferrari, B., Paseda, O., Cottrell, A. (2023). Building community through feminist collectivity: Being and becoming women in academia. Gender and Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2023.2193208

Manuscripts In Preparation

Sharkey, C. N., Wright, Y., Briggs, H. E., & Banks, L. (in process). Multi-partner fertility and Black Mothers: A scoping review. 

Sharkey, C. N. (in process). Run, hide, fight: The history of school mass shootings and active shooter drills in p-12 public schools. 

Sharkey, C. N., Henry, D., Suchak, B. (in process). In youth we trust: Cultivating community with young people through filmmaking. Book proposal. 

Sharkey, C. N., & Gallo, D. (in process). Understanding adultism: A scoping review. 

Sharkey, C. N. (in process). From start to finish: Youth participatory action research and engaging young co-researchers in a digital storytelling program. 

Sharkey, C. N. (in process). I got your back: Digital storytelling as a catalyst for fostering a sense of community and collective efficacy with young people. 

Sharkey, C.N., Gorousingh, J., Foster, M., & Henry, D. (in process). We have something to say: Dismantling adultism and recentering youth voice in social work practice and research through digital and social media. • Sharkey, C. N. (in process). Storying as reclamation: Digital storytelling and transformative collaborative practice with young people in urban communities. 

Sharkey, C. N., & Kapur, I. (in process). Humanizing technology: Chromebooks, social media, and the responsibility of culturally sustaining praxis in school communities. OBM Integrative and Complementary Medicine. 

Sharkey, C. N. (in process). From lockdowns to burnout: Embodying empathic, compassionate, and trauma-informed curriculum and practices in schools.