Her research interests include student success and experiential pedagogies in community college contexts, as well as intersections of race/ethnicity and gender in American family life. Her most recent publications in these areas include articles in Teaching Sociology, Internet and Higher Education (with Volchok, Bidjerano, and Shea), Qualitative Sociology, Sociological Focus, and International Journal of Sociology of the Family. She is also the co-editor (with Perel Katz) of Service-Learning at the American Community College (Palgrave Macmillan 2014), an edited volume reviewed as a “must read” that “suggests a strategy for reconsidering the priorities and practices of higher education.” Traver is a graduate of Colgate University (B.A., 1997), Harvard University (Ed.M., 1999), and the State University of New York at Stony Brook (Ph.D., 2008).