Dept. of Sociology

Allyson comes to Memorial’s Department of Sociology from the University of Waterloo, where she was an Assistant Professor in Knowledge Integration. She has an MA and PhD in Sociology from McMaster University and a BA (H) in Sociology from Memorial University.

From 2014 to 2016, she was a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research and teaching specializations include work and labour markets, culture, creativity, social inequality, theory, and qualitative methods. Her research on gender inequality in the fashion industry has been published in such journals as Gender & Society and Social Currents. It has also been featured in prominent fashion publications, including Glamour and Fashionista, and inspired Glamour Magazine and the Council of Fashion Designers of America to conduct an investigation into inequality in fashion, which is currently being used to shape changes in practice, policy, and culture in the fashion industry.

Allyson has also conducted research on: cultural economy development and inequality in Austin’s creative sector, educational responses to changing labour market demands around technology and 21st century competencies, and the evolution of Sociology and Cultural Sociology in Canada.

In Fall 2018 she will be teaching Introduction to Sociology (SOCI 1000) and Work and Society (SOCI 3220).