RACHEL ALLISON present Assistant Professor of Sociology, Mississippi State University

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1 RACHEL ALLISON 207 Bowen Hall, Hardy Road Office: (662) PO Box C Fax: (662) Mississippi State, MS, rallison@soc.msstate.edu EDUCATION 2014 PhD, Sociology, Dissertation: Gender and the Organization of Women s Professional Soccer Committee: Barbara J. Risman (chair), William Bielby, Paul-Brian McInerney, Michael Messner, and Pamela Popielarz 2009 MA, Sociology, Thesis: Race, Gender and Attitudes Toward War in Chicago: An Intersectional Analysis Committee: Barbara J. Risman (chair) and Anthony Orum 2007 BA, Sociology/French, Grinnell College ACADEMIC POSITIONS 2014-present Assistant Professor of Sociology, Mississippi State University RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS Gender, Sexuality, Intersectionality, Sociology of Sports, Organizations, Qualitative Methods, Quantitative Methods PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS Allison, Rachel, and Barbara J. Risman. It Goes Hand in Hand with the Parties : Race, Class and Residence in College Student Negotiations of Hooking Up. Sociological Perspectives 57(1): Allison, Rachel, and Barbara J. Risman. A Double Standard for Hooking Up : How Far Have we Come Toward Gender Equality? Social Science Research 42(5):

2 2013. Davis, Georgiann, and Rachel Allison. White Coats, Black Specialists? Racial Divides in the Medical Profession. Sociological Spectrum 33(6): Davis, Georgiann, and Rachel Allison. Increasing Representation, Maintaining Hierarchy: An Assessment of Gender and Medical Specialization. Social Thought and Research 32(1): Allison, Rachel. Race, Gender and Attitudes Toward War in Chicago: An Intersectional Analysis. Sociological Forum 26(3): MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW Allison, Rachel, and Pallavi Banerjee. Intersectionality and Social Location in Organization Studies, Allison, Rachel. Business or Cause? Gendered Institutional Logics in Women s Professional Soccer. OTHER WRITING 2014 Allison, Rachel. Hooking Up as a College Culture. Gender & Society blog. Available at gendersociety.wordpress.com. Reprinted in Families as They Really Are, 2 nd edition, edited by Barbara J. Risman and Virginia Rutter. New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc Allison, Rachel. Review of The Urban Geography of Boxing: Race, Class and Gender in the Ring. Race, Gender & Class 20(1-2): Allison, Rachel. Title IX, Women and Sport: An Update. Fact sheet prepared for Sociologists for Women in Society. Available at CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS 2014 We re Taking Over! Constructing a Fan Base in Women s Professional Soccer. Paper presented at the meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, Omaha, NE, and at the meeting of Society for the Sociological Study of Social Problems, San Francisco, CA. 2

3 Women s Professional Sport: What Can We Learn from the Case of Women s Soccer? Presented at the Mirror of our Culture: Sport and Society in America conference, St. Norbert College, De Pere, WI. It Might be Too Strong a Word: Feminism and Empowerment in Women s Professional Soccer. Paper presented at the meeting of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport, Portland, OR Gender, Contested Institutional Logics, and the Failure of Women s Professional Soccer. Paper presented at the Center for Research on Women and Gender, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL. Business or Cause? Gender as Contested Logic in Women s Professional Soccer. Paper presented at the meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, New York, NY. It Goes Hand in Hand with the Parties : Race, Class and Residence in College Student Negotiations of Hooking Up (with Barbara Risman). Paper presented at the meeting of the American Sociological Association, New York, NY. A Feel for the Game: Using Bourdieu to Theorize Gender in Sport. Paper presented at the meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, Chicago, IL The Sexual Double Standard Toward Hooking Up : How Far Have we Come Toward Gender Equality? (with Barbara Risman) Paper presented at the meeting of the International Association for Relationship Research, Chicago, IL, and the meeting of the American Sociological Association, Denver, CO. Gendered Fields? Women s Sport Fans Compare Men s and Women s Soccer. Paper presented at the meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, Minneapolis, MN. Organizational Aims and Strategies Within Women s Professional Soccer. Paper presented at the meeting of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport, Minneapolis, MN I ve Been There, Done That : Racial and Class Variation in College Women s Sexual Strategies. Invited Brown Bag at Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL How Double is the Sexual Standard for Hooking Up in College? (with Barbara Risman) Paper presented at the meeting of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta, GA, and at the meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, Chicago, IL An Intersectional Approach to Explaining Opinion on the Iraq War. Paper presented at the meeting of Sociologists for Women in Society, Savannah, GA, and at the meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, Des Moines, IA. TEACHING APPOINTMENTS 3

4 Mississippi State University Introduction to Social Research; Sociology of Sports (split-level) Sociological Statistics Human Sexuality: Social Perspectives; Introduction to Sociological Theory Northeastern Illinois University Introduction to Social Statistics; Sociological Research Methods; Introduction to Sociological Theory American Women: The Changing Image; Introduction to Sociology Sociology of Education Kennesaw State University Principles of Sociology GRANTS AND AWARDS st place, Society for the Study of Social Problems Student Paper Competition, Section on Sport, Leisure, and the Body ($100) 2013 Alice J. Dan Award, Center for Research on Women and Gender, University of Illinois at Chicago ($500) 2013 Lee Student Support Fund Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems ($250) 2013 American Sociological Association Student Forum Travel Award ($225) 2013 SAGE Teaching Innovations & Professional Development Award ($500) 2013 University of Illinois President s Research in Diversity Travel Award ($600) Dean s Scholar Fellowship, ($20,500) 2012 Midwest Sociological Society Endowment Committee Research Grant ($1,200) 2012 Gender and Women s Studies Travel Grant ($250) 2010 American Sociological Association Student Forum Travel Award ($225) nd place, Midwest Sociological Society Graduate Student Paper Competition ($150) 2007 Judith Louise McKim Scholarship in Sociology, Grinnell College ($1,500) MEDIA COVERAGE Forbes, CBS Chicago, LA Times, Psychology Today, SELF Magazine Blog, St. Louis Today, Jezebel, Slate 4

5 SERVICE Disciplinary Service 2013-present Newsletter Editor, SSSP Sport, Leisure and the Body Section 2011-present Ad hoc reviewer for Routledge, Gender & Society, Journal of Sport Management, Women s Studies in Communication, Comprehensive Journal of Education and Arts 2014 Session Organizer, North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Session Organizer, Midwest Sociological Society meeting, Chicago, IL Elected Student Representative, Sociologists for Women in Society PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS American Sociological Association North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Society for the Study of Social Problems Southern Sociological Society Sociologists for Women in Society REFERENCES Barbara J. Risman William Bielby Department of Sociology Department of Sociology 1007 W. Harrison St. MC W. Harrison St. MC 312 Chicago, IL Chicago, IL brisman@uic.edu wbielby@uic.edu (312) (312)