Allison McKim
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Primary Academic Program: Sociology
Academic Program Affiliation(s): Gender and Sexuality Studies
Academic Expertise: Sociology
Biography:
B.A., Barnard College; M.A., Ph.D., New York University. Primary research areas include gender, social control and punishment, law and society, political sociology, and qualitative methods, with a particular focus on how gender, race, and class shape our approaches to addiction and crime. Her work has appeared in
Gender & Society, is forthcoming in
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, and has been presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association and the American Society of Criminology. At Bard since 2010.
Interests:
Research Interests: Gender, social control and punishment, the welfare state, the governance of health, criminology, political sociology, and ethnographic methods
Teaching Interests: sociology of gender, sexualities, deviance and social control, sociology of punishment, political sociology, governing the self, introduction to sociology, sociological theory, and drugs & society
Contact:
Phone: 845-758-7899
E-mail: amckim@bard.edu
