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Education
2020
Ph.D. Sociology, University of Oregon
Dissertation: “Environmental Politics at the End of the World – Prepping as Environmental Practice”
Committee: Kari Norgaard (chair), Ryan Light, Matt Norton, C.J. Pascoe, Anita Chari
Graduate Certificate in Women’s Gender & Sexuality Studies
2015
M.S. Sociology, University of Oregon
Exam, Culture and Environmental Sociology
2009
M.A. International Environmental Policy, Middlebury Institute of International Studies
2005
B.A. Literature/Writing, University of California, San Diego**
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
Environmental sociology, environmental privilege, climate change, culture, emotions, gender, race, consumption, social theory, feminist theory, qualitative methods, ethnography
PUBLICATIONS
Refereed Journal Articles
Ford, Allison. Forthcoming. “Where We Live, Learn and Play: Environmental Racism and Early Childhood Development in Review.” Early Childhood Research Quarterly. Accepted January 2024.
Ford, Allison. 2021. “ They Will Be Like a Swarm of Locusts: Race, Rurality and Settler Colonialism in American Prepping Culture. ” Rural Sociology. 86(3):469-493.
Ford, Allison. 2020. “ An Emotional Landscape of Risk: Self-Sufficiency and the Environment. ” Qualitative Sociology. 44(1):125–150.
Ford, Allison and Kari Marie Norgaard. 2020. “ Whose Everyday Climate Cultures? Environmental Subjectivities and Invisibility in Climate Change Discourse. ” Climatic Change. 163:43–62.
Ford, Allison. 2019. “ The Self-Sufficient Citizen: Ecological Habitus and Environmental Practices. ” Sociological Perspectives 62(5): 627–645.
Book Chapters
Ford, Allison. 2024. “ Skirting the Frame: Prepping and the Conservative Politics of Climate Change ” in Climate, Science and Society: A Primer, edited by Zeke Baker, Tamar Law, Mark Vardy and Stephen Zehr. Routledge.
Ford, Allison and Kari Marie Norgaard. 2019. “Ghurba—A Longing for One’s Homeland” in An Ecotopian Lexicon, edited by Matthew Schneider-Mayerson and Brent Ryan Bellamy. University of Minnesota Press.
Ford, Allison and Kari Marie Norgaard. 2019. “From Denial to Resistance: How Emotions and Culture Shape Our Responses to Climate Change” in Climate and Culture: Multidisciplinary Perspectives of Knowing, Being and Doing in a Climate Change World, edited by Hilary Geoghegan, Alex Arnall and Giuseppe Feola. Cambridge University Press.
Ford, Allison and Kari Marie Norgaard. 2017. “Securing Sustainability: Culture and Emotions as Barriers to Environmental Change.” in Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Design, edited by Rachel Beth Egenhoefer. Routledge.
Book Reviews
Ford, Allison. 2021. Book Review of Defend the Sacred: Native American Religious Freedom beyond the First Amendment, by MICHAEL MCNALLY. Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press. 2020. 1-376. for Sociology of Religion: A Quarterly Review.
WORKS IN PROGRESS
Prepared: The Environmental Politics of the End of the World. Book manuscript in progress, contracted by University of Chicago Press for submission in early 2024.
GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS
2019 – 2020
Andrew W. Mellon Dissertation Fellowship, Center for Environmental Futures, University of Oregon
2019 – 2020
Wayne Morse Center Graduate Research Fellowship, University of Oregon
2019-2020
University of Oregon, General University Scholarship
2018-2019
M. Gregg Smith Fellowship, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Oregon
2018- 2019
University of Oregon, General University Scholarship
2018- 2019
Betty Foster McCue Scholarship, Graduate School, University of Oregon
2018
University of Oregon Sociology Department, Small Grants Fund, Winter & Fall
2017
Wasby-Johnson Sociology Dissertation Research Award, UO Department of Sociology
2017-2018
Sandra Morgen Public Impact Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Oregon
2017-2018
University of Oregon, General University Scholarship
2017-2018
Carolyn M. Stokes Memorial Scholarship, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Oregon
2016-2017
University of Oregon, General University Scholarship
2016
University of Oregon Sociology Department, Small Grants Fund Award, Fall
2015-2016
Carolyn M. Stokes Memorial Scholarship, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Oregon
2014
University of Oregon Sociology Department, Small Grants Fund Award, Fall
2015-2016
Norman Brown Graduate Fellowship, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Oregon
2014
University of Oregon Sociology Department Graduate Data Collection & Presentation Award
2007
Katherine Wasserman Davis Fellowship for Peace, Scholarship in Critical Language; Arabic Language School, Middlebury College
2007-2009
Monterey Institute Merit Scholarship
TEACHING
Sonoma State University, Women's and Gender Studies
Current Conversations: Gender, Race and Sexuality
Sonoma State University, Sociology
Sociological Theory, Sociology of Climate Change, Environmental Sociology, Sociology of Gender, Sociology of Consumption, Senior Seminar: Environment & Culture (Ethnographic Methods), Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
University of Oregon, Sociology
Introduction to Sociology, Sociological Research Methods, Sociology of Climate Change, Sociology of Love
University of Oregon, Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies
Women, Work and Class, Women, Difference and Power, Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies
Updated January 2024