Assistant Professor of Sociology Alanna Gillis gave presentations titled "How to Use Extensions to Create a More Inclusive Classroom" and "Race Neutral is Not Race Equal: Unequal Impacts of Restrictive Covid Behavioral Policies on College Students," and served as a pre-conference co-organizer at the American Sociological Association's Teaching and Learning in Bureaucracies of Displacement Preconference in Los, Angeles.
Gillis is the author of several scholarly articles which examine race, class, and gender inequality in higher education and inclusive pedagogy. At St. Lawrence, she teaches Introduction to Sociology, Introduction to Sociology: Inequality, Sociology of Education, and a community-based learning course of Sociology of Family–all of which supported her research on hyflex courses. She holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as well as a B.A. in Sociology from Furman University.
