Elizabeth Allan

Associate Professor
Higher Educational Leadership

elizabeth.allan@umit.maine.edu
Phone: (207) 581-3166

Education:
Ph.D.: Educational Policy & Leadership focus in Women's Studies, The Ohio State University
M.S. Health Education & Promotion, Springfield College
B.S. Psychology, Springfield College

Courses taught:

• HED 650: Doctoral Seminar: Social Context of Higher Education
• HED 676: Introduction to Doctoral Inquiry
• EDS 571: Introduction to Qualitative Research
• EDU 690: Advanced Qualitative Research
• HED 608: Seminar in Student Development in Higher Education
• HED 598: Issues in College Teaching
• HED 690: Internship in Higher Education
• HED 610: Masters Capstone: Case Studies in Higher Education
• HED 561: Theories of Student Development
• HED 562: Impact of College on Students
• WST 410: Feminist Theory
• WST 210: Women, Culture & Society (at The Ohio State University)

Scholarship:

• Policy Discourse Analysis
• Diversity, Identity Privilege, and Curriculum Development
• Classroom Climates and College Teaching
• Hazing and Student Development
• Gender & Education
• Feminist, Critical, and Poststructural Theories in Education
• Qualitative Research Methodology
• University Women's Commissions
• Gender & Leadership
• Service Learning

Service:

• Diversity Committee, UMaine College of Education and Human Development, 2006-present.
• Search Committee member, UMaine Director of Equal Opportunity and Diversity, 2006.
• Human Subjects Committee member, College of Education and Human Development, 2002-present.
• University Teaching Council, 2005-2007.
• Service Learning Leadership Team, Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Maine, 2002-2006.
• Women’s Studies Advisory Committee, University of Maine, 2000-present.

Representative Publications & Conference Presentations:

Refereed Articles

• Allan, E. J., Gordon, S., & Iverson, S. (2006).  Re/thinking practices of power:  The discursive framing of leadership in postsecondary education.  The Review of Higher Education, 30(1), 41-68. 
• Allan, E. J. & Madden, M.  (July/August 2006).  Chilly classrooms for female undergraduate students at a research university:  A question of method?  The Journal of Higher Education, 77(4), 684-711.
• Allan, E. J. & Estler, S. E. (2005).  Diversity, privilege and us:  Collaborative curriculum transformation among Educational Leadership faculty.  Innovative Higher Education, 29(3), 209-232.
• Allan, E. J. & Iverson, S. V. (Winter 2004).  Cultivating critical consciousness: Service learning in higher education.  INQUIRY:  Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines. 23(2), 51-61.
• Allan, E. J. (2003).  Constructing women’s status:  Policy discourses of university women’s commissions.  Harvard Educational Review, 73(1), 44-72.  (Awarded Outstanding Publication by the American Educational Research Association Division J). 

Books

• Allan, E. J. (2007).  Policy discourses, gender and education:  Constructing women’s status.  Routledge.
• Allan, E. J., Iverson, S., & R. Ropers-Huilman. (Eds.). (under contract). Re/constructing Higher Education: Feminist Poststructural Perspectives and Policy Analysis.  Routledge.
• Allan, E. J.  (under contract).  The numbers game:  Beyond parity and toward equity for women in higher education.  Jossey-Bass.

Invited Articles

• Allan, E. J. & Madden, M. (2007, Fall). “Yeah, but it wasn’t hazing!":  Research-based insights on why students underestimate hazing.  AFA Essentials.  Association of Fraternity Advisors publication.
• Allan, E. J. & McKaig, D. (2007, Winter).  Hazing on campus: Beyond the Greeks.  Leadership Exchange. 4(4), 12-17. NASPA publication.
• Allan, E. J. (2005, Winter).  Analyzing the obvious:  Applying a gender lens to understand the problem of hazing.  Interfraternity Bulletin.  North American Interfraternal Foundation, 6-8.
• Allan, E. J. (2004, Spring).  Hazed and confused:  Transforming hazing cultures.  Interfraternity Bulletin.  North American Interfraternal Foundation, 1-4.

Chapters

• Allan, E. J. (2003).  Hazing in high school and college.  In M. Kimmel & A. Aronson (Eds.), Men and masculinities:  A social, cultural, and historical encyclopedia (375-378). Santa Barbara, CA:  ABC-CLIO.
• Allan, E. J. & G. DeAngelis.  (2004).  Hazing, masculinity and collision sports:  (Un)becoming heroes.  In J. Johnson & M. Holman (Eds.), Making the team:  Inside the world of sport hazing and initiations (pp. 61-80).  Toronto:  Canadian Scholars Press.
• Allan, E. J. (2003).  Gender and hazing: Analyzing the obvious.  In H. Nuwer (Ed.), The hazing reader: Examining rites gone wrong in fraternities, professional and amateur athletics, high schools and the military (pp. 275-294).  Bloomington, IN:  Indiana University Press.
• Allan, E. J. (2002).  Classroom climates in postsecondary education.  In A. M. Aleman & K. A. Renn (Eds.), Women in higher education:  An encyclopedia. (pp. 282-287).  Santa Barbara, CA:  ABC-CLIO. 
• Allan, E. (1998).  Education.  In Reading Women's Lives:  An Introduction to Women's Studies.  (pp. 177-182).  Simon & Schuster Custom Publishing.
• Fonow, M., Allan, E. & Bailey, L. (Eds.). (1997). Article Introductions and Discussion Questions published in Women, Culture & Society:  An Introduction to Women's Studies.  Simon & Schuster Custom Publishing.

Online Publications

• Allan, E. J. & Madden, M. (2008).  Hazing in view:  College students at risk.  Initial findings from the national study of student hazing.  www.hazingstudy.org.
• Allan, E. J. & Madden, M. (2006).  Examining and transforming campus hazing cultures:  Phase I Pilot Study Report.  www.hazingstudy.org.
• Allan, E. J. (2002).  Feminist analyses of leadership:  Selected works.  Published in Women’s Studies Database Bibliographies. http://www.mith2.umd.edu/WomensStudies/Bibliographies/.

Representative Presentations

• Allan, E. J.  & Madden, M. (2008).  Hazing in view:  College students at risk.  Research session.  National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) International meeting.  March 2008.  Boston, MA. 
• Allan, E. J. (2008). Hazing and athletes:  Research highlights. NCAA Convention; Hazing Summit. January 10, 2008.  Nashville, TN.
• Allan, E. J. (2007).  Re/constructing Higher Education: Feminist Poststructural Perspectives and Policy Analysis.  Symposium.  Association for the Study of Higher Education International Meeting.  November 2007.  Louisville, KY.
• Allan, E. J.  (2008). Gender and classroom teaching.  University of Maine Masters of Science in Teaching Practicum.  January, 2008.  Orono, ME.
• Allan, E. J. & Fiacco, D. (2007).  Hazing chalktalk:  Winning strategies for understanding and prevention.  University of Maine Department of Athletics Coaching Staff. August, 2007.  Orono, ME.
• Allan, E. J., Gordon, S., & Iverson, S. (2005).  (Re)thinking practices of power:  The discursive framing of leadership in postsecondary education.  Paper Presentation.  American Educational Research Association, International meeting.  April 15, 2005.  Montreal, Canada. 
• Allan, E. J. (2006).  Transforming campus hazing cultures:  Examining the nature and prevalence of hazing in U.S. higher education.  Fraternity Executives Association annual meeting.  July 9, 2006.  Tucson, AZ.    
• Madden, M. & Allan, E. J. (2005).  “There’s no problem:” The value of focus groups in investigating classroom climates for women.  Paper Presentation.  American Educational Research Association International meeting.  April 15, 2005. Montreal, Canada.
• Allan, E. J. (2003).  Bringing voice to the silences of privilege:  Strategies for faculty development and curricular change.  Invited Presenter.  4th Annual Conference on White Privilege.  April 9-12, 2003.  Central College, Pella, Iowa.

Related Experience:

Teaching

Visiting Professor (2007)                                                                     

        Higher Education and Student Development
        Universidad de las Americas, Puebla, Mexico

Developed graduate certificate in Student Development in Higher Education in Mexico in partnership with the University of Maine. 

Visiting Assistant Professor (1999-2000)
Department of Women's Studies, The Ohio State University

Graduate Teaching Associate  (1995-1999)
Department of Women's Studies, The Ohio State University

Graduate Research Associate
Educational Policy & Leadership, The Ohio State University

Student Affairs Professional Experience

Office of Community Development & Student Judicial Affairs
The Ohio State University

Student Activities (including:  Greek Life, Emerging Leader Program,
Commuter Student Services, Student Organizations). 
University of New Hampshire

Residence Hall Director
Springfield College

Vitae: Elizabeth Allan (pdf version)

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