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PhD, Indiana University
About Me
Allison Vandenberg is a senior lecturer of women’s and gender studies in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University. She received her PhD in gender studies with a concentration in sexualities, desires, and identities and a minor in history from Indiana University in 2016. Her work focuses on gendered engagement in bodily practices, embodiment, and phenomenology. Previous publications include “Toward a Phenomenological Analysis of Historicized Beauty Practices,” which appeared in the Spring/Summer 2018 issue of Women’s Studies Quarterly and “The Somatechnics of Hair Straightening: Technology, Transformation, and Social Change,” which was published in the edited volume (Re)Possessing Beauty: Politics, Poetics, Change. Her regular course offerings include Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies; Feminist Theory; Gender, Beauty, and Culture; Women in European History; and The Virgin Always Lives: Gender, Sexuality, and Horror.
Research Interests
gendered engagement in bodily practices, embodiment, and phenomenology