Senior Instructor

About

  • Office Hours:

    Spring 2025 - Tuesdays and Thursdays 11:00am to 12:00pm and by appointment

  • Role:

    Faculty

  • Position:

    • Senior Instructor

  • Department:

    • Ethnic Studies and Women's Studies & Gender Research

  • Education:

    • MA, Ethnic Studies, Colorado State University
    • Graduate Certificate: Gender, Power and Difference, Colorado State University
    • BA, Interdisciplinary Studies, Fairhaven College, Western Washington University

Biography

Allison Goar is a Senior Instructor with the Department of Race, Gender, and Ethnic Studies. A graduate of Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies (Western Washington University) and Colorado State University, she is also a PhD Student in CSU’s School of Education in the Educational Equity and Transformation Program.

Allison’s professional interests include critical whiteness studies, healing justice pedagogy, intersectional feminism, queer theory, disability studies, and the places where these things meet. Her current research interests include the experiences of neurodivergent students in higher education spaces.

Courses Taught: ETST 100: Intro to Ethnic Studies; ETST 205: Ethnicity & the Media; ETST 305: Ethnicity, Class, and Gender in the U.S.; WS 200: Intro to Women’s Studies; WS 268: Whiteness, Gender, and Sexuality; WS 340: Race and Sexuality; WS 350: Feminist Solidarity & Action