Assistant Professor of Sociology Alanna Gillis presented her research paper, "A Liberal Arts Approach to Career Development," at the Southern Sociological Society Annual Meeting in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. In the presentation, she argued that liberal arts majors prepare students better for careers than vocational majors and discussed her Sociology of Careers course as an example of how to incorporate career development within a liberal arts framework.
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.