Alison Frisella
MA/PhD Graduate Student
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Research Interests:
critical university studies; participant-based ethnography; abolitionist and decolonial feminisms
Biography:
Alison Frisella's research examines the complications and challenges of engaging in radical, anti-capitalist, and abolitionist work within the neoliberal university. Drawing on experiences organizing against the corporate restructuring of their undergraduate institution, Alison seeks to understand how student, faculty, and staff activists can carve out space for radical organizing in universities which are increasingly hostile to unmarketable forms of student activism.
Publications:
- Toraif, N. & Frisella, A. “Abolitionist Social Work.” Oxford Bibliographies in “Social Work”. Ed. New York: Oxford University Press, under review.
Toraif, N., Gondal, N., Paudel, P., & Frisella, A. (2023). From colorblind to systemic racism: Emergence of a rhetorical shift in higher education discourse in response to the murder of George Floyd. PLoS one, 18(8), e0289545.