Dr. Rachel Allison
“Women’s World Cup Fandom: Identities, Expressions, and the Pursuit of Gender Equality”

April 17, 2023 (Monday), 1:00pm – 2:00pm
This is a remote-only event.
Zoom link: https://umn.zoom.us/j/92509778808?pwd=TldPYXlSTmlIWGFWZUVpWXpTbXFIdz09
Meeting ID: 925 0977 8808 | Passcode: vM9DA5
Host: Dr. Dunja Antunovic

Dr. Rachel Allison joined the faculty at Mississippi State University in 2014 after receiving her PhD from the Department of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is a scholar of gender and sport, and has focused primarily on the selling and marketing of women’s professional sport in the United States. She is the author of Kicking Center: Gender and the Selling of Women’s Professional Soccer, published in 2018 with Rutgers University Press. More recently, she received a FIFA Research Scholarship to study the perspectives and experiences of fans attending the 2019 Women’s World Cup.