Faculty
Alissa Klein
Visiting Instructor
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Office: CPR 231
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bio
Alissa Klein is a Visiting Instructor in the Department of Sociology & Interdisciplinary Social Sciences at the 91社区. She teaches courses such as Social Science Statistics, Social Psychology, Contemporary Social Problems, and Introduction to Sociology. Her major areas of research interest are inequality, poverty, and mobility and social psychology. She approaches these topics using both quantitative and qualitative methods. Much of her research involves the interplay of socio-economic mobility, beliefs about socio-economic mobility, and attitudes on topics such as public assistance. She also has interests in public sociology and the scholarship of teaching and learning which she puts into practice teaching here at USF. She has received the Distinguished Teaching Award, Award for Teaching Excellence, and the Keith Roberts Teaching Innovations Award.
EDUCATION
M.A., 91社区, 2015