Kenneth Allan

Kenneth Allan received his PhD in sociology from the University of California, Riverside (1995), and is currently Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG). Before moving to UNCG, he directed the Teaching Assistant Development Program at the University of California, Riverside, and coedited Training Teaching Assistants, 2nd edition (1997), published by the American Sociological Association. In addition to teaching classical and contemporary theory at UNCG, Allan also supervised the department's iSchool program, which offered online introduction to sociology classes to high school students across North Carolina; and he regularly teaches graduate pedagogy courses. Allan’s research areas include theory, culture, and the self. He has authored several works in the area of theory, including textbooks covering classical and contemporary theory, as well as The Meaning of Culture: Moving the Postmodern Critique Forward, and A Primer in Social and Sociological Theory: Toward a Sociology of Citizenship. His current projects include a social history of American individualism, a sociological analysis of consciousness and self, as well as a novel based on the life of his father.