Alyssa Cazier

Graduate Professional Assistant

Sociology: inequity, gender, race, class, queer studies, feminist theory, institutional and organizational culture, community engaged research, systems change.

Alyssa is a doctoral student in the Public and Applied Sociology program and a Graduate Professional Assistant for Data and Educational Pathways in the Honors College at George Mason University. She received her B.A. in Sociology from George Mason University in 2024, where she engaged in undergraduate research with Sociology faculty and as an Honors College student. Her current research interests include exploring theoretical limitations of the gender binary on confronting institutional instances of inequality, including the workplace and higher education. With future research, she intends to contribute theoretical and practical approaches to the broader studies of organizational development and systems change using methodological techniques drawn from critical theory and community-based research practices.

Education

B.A. in Sociology - George Mason University, 2024

A.A. in Sociology - Tulsa Community College, 2022