Dr. Allison Wigen
Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinarity
My Fall 2026 office hours are:
M 1:30-5:30
Tu/Th 1:30-2:30, 4:30-5:30
And by appointment.
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Ph.D., Sociology, Boston University
M.Ed., Arts in Education, Harvard University, Graduate School of Education
B.A., Literary Arts, Brown University
Allison Wigen is an Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinarity at Truman State University. At Truman, she teaches in the Social Sciences and Human Inquiry department supporting programs in sociology and anthropology, history, and philosophy, as well as interdisciplinary minors including environmental studies, museum studies, and disability studies. Her interdisciplinary courses include Disaster Narratives (TRU) and Pop Culture and Creativity (JINS).
A sociologist by training, her interdisciplinary research interests include culture, work, environment, inequality, and social theory. Her dissertation and book project, Art at Work: Labor and Cultural Production in the Wake of Change, explores the relationship between labor and cultural production during times of social and environmental upheaval. Utilizing ethnographic, historical, and narrative methods, she examines how commercial fishermen’s work and artmaking have evolved amid the backdrop of environmental shifts spanning from the nineteenth-century Industrial Revolution to contemporary climate change.
Wigen’s academic work has appeared in Poetics, American Journal of Cultural Sociology, and Sociological Forum, and her cultural criticism has been published in Bright Lights Film Journal. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from Boston University, an Ed.M. in Arts in Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a B.A. in Literary Arts from Brown University.