Bio

Alison Dahl Crossley is the Executive Director of the Clayman Institute for Gender Research, where she has been for the last ten years. She leads the Institute's strategic focus, operations, and engages partners at Stanford and beyond through academic and community relations. She manages the Institute’s programming and fellowship programs: faculty research fellows, postdoctoral research fellows, graduate dissertation fellows, and undergraduate internships. Crossley leads the Institute team and works with the Faculty Director to set the thematic focus of the Institute.

Crossley's books "Finding Feminism: Millennial Activists and the Unfinished Gender Revolution," (NYU Press, 2017) and more recently "Feminism in the United States: A Concise Introduction" (Routledge, 2024) analyze the contemporary feminist movement through an intersectional lens. She has published articles and chapters about social movements, online feminism, gender, and the continuity of the feminist movement. Her research has been covered by the New York Times, USA Today, and NPR.

Previously, Crossley was a postdoctoral fellow at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research. She earned her MA and PhD in Sociology with an emphasis in Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She received an MA in Media and Communications from the University of London, Goldsmiths College, and a BA in Women's Studies from Smith College (Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude, with Highest Honors).

Current Role at Stanford

Executive Director, Clayman Institute for Gender Research

All Publications

  • Feminism in the United States: A Concise Introduction Crossley, A. D. Routledge. 2024
  • Badass Feminist Politics: Exploring Radical Edges of Feminist Theory, Communication, and Activism (Book Review) CONTEMPORARY SOCIOLOGY-A JOURNAL OF REVIEWS Book Review Authored by: Crossley, A. 2023; 52 (5): 416-418

    View details for DOI 10.1177/00943061231191421a

    View details for Web of Science ID 001186359400001

  • Fighting for NOW: Diversity and Discord in the National Organization for Women (Book Review) CONTEMPORARY SOCIOLOGY-A JOURNAL OF REVIEWS Book Review Authored by: Crossley, A. 2020; 49 (6): 518–21

    View details for DOI 10.1177/0094306120963121m

    View details for Web of Science ID 000585610300018

  • Social Movements and Media (Book Review) MOBILIZATION Book Review Authored by: Crossley, A. 2019; 24 (2): 243–44

    View details for Web of Science ID 000510140200009

  • Feminists Reshaping Gender HANDBOOK OF THE SOCIOLOGY OF GENDER, 2ND EDITION Crossley, A., Nelson, L. K., Risman, B. J., Froyum, C. M., Scarborough, W. J. 2018: 549–59

    View details for DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-76333-0_40

    View details for Web of Science ID 000448565000040

  • Finding Feminism: Millennial Activists and the Unfinished Gender Revolution Crossley, A. D. New York University Press. 2017
  • FACEBOOK FEMINISM: SOCIAL MEDIA, BLOGS, AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES OF CONTEMPORARY US FEMINISM MOBILIZATION Crossley, A. D. 2015; 20 (2): 252-267

    View details for Web of Science ID 000361574200006

  • Feeling Women's Liberation (Book Review) GENDER & SOCIETY Book Review Authored by: Crossley, A. 2014; 28 (4): 643-645

    View details for DOI 10.1177/0891243214524021

    View details for Web of Science ID 000338995100012