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Assistant Professor
Sociology
Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Minor
Contact
Office
Ebenezer D. Bassett Hall
317-10
Tuesday
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Wednesday
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Thursday
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Or by appointment
Biography
Dr. Ashley Green joined the Department of Sociology at 91精品 in Fall 2023. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of South Florida in 2023 and her M.A. in Women's Studies from San Diego State University. She has previously worked in student affairs doing Women's and LGBTQ+ programming and has been involved in activism centering LGBTQ+ youth experiences.
Dr. Green's research examines LGBTQ+ women's experiences of place and community. She has published work in the academic journals The Sociological Quarterly and Symbolic Interaction, as well as a number of edited collections, including The Oxford Handbook of Symbolic Interactionism. She has also served as a guest editor for the Journal of Lesbian Studies.
Dr. Green employs an active learning approach in the classroom. She is affiliated with the Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies (WGSS) program.
Education
Areas of Expertise
LGBTQ+ Studies, Gender, Sexuality, Social Movements, Space and Place, Urban and Rural Sociology, Digital Sociology, Qualitative Methods
Publications, Research & Presentations
PUBLICATIONS
Green, Ashley. 2025. 鈥溾業 Don鈥檛 Know Where the Lesbians Are鈥: LGBTQ+ Bars and Women鈥檚 Experiences of Community in 91精品 Florida.鈥 The Sociological Quarterly. Available early online.
Crawley, S.L, and Ashley Green. 2024. 鈥淔rom Butch and Femme Lesbians to Non-binary and Queer Women: Intergenerational Shifts from In-person Places to Digital Spaces.鈥 in Queering Desire: Lesbians, Gender and Subjectivity edited by R贸is铆n Ryan-Flood and Amy Tooth-Murphy. London: Routledge.
Crawley, S.L. and Ashley Green. 2023. 鈥淕ender and Embodiment as Negotiated Relations and Resistance.鈥 in Oxford Handbook of Symbolic Interactionism, edited by W. Brekhus, T. DeGloma, and W. Force. New York: Oxford University Press.
Soroka, Yuliia, S. L. Crawley, Olga Dzyubac and Ashley Green. 2022. 鈥淧erverts or Heroes in The Post-Socialist 鈥淐old War:鈥 Formula Stories of Lesbian/Bisexual/Queer Women and Transgender People in Ukrainian Media.鈥 Symbolic Interaction 46(2): 133-158.
Green, Ashley. 2019. 鈥淏y Definition They're Not the Same Thing: Analyzing Methods of Meaning Making for Pansexual Individuals.鈥 In Expanding the Rainbow: Exploring the Relationships of Bi, Pan, Queer, Ace, Intersex, Trans, Poly, and Kink People, edited by B. Simula, A. Miller, and J.E. Sumerau. Boston, MA: Brill/Sense. Print.
Green, Ashley, Mary Kasik, and Esther Rothblum. 2015. 鈥Review of Coming Out: The New Dynamics.鈥 Journal of Homosexuality 62(5): 683-685.
Awards & Grants
CCSU AAUP Research Grant (2025)
CCSU Curriculum Development Grant (2025)
ASA Section on the Sociology of Body and Embodiment Best Article Award鈥擧onorable Mention for 鈥淕ender and Embodiment as Negotiated Relations.鈥 (2023)
Spencer Cahill and Donileen Loseke Outstanding Dissertation Proposal Award (2021)
USF Sociology鈥檚 Distinguished Teaching Award (2019, 2020, 2022)
Courses Taught
Soc 110: Introduction to Sociology
Soc 208: LGBTQ+ Communities
Soc 212: Race, Class, and Gender
Soc 305: Social Movements and Collective Action
Soc 306: Social Construction of Sexualities
Soc 412: Qualitative Analysis
Soc 478: Special Topics: LGBTQ+ Experiences of Space and Place