University of Virginia Sociology Department
556 Cabell Hall
P.O. Box 400766
Charlottesville, VA 22904
ap9cd@virginia.edu
434.924.6510
434.924.7028 (fax)
www.allisonpugh.com

Allison Pugh is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia, which she joined after earning her Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Pugh focuses on how inequality shapes childrearing, intimacy and care, paying particularly close attention to the relationships between families and the market. Her recent book, Longing and Belonging: Parents, Children and Consumer Culture (University of California Press), showed how children view mundane commodities like sneakers and Gameboys as essential currency in their "economies of dignity" at school and in the neighborhood, and how diverse parents respond to the consumer emergencies their children bring home. Current research includes a look at long-term intimate partnerships, and how the market shapes the ways people connect to each other. She is a 2008 awardee of the Sloan Foundation's Work-Family Career Development Grant.