Elizabeth Allan

Elizabeth Allan is professor of higher education at the University of Maine College of Education and Human Development, where she also directs the Hazing Prevention Research Lab. In addition, she is the founder and principal of StopHazing, a research group working on developing evidence-based, research-to-practice hazing prevention programs and initiatives. Allan’s research focuses on campus cultures and climates, including studies on classroom teaching, campus diversity and equity in addition to student hazing and its prevention. She is the author of two books, co-editor of a third, and has authored or co-authored more than 40 research-based articles and book chapters.

Allan’s application of critical and poststructural discourse perspectives to policy is the focus of numerous publications including her 2003 article in the Harvard Educational Review which was awarded the Outstanding Publication Award by the American Educational Research Association’s Division J. Her scholarship has also appeared in the The Journal of Higher Education, The Review of Higher Education, Innovative Higher Education, and The International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health.

Allan was the principal investigator for the landmark National Study of Student Hazing, which she is currently working to update. She has presented research about hazing for the U.S. Senate HELP Committee (July 2016) and at national conferences, institutes, and workshops. Dr. Allan’s comments and research have informed hundreds of news articles about hazing for numerous outlets including the Associated Press, The Chronicle of Higher Education,The New York Times, USA Today, National Public Radio, PBS, CNN, CBS, and others.