Alyssa Lyons

Alyssa Lyons is a Lecturer and full-time Major Advisor in the Department of Sociology at Lehman College, City University of New York (CUNY). A Lehman alumna and former S.E.E.K student, she has taught courses such as Education and Society (SOC 235), Education and Inequality (SOC 336), and Global and Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Education and Society (SOC 335).

• PhD in Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center (2022)
• MA in Politics and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University

Her research focuses on education through the lenses of critical theories, race, gender, and sexuality, with current work examining parental engagement within frameworks of school abolition and liberatory politics. She also engages in informal academic communities like book clubs and explores suburban gothic media.