| Affiliation: | 1. Purdue University;2. Alice Pawley is an assistant professor in the School of Engineering Education and an affiliate faculty member in the Women's Studies Program at Purdue University. Dr. Pawley has a B.Eng. in Chemical Engineering from McGill University, and an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering with a Ph.D. minor in Women's Studies from the University of Wisconsin‐Madison. She is co‐PI on Purdue University's ADVANCE initiative, through which she is incorporating her work on metaphors into better understanding current models of women's underrepresentation in the context of Purdue, and creating new models via institutional ethnography. Her research focuses on using the metaphor of a boundary as a tool to better understand how faculty determine what counts as engineering, and to identify how engineering might be understood as a gendered discipline. |
