Her Ph.D. thesis, entitled Black, White and Green: A Study of Urban Farmers Markets, is a comparative examination of the ways that practices of food consumption become invested with political and cultural meaning in settings with vastly different race and class compositions. By positing access to healthy food as an environmental justice issue, she attends to the racialized and class-inflected natures of food production and consumption. As an ethnographer, Alison attempts to foster greater academic attention to the lived realities of marginalized communities.