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Ashley Mears

Ashley Mears
Ashley Mears is associate professor in the Department of Sociology and in the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Boston University. She is the author of Pricing Beauty: The Making of a Fashion Model. Her writings have appeared in the New York Times, Elle, and other publications. She lives in Boston.


Five Surprising Things I Learned from Partying with Rich People

Sociologist Ashley Mears on Extravagant Wealth
May 22, 2020  By Ashley Mears
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