Deana Hall is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology and student in
the Masters of Business Administration program at the University of Alberta. She
currently is specializing in the Sociology of Work, and has taught courses in
Sociology of Work, Statistics and Data Analysis, and Research Methods. Her
research interests involve the introduction of corporate culture into business
organizations and the parallels between corporate culture and other encompassing
belief systems, such as those found in alternative religions. In her master's
thesis, she examined how the Church of Scientology recruits medical
professionals through Management Consulting programs. Her current work examines
issues of work and family balance among self-employed women.
