About Alison I. Griffith Alison I. Griffith was a professor emerita in the Faculty of Education at York University. Books by Alison I. Griffith Simply Institutional Ethnography Creating a Sociology for People by (author) Dorothy E. Smith & Alison I. Griffith Under New Public Management Institutional Ethnographies of Changing Front-Line Work edited by Alison I. Griffith & Dorothy E. Smith