As a feminist geographer and food studies scholar, my research sits at a thorny crossroad of timely and contested areas of study including feminist theorizing on pleasure and bodies, obesity discourse, and political ecologies of health. Areas of interest include: feminist geographies; critical health and nutrition; critical fat studies; the politics food and health; food studies; and gastronomy. Dissertation: three articles concerning the political and societal impacts of the new pharmaceutical arms race of weight loss drugs, namely Ozempic, and how they intersect with “geographies of pleasure”. This mixed-methods work, combining qualitative interviews alongside policy and discourse analyses, asks broadly: how and why is pleasure important—materially and politically—to individual and collective wellbeing and why is it not prioritized by those at the center of food-body-health interventions?

Faculty Advisor: Allison Hayes-Conroy
Curriculum Vitae