Kristen Hardy
Instructor
Contact Information
Department:
Religion and Culture
Sociology
Fields:
- Alternative Medicine
- Human Rights
- Religion
- Social Issues
Areas of Expertise:
- Critical Animal Studies
- Fatphobia
- History of Medicine
- Mad Studies
- Sizeism
- Sociology of Medicine
- Weight Bias
Languages Spoken:
- English
Available To:
- Appear on radio or TV
- Provide comment to media
- Discuss research with industry, government, and others
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Kristen Hardy is a doctoral candidate, researcher, and university educator.
Her work explores relations between systems of power and marginalized subjects, with a focus on the pathologization of physical and mental diversity in science, medicine, and other sociocultural spheres.
Hardy’s research interests include the historical construction of human-nonhuman boundaries, of madness, and of fatness and fat bodies.
Media Expert