Jennifer Brady

My broad interdisciplinary background informs my research interests which span critical, feminist perspectives of food, nutrition, eating, bodies, and expertise. I am particularly interested in the history and professionalization of dietetics and its forbearer, home economics, as well as health professionals’ roles as advocates in social justice and health equity. My work is primarily qualitative and includes oral history, phenomenology, autoethnography, collective biography, and the use of embodied methods, particularly cooking, as a mode of inquiry.