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I'm an associate professor of sociology at Rutgers University. My research and teaching cut across environmental health, gender, food, consumer studies, and science & technology studies.
Much of my research explores the individualization of risk in the context of widespread environmental pollution. As science and technology reveal environmental contaminants in our air, water, soil and food, I find that women and mothers are held accountable for protecting children and future children from chemical exposures. As I show in my book, Better Safe than Sorry, this responsibility plays out in women's everyday lives, during pregnancy and breastfeeding, and as they shop for their children, prepare family meals, and manage their children's health. My new projects examine the social construction of hormones as risky technologies, and air quality and heat stress under climate change. With Dr. Edmée Ballif, I'm also exploring the normative and scientific arguments surrounding the place of plant milks in the diets of children and adults in Switzerland and the United States. I teach undergraduate and graduate courses in environmental health, social inequalities, gender, food studies, and research methods. If you're on Twitter, you can find me at: @nmackend |
Norah MacKendrick
Associate Professor Department of Sociology Rutgers University 26 Nichol Avenue New Brunswick, NJ 08901 |
