Academic Articles
(*Graduate student collaborator)
Ballif, Edmée, MacKendrick, Norah. 2026. Milk matters: the social imaginaries of plant milks in children’s diets. Agriculture and Human Values (Online First).
Field, Robert D., Hiren Jethva, Pamela A. Wales, Tempest McCabe, Sarah B. Henderson, Olivia E. Clifton, Konstantinos Tsigaridis, Douglas Morton, Norah MacKendrick, et al. 2026. “A Fire-Driven Shift in Canadian Air Quality Concerns Mirrors Trends in the US.” Earth’s Future 13(12): e2025EF007041. (Online First)
MacKendrick, Norah, Lee, Seungyun*, Choi, Hanee*, and Rivera Ramos, Marina*. 2025. “From invisible threat to social problem: media framing of particulate matter in an era of intersecting crises.” Environmental Sociology, 1–15. (Online First)
Ward, Jeremy K., Gauna, Fatima, Deml, Michael, MacKendrick, Norah, and Patrick Peretti-Watel. 2023. Diversity of attitudes towards complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and vaccines: A representative cross-sectional study in France. Social Science and Medicine, 328: 115952.
Tormos-Aponte, Fernando, Phil Brown, Shannon Dosemagen, Dana R. Fisher, Scott Frickel, Norah MacKendrick, David S. Meyer, and John N. Parker. 2023. “Pathways for Diversifying and Enhancing Science Advocacy.” Science Advances 9(20): eabq4899.
MacKendrick, Norah and Hannah Troxel.* 2022. Like a Finely-Oiled Machine: Self-Help and the Elusive Goal of Hormone Balance. Social Science and Medicine. 309: 115242.
Hayes, Endia* and Norah MacKendrick. 2022. ““Leave No Stone Unturned”: Sustainable Belonging and Desirable Futures of African-American Food Imaginaries.” Gastronomica: The Journal of Food Studies. 22 (2): 64–74.
Shepherd, Hana, Norah MacKendrick, and Cristina Mora. 2020. Pandemic Politics: Political Worldviews and COVID-19 Beliefs and Practices in an Unsettled Time. Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World. Vol 6: doi:10.1177/2378023120972575.
MacKendrick, Norah and Teja Pristavec*. 2019. Between careful and crazy: The emotion work of feeding the family in an industrialized food system. Food, Culture and Society. 22(4): 446-463.
MacKendrick, Norah and Kate Cairns. 2019. The polluted child and maternal responsibility in the US environmental health movement. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. 44(2): 307-332.
MacKendrick, Norah. 2017. “Out of the labs and into the streets: Scientists get political.” Sociological Forum. 32(4): 896-902.
MacKendrick, Norah and Lindsay Stevens*. 2016. ‘Taking Back a Little Bit of Control’: Managing the Contaminated Body through Consumption. Sociological Forum 31(2): 310-329.
MacKendrick, Norah. 2014. Foodscape. Contexts. 13(3): 16-18.
MacKendrick, Norah. 2014. More work for mother: Chemical body burdens as a maternal responsibility. Gender & Society 28(5): 705-728.
Cairns, Kate, Josée Johnston and Norah MacKendrick. 2013. Feeding the 'organic child': Mothering through ethical consumption. Journal of Consumer Culture 13(2): 97-118.
MacKendrick, Norah. 2010. Media framing of body burdens: Precautionary consumption and the individualization of risk. Sociological Inquiry 80(1): 126-149.
(*Graduate student collaborator)
Ballif, Edmée, MacKendrick, Norah. 2026. Milk matters: the social imaginaries of plant milks in children’s diets. Agriculture and Human Values (Online First).
Field, Robert D., Hiren Jethva, Pamela A. Wales, Tempest McCabe, Sarah B. Henderson, Olivia E. Clifton, Konstantinos Tsigaridis, Douglas Morton, Norah MacKendrick, et al. 2026. “A Fire-Driven Shift in Canadian Air Quality Concerns Mirrors Trends in the US.” Earth’s Future 13(12): e2025EF007041. (Online First)
MacKendrick, Norah, Lee, Seungyun*, Choi, Hanee*, and Rivera Ramos, Marina*. 2025. “From invisible threat to social problem: media framing of particulate matter in an era of intersecting crises.” Environmental Sociology, 1–15. (Online First)
Ward, Jeremy K., Gauna, Fatima, Deml, Michael, MacKendrick, Norah, and Patrick Peretti-Watel. 2023. Diversity of attitudes towards complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and vaccines: A representative cross-sectional study in France. Social Science and Medicine, 328: 115952.
Tormos-Aponte, Fernando, Phil Brown, Shannon Dosemagen, Dana R. Fisher, Scott Frickel, Norah MacKendrick, David S. Meyer, and John N. Parker. 2023. “Pathways for Diversifying and Enhancing Science Advocacy.” Science Advances 9(20): eabq4899.
MacKendrick, Norah and Hannah Troxel.* 2022. Like a Finely-Oiled Machine: Self-Help and the Elusive Goal of Hormone Balance. Social Science and Medicine. 309: 115242.
Hayes, Endia* and Norah MacKendrick. 2022. ““Leave No Stone Unturned”: Sustainable Belonging and Desirable Futures of African-American Food Imaginaries.” Gastronomica: The Journal of Food Studies. 22 (2): 64–74.
Shepherd, Hana, Norah MacKendrick, and Cristina Mora. 2020. Pandemic Politics: Political Worldviews and COVID-19 Beliefs and Practices in an Unsettled Time. Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World. Vol 6: doi:10.1177/2378023120972575.
MacKendrick, Norah and Teja Pristavec*. 2019. Between careful and crazy: The emotion work of feeding the family in an industrialized food system. Food, Culture and Society. 22(4): 446-463.
MacKendrick, Norah and Kate Cairns. 2019. The polluted child and maternal responsibility in the US environmental health movement. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. 44(2): 307-332.
MacKendrick, Norah. 2017. “Out of the labs and into the streets: Scientists get political.” Sociological Forum. 32(4): 896-902.
MacKendrick, Norah and Lindsay Stevens*. 2016. ‘Taking Back a Little Bit of Control’: Managing the Contaminated Body through Consumption. Sociological Forum 31(2): 310-329.
MacKendrick, Norah. 2014. Foodscape. Contexts. 13(3): 16-18.
MacKendrick, Norah. 2014. More work for mother: Chemical body burdens as a maternal responsibility. Gender & Society 28(5): 705-728.
Cairns, Kate, Josée Johnston and Norah MacKendrick. 2013. Feeding the 'organic child': Mothering through ethical consumption. Journal of Consumer Culture 13(2): 97-118.
MacKendrick, Norah. 2010. Media framing of body burdens: Precautionary consumption and the individualization of risk. Sociological Inquiry 80(1): 126-149.
