OUR PHD CANDIDATES ON THE JOB MARKET
FALL 2010 (C.V.'S ARE .PDF FORMAT)
HARMONY NEWMAN
DISSERTATION TITLE/TOPIC: "Constructions of Risk: Strategic Framing in Breastfeeding Discourses"
The author uses breastfeeding advocacy arguments and interpretations of those arguments to investigate the power dynamics between medical and governmental discourses and individual agency. Building on theories of public health movements, discursive power, and gender, this research examines the ways in which medical and governmental institutions and organizations construct or "frame" formula feeding as risky behavior and how mothers interpret, and possibly resisit, these arguments.
DISSERTATION ADVISOR: Laura Carpenter
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Sociology of Gender; Health; Social Movements; Motherhood; Qualitative Methods
E-MAIL: hnewman@tulane.edu
HarmonyNewmanCV.pdf
