Dr. Jacqui Gingras
Dr. Gingras is on leave in the Fall 2025 term.
Areas of Expertise
social health movements; health activism; healthism; weight stigma; fat studies; sociology of work/health professions; scholarship on teaching and learning; sociology of education; autoethnography
Research
My research explores social health movements, fat studies, critical pedagogies, and decolonization of higher education and health professions within the entanglements of colonial neoliberal economics and intersectional feminisms. I have published in the Fat Studies Journal, Journal of Sociology, and Critical Public Health. And, I was the founding editor of the an open-access, peer-reviewed journal.
Website
Courses
- SOC 503: Sociology of Education
- SOC 506: Health and Society
- SOC 558: Sociology of Bodies
- SOC 600: Globalization and Health
- SOC 808: Sociology of Food and Eating
Graduate Program Membership
Recent and Selected Publications
Brady, J., & Gingras, J. (Eds.). (forthcoming Fall 2025). Changing care: Advancing social justice in the health professions. Regina, SK: University of Regina Press.
Gingras, J., Aphramor, L., & Dark, K. (2024). . Studies in Social Justice, 18(4), 763-780. DOI:
Gingras, J. and L. Aphramor. 2022. "Still dreaming after all these years that dietetics be (made) relevant" in (pp. 210-216), edited by P. Joy & M. Aston. New York: Routledge.
Gingras, J. and J.J. Stranz. 2023. "The magical thinking that permits anti-fat experts to fight fat stigma while also fighting fat" in (pp. 146-170), edited by A. Taylor, K. Ioannoni, C. Evans, R. Bahra, A. Scriver, & M. Friedman. Toronto: Inanna Publications.
Brady, J., L. Potvin, A. Bombak, A. Kirkham, K-L. Fraser and J. Gingras. 2021. Fat Studies 12(1): 1-8.
Brady, J., J. Gingras and K. LeBesco. 2019. 鈥淏ecause鈥︹�檕besity鈥�: Reframing blame in food studies鈥� in (pp. 103-122), edited by B. Parker, J. Brady, E. Power, & S. Belyea. Toronto: Women鈥檚 Press.
Gingras, J. and J. Brady. 2019. 鈥淭he history of Critical Dietetics: The story of finding each other鈥� in (pp. 1-14), edited by J. Coveney and S. Booth. New York: Springer.
Gingras, J., P. Robinson, J. Waddell and L. Cooper (eds.). 2016. Toronto, ON: Wilfrid Laurier Press.