Dr. Emily Contois is a scholar and teacher of media, food, and gender. She's currently writing a book on how the food, advertising, and media industries have constructed masculinities through food in the twenty-first-century United States. She examines case studies that attempted to create male consumers for products socially perceived as feminine, like diet sodas, yogurts, and commercial weight loss programs. Dr. Contois completed her PhD in American Studies at Brown University and holds three master's degrees: an MA in American Studies from Brown, an MLA in Gastronomy from Boston University and an MPH focused in Public Health Nutrition from UC Berkeley. She is the author of more than twenty-five peer-reviewed articles, chapters, reference entries, and reviews. Her work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, NPR, The Huffington Post, and Salon, among others. She serves on the boards of the Association for the Study of Food and Society and H-Nutrition. She also writes for Nursing Clio, blogs at emilycontois.com, and is active on social media at @emilycontois.
