Elaine Power

Dr. Power is an associate professor at Queen’s School of Kinesiology & Health Studies and the recently appointed head of the Department of Gender Studies. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto and her research focussed on issues related to poverty, class, food and health. Drawing on food studies and the sociology of health, and using qualitative research methods, she explores social, cultural, political and symbolic aspects of food, eating, the body and health.