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Jacqui Gingras

Dr. Jacqui Gingras

Professor
EducationBSc (University of British Columbia), MSc (University of Alberta), PhD (Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia, Curriculum and Instruction)
OfficeJOR-308
Phone416-979-5000 x557726

Status: 

On sabbatical from Jan-Dec 2025 

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 am the founding editor of the Journal of Critical Dietetics, (opens in new window)  an open-access, peer-reviewed journal.

Websites:

torontomu.academia.edu/JacquiGingras (external link, opens in new window) 

ORCID iD iconorcid.org/0000-0001-8854-6574 (external link, opens in new window) 

Courses:

Graduate Program Membership:

  • Communication & Culture

Community & Professional Service:

  • I serve as Secretary on the TMU Faculty Association (TFA)
  • I am the Chair of the Equity Sub-Committee for the Communication and Culture Graduate Program
  • I ran as a New Democrat in the 2015 federal election

Recent and Selected Publications:

Gingras, J. and L. Aphramor. 2022. "Still dreaming after all these years that dietetics be (made) relevant" in Queering nutrition and dietetics: LGBTQ+ reflections on food through art (external link, opens in new window)  (pp. 210-216), edited by P. Joy & M. Aston. New York: Routledge.

Gingras, J. and J.J. Stranz. 2022. "The magical thinking that permits anti-fat experts to fight fat stigma while also fighting fat" in Fat Studies in Canada: (Re)mapping the field (external link, opens in new window)  (pp. 146-170), edited by A. Taylor, K. Ioannoni, C. Evans, R. Bahra, A. Scriver, & M. Friedman. Toronto: Inanna Publications.

Friedman, M. and J. Gingras. 2022. "'(How) can we speak of this?' Opening into the dark spaces of maternal regret, choice, and the unknowable" in Maternal Regret: Resistances, Renunciations, and Reflections (external link, opens in new window)  (pp.239-254), edited by A. O’Reilly. Bradford, ON: Demeter Press.

Friedman, M., K. Lichtfuss, L. Martignetti and J. Gingras. 2021. “It feels a bit like drowning”: Expectations and Experiences of Motherhood during COVID-19. (external link, opens in new window)  Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture & Social Justice 42(1).  

Brady, J., L. Potvin, A. Bombak, A. Kirkham, K-L. Fraser and J. Gingras. 2021. Fat food justice: Where fat studies meets food studies. (external link, opens in new window)  Fat Studies 12(1): 1-8.

Brady, J., J. Gingras and K. LeBesco. 2019. “Because…’obesity’: Reframing blame in food studies” in Feminist food studies: Exploring intersectionality (external link)  (pp. 103-122), edited by B. Parker, J. Brady, E. Power, & S. Belyea. Toronto: Women’s Press.

Gingras, J. and J. Brady. 2019. “The history of Critical Dietetics: The story of finding each other” in Critical dietetics and nutrition studies (external link)  (pp. 1-14), edited by J. Coveney and S. Booth. New York: Springer.

Gingras, J., P. Robinson, J. Waddell and L. Cooper (eds.). 2016. Teaching as scholarship: Preparing students for professional practice in community services. (external link)  Toronto, ON: Wilfrid Laurier Press.