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Emily Contois

Emily Contois is a PhD candidate in American Studies at Brown University, where her research explores food, health, the body, and identities in the everyday American experience and popular culture. She holds an MPH focused in Public Health Nutrition from UC Berkeley and an MLA in Gastronomy from Boston University. Her dissertation, “The Dudification of Diet,” examines masculinity, food, and the body in contemporary U.S. media. She blogs at emilycontois.com and tweets @emilycontois.

Canned Food History: A Conversation with Anna Zeide

Emily Contois
Science & Medicine
Recently, I had my students in Food in American Society and Culture try their hand at drafting dietary guidelines. While every group recommended consuming fruits and vegetables, one group specifically called...

Not a Day for Salads: The Football Food Rules of the Super Bowl

Emily Contois
Arts & Culture, Politics, Sociology
Super Bowl LII will soon be upon us, along with its super-sized spread of snacks, an American meal as iconic as Thanksgiving. Matching debates over what to serve on the fourth Thursday in November, food rules...

Real Men & Real Food: The Cultural Politics of Male Weight Loss

Emily Contois
Science & Medicine
This essay originally appeared on Nursing Clio. When Weight Watchers first launched an online program “customized just for guys” in 2007, one of their advertisements proclaimed, “Real men don’t...
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