Sabrina Strings wins a Hellman Fellowship to complete a book on fat stigma
Sabrina Strings wins a Hellman Fellowship to complete a book on fat stigma
- July 11, 2017
- Sabrina Strings, sociology, in The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, July 11, 2017
Sabrina Strings, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of California,
Irvine was awarded a 2017-18 Hellman Fellowship so she can complete work on her book,
Thin, White & Saved: Fat Stigma and the Fear of the Big Black Body. … “In the book,
I show that race, religion, and immigration were critical to the development of an
anti-fat, pro-thin bias in the Western World,” Dr. Strings states.
For the full story, please visit https://www.jbhe.com/2017/07/sabrina-strings-wins-a-hellman-fellowship-to-complete-a-book-on-fat-stigma/
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