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Warm congratulations to Megan Dean, MA, who ably defended her Master’s thesis “When Knowing Better is Not Enough: Experiencing Bodies, Feminist Critique, and Foucault” on April 24. Megan leaves us to return to hometown Halifax. She will be much missed. My research focuses on stubborn beliefs, particularly women’s beliefs about their bodies. I am interested…

My dissertation, “Stigma and the Politics of Biomedical Models of Mental Illness,“ involves a critical analysis of the deployment of biomedical models of mental illness as a means of targeting stigma. Drawing from philosophical, clinical, sociological, and activist literatures, I argue that “the stigma of mental illness,” when conceptualized within a biomedical framework, functions to 1)…