Professor of instruction in psychology, Northwestern University, Illinois, US

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Areas of expertise

Social and clinical psychology
Women’s studies
Women’s body image

Career

Northwestern University – Professor of instruction in psychology and director of the Body and Media Lab, since 2014
Loyola University Chicago – Instructor, department of psychology, 2004–2006

Education

Loyola University Chicago – PhD in social psychology, graduate concentration in women’s studies, 2004
Miami University – Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology, 1999
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign – Bachelor of Science in Psychology, Bronze Tablet Honors (top 2%), 1997

Awards and achievements

Award-winning psychology professor, including the Charles Deering McCormick University Distinguished Lectureship, Kappa Alpha Theta National Award for Outstanding Faculty Member, and Undergraduate Psychology Association Award for Excellence in Teaching

Appearances and publications in other media

Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women. HarperCollins Publishers, 2017.
TedX speaker at the University of Connecticut, video with over half a million views
Her work has appeared in numerous academic journals and at academic conferences.
Regularly interviewed by media outlets, including The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, The Atlantic, BBC, and HuffPost