Fat on Campus

Acknowledgments

Foreword by Rayven N. Morrow

Chapter 1: A Day in the Life

Chapter 2: Introduction to the Study

Chapter 3: Fat in the Classroom

Chapter 4: Fat in Student Organizations and Social Spaces

Chapter 5: Fat in Greek Life

Chapter 6: Fat in Residential Community Spaces

Chapter 7: Fat in University Health Centers and Campus Wellness Spaces

Chapter 8: Fat AND…: The Multiple Minoritized Identities Chapter

Chapter 9: Our Love Letters

Epilogue: Fat on Campus Website and Resources

About the Authors

Index

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Roshaundra L. Breeden

Roshaunda L. Breeden (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Higher Education Opportunity, Equity, and Justice in the College of Education at North Carolina State University. Her practice and research interests revolve around equity and justice for Black students, families, and communities; fat students; and first-generation and low-income learners.

Meg E. Evans

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Terah J. Stewart

Terah J. Stewart (he/him) is an Associate Professor of Higher Education and Student Affairs at Iowa State University. His research and writing focus on people, populations, and concepts in the margins of margins. Topics include sex work and erotic labor in higher education, fatphobia, sizeism, and anti-fat bias in higher education, antiblackness in non-Black communities of color and identity-based student activism.

Erin R. Weston

Erin R. Weston (she/her) is an Assistant Director in the Office for Student Success and Achievement at the University of Georgia. With over two decades of experience in higher education, she has been nationally recognized as an advocate for first-year college students. Her professional journey spans roles in university housing, academic advising, first-year experience initiatives, academic coaching, and peer education programs. Erin's research interests include white racial identity development, anti-racism in higher education, and the experiences of fat college students. She earned her B.A. in History and M.Ed. in Higher Education Administration from Kent State University, and her Ph.D. in College Student Affairs Administration from the University of Georgia. Erin is passionate about advocating for equity in education and fostering environments where all students can thrive. Outside of her professional work, Erin enjoys engaging in community activism, reading, and completing jigsaw puzzles. She lives with her husband, Al, in rural Georgia, and stays involved in the lives of her college-aged children, Torin and Alan.

Rachel Wagner

Rachel Wagner (she/her) serves as an Associate Professor of Higher Education and Student Affairs in the Department of Educational and Organizational Leadership Development at Clemson University. The goal of her research is to understand how post-secondary environments can support human flourishing. Specifically, her scholarship centers critical and emancipatory perspectives of equity and social justice in higher education through proliferation of gender expansive practices and application of social justice tenets to student affairs praxis. Dr. Wagner lives, works, plays, and prays on the ancestral homelands of the Eastern Band of Cherokee and the Cherokee Nation, that were seized through diplomatic and military incursions by the US. As a fat scholar and former cook, she delights in juicy meals and juicier conversation.