Presentations
2018
“Networked Anorexia: Pro-Ana Communities, Network Logic, and the
Internet,” Conference of the International Society for Media, Religion, and
Culture, University of Colorado Boulder
2018
“Uploading the Body; Embodying the Online: Bodies, Digital Space, and the Pro-Ana Movement,” Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Denver, Colorado
2018
“Pro-Ana: An Internet-Mediated ‘New Religious Movement’?” Craft
Critique Culture: Reckoning with Appetite Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference, The University of Iowa
2017
“Disrupting Secular Space: Veiled Female Bodies in Turkish Shopping
Malls,” Jakobsen Memorial Graduate Conference, The University of Iowa
2016
“Fashioning Identities: New Relationships with Fashion and Modesty in
Turkey,” Doing the Body in the 21st Century Conference, University of
Pittsburgh
2014
“Spreading the Religion of Thinness from California to Calcutta: A
Critical Feminist Postcolonial Analysis,” Concordia College
2014
“Fashioning Identities: New Relationships with Fashion and Modesty in ‘
Turkey,” Minnesota State University Moorhead
2008
“The Body’s Iron Cage and Its Relationship to the Protestant Ethic,”
Annual Upper Midwest Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, St. Paul, Minnesota
2007
“From California to Calcutta: Spreading the White-Western Devotion to
Female Thinness - A Feminist Post-Colonial Analysis,” Annual Meeting
of the American Academy of Religion, San Diego, California