Journalist's Ph.D. Continues a Long Family Tradition
Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi is the fourth member of her family to earn a doctorate from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
On Nov. 11, University of Illinois at Chicago student Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi snagged her first New York Times byline. For an essay that examined the question “Is Fat Stigma Making Us Miserable?:”
Dr. Courtney Bailey, a media scholar in popular culture and an associate professor at Allegheny College in Pennsylvania, says that fat stigma intensified after 9/11, when Americans’ sense of vulnerability translated into increased animosity toward the fat body. “Think about what fat bodies signify culturally,” she said.
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