Jessica Polzer, PhD
Associate Professor
Room 3237, Lawson Hall
519 661-2111 x81576
jpolzer@uwo.ca
Education
- MSc, PhD (Toronto)
- BA (Queen's)
Academic Appointments
- Department of Women's Studies and Feminist Research
Supervising Graduate Students
- Yes
Research Interests
- Sociology of health and illness
- Social theories of health, risk and the body
- Experiences of health and risks to health
- Social and ethical impacts of technologies in health
- Biotechnology, gender and medicalization
- Critical theories of health promotion
- Foucault, biopolitics and governmentality
Additional Information
Recent Publications
- Polzer J, Mancuso FV & Laliberte Rudman D. (2014). Risk, responsibility, resistance: Young women’s negotiations of identity and healthy citizenship in human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination narratives. Narrative Inquiry, 24(2), 281-308.
- Mancuso F & Polzer J. (2015). “It’s your body but…”: Young women’s narratives of declining human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination. Canadian Woman Studies: an Introductory Reader (3rd Ed.). Edited by Brenda Cranney and Sheila Mollory. Toronto: Inanna Press.
Research Affiliations
- Centre for Critical Qualitative Health Research, University of Toronto
- Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
Teaching Areas
- Social Determinants of Health
- Women and Health
- Biopolitics, Feminism and Health
- Qualitative Health Research
- Critical Social Science Perspectives in Health Promotion
Awards
- Illinois Distinguished Qualitative Dissertation Award, International Center for Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2006)