Biography

Dr. Stephanie Nairn is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Central Florida. Her current and past research spans several areas in Sociology including medical sociology, science and technology studies, and consumption and food studies. She earned her doctoral degree from McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Her methodological expertise is in ethnographic/qualitative research. Some of her notable research accomplishments include completion of the first ethnographic exploration of the emergence of treatments for food allergy in North America, which was published in the Sociology of Health and Illness and Health: An interdisciplinary journal. She also led and completed a pan-Canadian study exploring how to improve opioid-related interventions for youth at risk of using opioids wherein she collaborated with experts in the fields of clinical psychology, psychiatry, sociology, and anthropology. This project culminated in publication of the first supplement to the Canadian Journal of Addiction. Her current research explores the emergence of “ontologically ambiguous food drugs” examining how and why new pharmaceutical foods are developed. Dr. Nairn’s teaching interests include medical sociology and the sociology of science, technology, and knowledge. She frequently teaches a modality of dance called GROOVE with kids and adults in the Orlando and greater Orlando communities.

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