PROFILE

Elaine Power, Ph.D., is a professor of health studies at Queen’s University, Ontario.

Dr. Power has been doing research on food insecurity in Canada for 30 years. Her research has informed her critique of food banks as a policy response to food insecurity, and her advocacy for a guaranteed livable basic income. Dr. Power taught HLTH 101, Social Determinants of Health, for 15 years, and also teaches courses in food systems, fat studies, and qualitative research methods. She uses sociological theory and qualitative research methods to explore social, cultural, political, and symbolic aspects of food and health.

Dr. Power is the co-author of The Case for Basic Income: Freedom, Security, Justice (BTL, 2021) and co-author of Acquired Tastes: Why Families Eat the Way They Do (UBC Press, 2015). She is co-editor of Neoliberal Governance and Health: Duties, Risks and Vulnerabilities (MQUP, 2016); Feminist Food Studies: Intersectional Perspectives (Women’s Press, 2019); and Messy Eating: Conversations on Animals as Food (Fordham University Press, 2019).