Bio

Dr. Oswald received her dual PhD in in Social Psychology and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Penn State. Dr. Oswald’s program of research focuses broadly on liberation through a feminist lens, with specific areas of interest including: (1) liberating marginalized group members from health disparities through a focus on social determinants of health; (2) fat liberation and upward resistance among fat people; (3) abolitionist politics and liberation from carceral systems; and (4) sexual liberation, particularly liberating marginalized group members from systems of sexualized violence. 

 

In addition to this work, Dr. Oswald is interested in feminist methodologies, feminist philosophies of science, and feminist metascience, particularly in the context of the open science movement. Dr. Oswald’s research has been supported by funders including the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Relationship Researchers Interest Group, Women and Gender Equality Canada, the McCourtney Institute for Democracy, and the Connecticut Institute for the Brain and Cognitive Sciences.